Teachers “in blur” of presidential campaign

less than three weeks of the first round, and a few days after the presentation by the president candidate of a “new pact” for their intention, many teachers report their doubts as to the newsletter to slip in the ‘urn, April 10.

by

The “Confidence” is shared in teacher circles – including in union ranks, in other words, among activists. Less than three weeks of the first round of the presidential election, on April 10, a “significant” fringe of teachers always hesitates on the newsletter to slip into the ballot box.

No worth it for other categories of the population, at the end of a campaign “to no such”, say observers from the political scene, who saw the war in Ukraine superimposed on the COVID-19 crisis, and substantive debates, on school as on other topics, find a relative echo.

A “late echo”, Temperates on the side of the FSU as CFDT or UNSA: since March 17 and the declination by Emmanuel Macron, in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis), From his “new pact with teachers”, the tone is mounted by a notch. “You have teachers who, during the Covid, were there, took care of your children, and then there are teachers, that existed, who disappeared,” said the candidate for his re-election in front of a parterre From journalists, to explain the new remuneration system (“to merit”, say his followers, “to the counterparty”, blow his detractors) that he would like to be able to establish at a second five-year.

“There is a break in the political discourse, analyzes sociologist Françoise Lantheaume. Since the beginning of the epidemic, we talked about teachers like first-line professionals, struggling with difficulties due to disorganization. of national education, but who ensured the continuity of the public service, and there, in favor of the campaign, the head of state passes the message that they would not be up to and remedy this by liberal shock therapy. It’s brutal! “

“Emmanuel Macron brought us back ten years back, time when another candidate, Nicolas Sarkozy, defended the” work more to win more “, reacts Sophie Venetitay, the Snes-Fsu union. But by choosing Talking to the opinion, parents more than teachers, and going to seek voice on the right [on the lands of the candidate LR, Valérie Pécresse, in particular], he takes the risk of cutting himself from the teachers. ” p>

In fact, on the ground, it is the teachers “disappointed”, “struck”, who give voice. “The first round is getting closer, and I rocked in doubt,” says Anne, 56 – including nearly thirty to teach in high school in the Academies of Créteil and Paris. Like all staff who agreed to talk about the ballot, she required anonymity. “We come out of three years of torment and forced-walking reforms,” ​​she said, and Macron, as all the candidates for the Elysée, announces still to put the school, without even taking the time of the Balance sheet … it’s exhausting. “

You have 67.65% of this article to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.

/Media reports.