When his computer screen soberly showed, in early July, that he was ” admitted “ In history and geography courses, Bastien felt a “deep relief”. An uncontainable pride as well. That of having passed a demanding competition, which required five years of study, two of them of intensive preparation, to be able to practice the profession for which ” dream ” since the end of high school. Since then, despite the supervised internships he did in Master 2, “The pressure of competition has given way to another: will I be up to it?”says the 23-year-old, who requested anonymity, like all the people mentioned.
He trusts that he “I thought about resigning several times” in the solitude of summer when neither the rectorates nor the establishments were available to answer all the questions that assailed him. But on Monday, September 2, he will make his first return as an intern at a university, in charge of six classes of 6my5my and 4my. “I am a teacher on paper, but I will only really be one if I know my students”He also believes “impatient than anxious at the idea of what [l]‘wait. “
Like him, around 20,000 of them join the national education system every year, while a deep recruitment crisis undermines the largest employer in the state: more than 3,000 positions were not filled at the end of the competition in 2024. Young recruits whose stories bear witness to the intellectual and human capacity and interest that school careers can arouse, to the motivation, even the passion that drives those who choose them, but also to all the difficulties and obstacles they encounter from the start of their journey – and which not all of them overcome.
Teachers or school staff, people who The world Respondents chose to become one through family inheritance, through “admiration” of teachers who marked their schooling, by affinity with youth, by “will to help”for the taste of transmission. Even if that means having to, at times, overcome the doubts of those around them. “At first, my parents wanted me to have a better-paid and better-regarded job.”Yasmine, 25, is confident. A schoolteacher at the Academy of Versailles, she will earn around 1,800 euros net per month for her first year and knows that the prospects for promotion are poor. “After five years of study, that’s not much. It’s clear that we don’t do this job for money… But I still think that there is nothing more beautiful than helping a child to progress, to overcome their difficulties.”she says.
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