4,000 fewer teaching positions: unions denounce a “bleeding”
“A real sangria”TO “public school baudillo” : The elimination of 4,000 teaching positions in the national education budget for 2025, mainly in nursery and primary schools, scandalized unions who were no longer convinced of the new minister’s first steps.
Rue de Grenelle justifies this drop in teaching positions by saying “the decrease in the number of students should accelerate with 97,000 fewer students at the beginning of the 2025 school year”.
The budget also provides for the financing of an additional 2,000 AESH (support for students with disabilities).
With a global drop of about 2,000 positions, national education generates most of the job cuts for State officials and their operators (2,201 in total).
In the detail of fewer teaching places, the first public level (kindergarten and primary school) is the most affected with a drop of 3,155 places. The public secondary level (middle and high schools) lost 180 places, the private primary level 660 and finally the private secondary level 40, according to the ministry.
Hardly had the budget been revealed than the teachers unions, already little reassured by the lack of experience of the new minister Anne Genetet, let their anger explode.
Guislaine David, general secretary of FSU-Snuipp, the first nursery and primary school union, denounced a “public school baudillo” on the social network “But where is school given priority? »asked.
“A monstrous bloodshed for National Education”, “an absolute shame”lamented Snalc in a press release.
Sophie Vénétitay, president of Snes-FSU, the first secondary school union, estimated “Michel Barnier sacrifices public schools. Unworthy and irresponsible! »
“4,000 positions is huge. We are literally face to face, it is a scandal.”Catherine Nave-Bekhti, general secretary of CFDT Education, protested again to AFP.
The unions periodically warn that the declared objective of putting a teacher in charge of each class is far from being met and insist on the need to make the profession more attractive, while more than 3,000 positions have not been filled in public competitions. and private teachers this year.
Rebel leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon also reacted strongly to X: “4,000 fewer positions in Education. After spreading misery, here is the organization of ignorance. “This budget is a calamity.”he protested.
“And at the same time as these cuts, we are asking kindergarten or elementary school teachers to set a goal of including students with disabilities. They tell us about 2,000 more positions in the AESH but we know very well that no one wants to practice this profession if it is not sufficiently remunerated”Nave-Bekhti noted.
Last year, the 2024 finance bill provided for the elimination of 2,500 teaching positions, also justified by the demographic decline, estimated by the ministry at 83,000 fewer students at the beginning of the 2024 school year, in application of the so-called reform of education. “knowledge shock”Gabriel Attal had decided to cancel the elimination of the 484 positions planned in secondary education and create 574.
These additional teaching positions should make it possible to prioritize the creation of level groups in French and mathematics. Previously, the State had eliminated 1,500 positions in 2023, nearly 2,000 positions in 2022.
The Education budget for 2025 amounts to 63 billion euros, generally stable compared to 2024.
The ministry highlights an increase in “834 million euros” compared to the 2024 budget that was in place when Anne Genetet, appointed in September, took office. But this increase is actually more modest if we compare it with the original budget voted a year ago, because in the meantime the allocation was reduced by about 700 million euros in February. The ministry assures that “the school will continue to be the first budget of the nation”.
