“I am told there are not enough civil servants in National Education, but this is incredible demagoguery. The status of school teacher (…) is 24 hours a week” et “6 months of the year”said the former President of the Republic at the “Meetings of the Future” in Saint-Raphaël, in the Var, Friday evening.
“There are hundreds of thousands of competent, dedicated, wonderful teachers. And there are some who choose the job for the wrong reasons.”added the former leader of the UMP (right).
“We cannot afford to have a million teachers”said Nicolas Sarkozy, boasting of having reduced the number of civil servants by 150,000 when he was at the Elysée.
The boss of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure denounced on the social network “dare to say that there are too many teachers when our children are often far too many per class”.
The PS mayor of Montpellier and professor of history and geography Michaël Delafosse judged “consternants” these words while “teachers need consideration”to be “supported in the face of all attempts to destabilize secularism, in the face of violence”asking that we “stems the spiral of downgrading by ensuring adequate remuneration”.
MoDem deputy from Doubs Laurent Croizier suggested that the ex-president go to work “a week in a nursery school”. “Your words are abysmally misunderstood. They contribute to the crisis in the attractiveness of the teaching profession. For our children, choose education rather than contempt from teachers”he added.
“Intolerable”the first primary union FSU-SNuipp was indignant. Nicolas Sarkozy “insults the educational community” and through them “the students and parents of students he despises”estimated its spokesperson Guislaine David.
“Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy, the school teachers are annoying you and the 800,000 teachers”reacted for its part the collective Les Stylos Rouges. This group, which wants to bring forward the demands of National Education agents, also makes irony about the numerous trials initiated against the former head of state.
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