Louise Sallé, edited by Ophélie Artaud 06:57, August 30, 2022

Three days before the start of the school year, 3,000 contract workers are preparing to meet their students, after express training.

A method which should make it possible to compensate for the lack of teachers but which worries parents and professionals.

Florence Comte, secretary of the national union of directors, returned to the subject at the microphone of Europe 1.

The school holidays officially end tomorrow evening.

Back to school is Thursday.

For teachers, on the other hand, the alarm clock will ring this Wednesday morning.

This is a first for many of them: 3,000 contract workers have been hired for this school year.

Teachers trained in four days with a worrying method.

“We put them in complicated situations”

"We find that already, it still discredits the profession to say that we can train adults to be in front of students after four days. We still put them in complicated situations, them and the students", regrets Florence Count, headmistress in the Var and secretary of the national directors' union.

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"The tenured teachers see the arrival of contract teachers with a good eye. In any case, they don't hold it against them at all. We are full of good will to help them, but we are not teacher trainers We are going to do what we can in the field while having, for eight directors out of ten, also a one-class workload, i.e. between one and four days a week. So we are going to do what we can and they too. But the contract workers have absolutely nothing to do with it, "insists the secretary of the National Union of Directors.