The former president was invited to the Rencontres de l'Avenir in Saint-Raphaël, Friday November 8, 2024. His outing on teachers who are demanding hiring and better pay, while they would be working “24 hours a week, six months a year”, made teachers and politicians jump.
Friday November 8, Nicolas Sarkozy was in Saint-Raphaël, in the Var, for the Rencontres de l'Avenir. During this event, various personalities from the intellectual, economic and political world are invited to deliver their thoughts and reflections on the world during a series of conferences. During his conference, broadcast on BFMTV, the former President of the Republic attacked the “implausible demagoguery” of some teachers.
If he recognizes that “It’s a tough job.”that it is necessary “prepare lessons and correct copies”, Nicolas Sarkozy attacked teachers who are demanding more: “I am told that there are not enough civil servants in National Education. The status of school teacher is 24 hours a week, six months of the year, between vacations and weekends. ends”he said. He then estimated that if the teaching staff was composed of “hundreds of thousands of competent, dedicated and wonderful teachers”others “choose the job for the wrong reasons.”
“Shame on Nicolas Sarkozy”
An outing which caused a lot of reaction on social networks. “A former president who spits in the face of thousands of kindergarten teachers… So yes, coming from him it is not surprising but through those who teach it is the students and the parents of students who he despise”fumed Guislaine David, general secretary of the FSU-Snuipp teachers' union, on her X account. “I'm a middle school French teacher, I'm always swamped with papers, I have students in the middle of a teenage crisis who aren't always well-disposed, but at no time do I envy my kindergarten colleagues for their working conditions. Support for them, and shame on Sarkozy”, declared another teacher from the Snes-FSU union.
The tirade also caused a reaction in the ranks of the National Assembly. “Go and spend even just one week in a nursery school, Mr. Sarkozy!”launched MoDem deputy Laurent Croizier. Olivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist Party, for his part pointed out the “contempt” from the former president: “And dare to say that there are too many teachers when our children are often far too many per class”, he reacted on his account. Nicolas Sarkozy had in fact, during this same conference, assured that the State had not “can’t afford to have a million teachers” and had assumed to be the only one, among “all presidents of the Republic since 1958”to have eliminated 155,000 civil servant positions.
