Louise Sallé 12:24 p.m., January 19, 2023

According to the unions, 65% of teachers are on strike in secondary education, 70% in primary education.

Working longer displeases many teachers who decided to make their anger heard on Thursday.

The reason ?

Managing a class over 60 requires too much energy. 

The striking teachers are very numerous this Thursday.

The majority union of the 1st degree, the Snuipp-FSU, has already announced 70% of strikers among school teachers.

42.35% in primary and 34.66% in secondary (colleges and high schools) according to the Ministry of National Education.

And it is mainly the decline in the starting age to 64 that fuels discontent.

Many teachers find it very complicated to manage a class beyond the age of 60, in particular because teachers today enter the labor market late, after a bac+5. 

Retirement at age 67 after a bac+5

64 is therefore often too young an age to benefit from a full pension, requiring 43 years of contributions.

For many teachers, it is necessary to aim for a retirement age of around 67, the age from which there is no longer a discount.

But for Mathurin, professor of history and geography, it is impossible to calmly approach the end of his career in these conditions.

"Under the current conditions, we have more and more students," he explains.

"And past 60, it's not possible to still be a good teacher," adds Mathurin. 

"Teachers can't take it anymore"

"That means that the last years of all teachers will be teachers who can't take it anymore, teachers who can't do their job anymore, who will simply rehash the same lessons because they don't will have more time for the necessary energy", he laments.

"It's impossible to keep renewing yourself again at that age."

As for the method of calculating the pension, it does not change with the reform.

Only the salary of the last six months of career is taken into account.