a week before the start of the school year, Pap Ndiaye visits a crisis unit

A Minister of Education who attempts to reassure, without howeverdeny the structural difficulties» and teachers’ unions which are sounding the alarm on the recruitment crisis and denouncing, as the only response, the use of contract teachers who are not trained in the profession. Will there be at the start of the school year “a teacher in front of each class, in all schools in France“, as stated since the beginning of July, Minister Pap Ndiaye? Reply on 1^er September, when the 12 million pupils of France will have found their way back to school. But also in the weeks and months to come, when the problems of replacements will arise, inevitably, at the rate of sick leaves.

A few days before his very first back-to-school press conference, expected on Friday, the very discreet successor to Jean-Michel Blanquer made a first trip to the recruitment crisis unit of the rectorate of Créteil on Tuesday. Announced this summer, these structures…