A group of students’ parents were promoted in France. court action for against the state lack of substitution teachers missing. The #onveutdesprofs platform launched this initiative to request the Government of Emmanuel Macron to take further action on the repeated dismissal of teachers who are not replaced. violates the right to education. “Our aim is not financial, but rather to get the State to respond to find a solution to this challenge,” Joyce Pitcher, one of the group’s lawyers, told Agence France-Presse (AFP). “Parents are totally helpless,” she added.
This group will present allegations before administrative court In June. The lawyer stated that they would first “start by reuniting families and counting the hours of absence with no substitutes.” Each family can make a claim to the State. compensation of 10 euros per hour for a lesson missed due to teacher withdrawal from school middle school And 50 euros in primary school. To this can be added some 500 euros for moral bias and to cover the final cost review classes. These resources do not bring an economic cost for families.
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Parents of this platform claim they are “very sorry” a chaotic school year and for broken promises. As acknowledged by Education Minister Pap Ndiaye in January, “15 million hours not compensated (…) in public education”. “Teachers have the right to be absent from education, due to illness … The problem is that it is not changed,” Pitcher told the “France Info” radio station.
This is the second year that the #onveutdesprofs platform will promote these cases. Out of 1,500 files opened last year Of these, 127 led to claims for compensation. in administrative courts. The problem of not replacing teachers is rooted in France – it also affects other European countries – and is related to a shortage of teachers.
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One of the sectors that suffer from the double salary scale in the neighboring country is teachers. A teacher’s early career salary has risen from 2.3 times the minimum wage in 1980 to 1.2 today. A loss of economic attractiveness This affects the difficulty of finding staff. So much so last year that attempts by some education administrations to recruit people who do not have teaching-related work as teachers through “quick dating” (10 or 15-minute quick calls) have sparked controversy.
Macron announced at the end of April an increase in teachers’ salaries between 100 and 230 euros. That’s a substantial increase, but less than the 10% promised during the presidential campaign a year ago, which could be negligible due to inflation. The government is also offering to increase teachers’ incomes by around 500 euros per month if they work overtime. Some of them will go to make up for the absence of classmates.