- According to the latest data from the Ministry of National Education dating from last Thursday, 55% of teachers were in attendance last week in primary school, and 60% of teachers in middle school.
- Some columnists have concluded that the teachers who stayed at home to do school at home were ill-intentioned.
- But the reality is quite different, because it is the health constraints of establishments, childcare, the physical vulnerability of some who explain the continuation of remote work for them.
A little music that turns to "prof bashing". For the past few days, several editorial writers have claimed that some teachers have deliberately decided not to return to class after the confinement is lifted. In an article published on Sunday, L'Opinion mentioned half of the teachers who "have not returned to school and a significant part of which would fall into the category of flanks." This Tuesday in the same title, in an editorial titled "Police officers, teachers: the Republic of untouchables", Nicolas Beytout hammered the point by writing that "if many teachers have been fully mobilized, a significant number of them do not has not shown all the eagerness required. "
Ditto in Les Echos this Tuesday, where Lucie Robequain lambasted "this half of teachers who deserted the classrooms, for more or less legitimate reasons" and who "rendered a great disservice to the other, who fulfilled his missions sometimes well beyond its prerogatives ”. Finally, on Monday on France Inter, Dominique Seux's column quoted the words of a minister who remained anonymous: "If the employees of mass distribution had been as courageous as the National Education, the French would have had nothing to eat" . A speech badly lived by the main stakeholders, notes Philippe Vincent, secretary general of the National Union of Management Staff of National Education (SNPDEN-UNSA): "They can not bear to be singled out as they fight since the month of March to get their students to work, even if it's difficult ”. Several teachers on Twitter reacted to this controversy.
I am one of the teachers who are not in class: my school is not open to students. What can I do about it? This is how I magnify the official statistics of lazy people.
- Françoise Cahen (@FCahen) June 9, 2020Health reasons that explain remote work
So what is it really about the situation on the ground? According to the latest data from the Ministry of National Education dating from last Thursday, 55% of teachers were in attendance last week in primary school, and 60% of teachers in middle school. The others pursuing the class from a distance. "Figures that have had to progress since, because high schools and colleges have been welcoming more students since Monday," underlines Philippe Vincent.
But contrary to popular belief, teachers who did not return to their establishments did not do so by choice or by personal comfort. Part of them stayed at home for medical reasons, confirms rue de Grenelle at 20 minutes , "either because they have weaknesses (cardiovascular history, diabetes, chronic respiratory pathology ...) and that they cannot not take the risk of contamination, either because they live with a vulnerable person ”. For its part, the SNUipp, the first primary union, puts forward the figure of 9% of teachers in schools who have not returned to class for medical reasons.
"We need a lot of distance teachers"
Another reason which explains why some stayed at home: the strict sanitary protocol which imposes very reduced manpower in the classes (15 pupils per group). “As a result, we don't need to mobilize all the teachers for so few students. Besides, in my college, the teachers provide a maximum of 50% of their face-to-face service, ”explains Philippe Vincent. "And we need a lot of distance teachers to be able to ensure pedagogical continuity," says rue de Grenelle.
Some teaching teams have also favored working at a distance so that their students are not even more penalized by the situation: “This is the case for teachers of prepas, who prefer to advance the program at a distance rather than giving two hours of lessons. from time to time in degraded mode ”, indicates Philippe Vincent.
"Many of them have to babysit"
Another reason for teachers not returning to the site and not the least: "Many of them must keep their children," says the ministry. Because for the moment, remember, only 1.8 million schoolchildren - out of a total of 6.7 million - have returned to school, but rarely on a full-time basis. In college, there are 600,000 out of 3.3 million. And if the older ones can keep up as best they can, the smaller ones need their parents, and those who are taken back to school are generally only taken up on fragments of days or a day here and there. . This family reason is duly checked by the administration, the teachers having to provide a certificate from the school explaining that the child cannot be taken care of.
It is therefore impossible to conclude that if a small proportion of children have returned to class, it is the fault of their teachers…
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