On October 3, she sent her application. It begins on October 7 and presents itself to the students on October 9.
But she barely has time to get her bearings before everything stops on November 4: it’s the start of the All Saints’ holiday for the students and the final exit for the retiree. “The day before classes start, the secretary sends me a note from Segec and the Province. I can’t be hired because French is not in severe shortage! And, icing on the cake, I will not be paid for the two weeks of lessons that I gave nor the two weeks of fall break that I spent preparing the lessons. And the students find themselves without a teacher! I’m disgusted!”she blurted fiercely.
“As a primary school teacher for 17 years, I see that the most rude and disrespectful children hold the power”
Titles in severe shortage
Concretely, a title in severe shortage allows you to turn to retired teachers. According to the list of functions in severe shortage for the 2024-2025 school year for the Walloon Brabant zone, courses in Spanish, French as a foreign language, Japanese, Dutch, philosophy and citizenship as well as science in language immersion (Dutch) are the most difficult to provide due to lack of available teachers. In secondary education, French is in short supply, the administration tells us. This makes it possible to recruit a retired professor up to the age of 67.
“These are stupid rules. We need to give management more leeway. As long as the person is available, has the necessary qualifications and is in good shape, why refuse? We don’t care about the children and the parents!”don’t get angry Chantal Morange.
The problem of the “parent king” worries teachers more and more
-“World of Absurdity”
The director assures her, the arrival of Chantal Morange was a “godsend” despite her research from the start of the school year in September. “That’s the problem. Despite messages on social networks and weekly consultation of the PRIMOWEB database, I couldn’t find anyone. declares the director, extremely frustrated. “I did not find a replacement, neither before nor after Ms. Morange. The students therefore spent almost 3 months in the study room and did not see the material.”
The only person available but refused for a question of etiquette which does not reflect the problem observed in the field, that does not work. “When you find a teacher (and a good one!), you can’t keep him on the pretext that he doesn’t teach in a discipline with a “severe” shortage, but just a “severe” shortage. The result is the same: there is no teacher!”reacts the director.
“We have the right teacher. Maybe the title is no longer in severe shortage, but then where are the teachers?”enrages Chantal Morange. “Welcome to the world of absurdity! There were exams to prepare for: CE1D for secondary 2.”
Fabienne, teacher, was retired… against her will: “I had planned to work for two more years”
