The teaching unions reacted very quickly and above all regret a sudden change in the middle of the school year which requires ” start from scratch ” with a new manager. With the departure of Gabriel Attal, national education, the first state budget, the country’s largest employer, a ministry ensuring the education of 12 million children and grappling with a deep recruitment crisis which leads to cascading tensions for the school system, will have its fourth minister since 2022 (Jean-Michel Blanquer, minister throughout the first five-year term of Emmanuel Macron, Pap Ndiaye, Gabriel Attal, and his successor, therefore). The new Prime Minister will thus have been one of the most ephemeral tenants of Rue de Grenelle in the Ve Republic. Guislaine David, head of the first primary school union, SNUIPP-FSU, said: “annoyed” by the way in which they are treated “the Ministry of National Education and therefore all the staff”.
Beyond this incompatibility between “school time”, necessarily long, and that of political careers, several unions have also castigated Mr. Attal’s record, which is essentially due to announcements of projects which have no no concrete translations at the moment.
“The minister made a lot of announcements, some of which were gimmicky, without addressing the daily concerns of colleagues such as salaries, overcrowded classes, lack of replacements, inclusion without means…list Sophie Vénétitay, general secretary of SNES-FSU, the first secondary school union. In the end, we have the feeling that national education has mainly served as a springboard, and we wonder how many more ministers will be needed before we can assess the state of schools today. »
Moduba