Anne Guéry and Stéphanie Gourronc have the island of Groix under their skin. One moved there with her family in 2019. The other was born there 49 years ago. In spring 2022, in the middle of the presidential campaign, the two women exposed to Télégramme their paradoxical situation of the moment: school teachers in the Paris region for years, they had, both of them, argued for the availability of Education national, failing to obtain the so precious transfer to Brittany.
Anne Guéry could not imagine having to go back one day to Colombes, Asnières or Gennevilliers. Mother of four children, she mainly took care of her four-month-old twins, but she “cruelly missed teaching and the classroom,” she said. Long a school director in Stains (Seine-Saint-Denis), Stéphanie Gourronc, for her part, had temporary contracts as a postwoman, carer or building painter on the island. “I also had a six-month contract at the tourist office. I was full of optimism at the time. »
I took the exam again privately. It cost me in salary, in effort, in humility. But the gamble paid off.
One in the private sector, the other back in Paris
Two years later, the situations of the two forty-year-olds have evolved significantly. Anne Guéry still lives in Groix and is even happy to teach there. But it moved from public to private. “I ended up resigning from National Education and I took the competition for the certificate of aptitude for teaching in private education schools, in Morbihan. It cost me in salary – I lost my ranks -, in effort, in humility. But the gamble paid off. »
Since September 2023, Anne Guéry has taught at the Saint-Tudy de Groix school complex with the status of trainee teacher. She is hopeful of staying there next year. “I was incredibly lucky not to have to go to the continent and I rejoice about it every day,” she assures. I feel happy and in my place. »
For Stéphanie Gourronc, the island parenthesis did not last, however. “I had availability valid until my youngest son was 12 because I was raising him alone. On his birthday in January 2023, I had to reposition myself. » If her two children remained (one with her grandparents, on the island, the other at a boarding school, in Lorient), the teacher returned to service in Seine-Saint-Denis the following spring. After Bondy last year, she finished a full school year in Noisy-le-Sec. “I’m going back to my beginnings, with CPs. But there is so much to do. I love this job and I don’t get bored. »
I am attached to public service. I tell myself that after a while, my seriousness and my tenacity will end up paying off!
“I live with friends”
Stéphanie, however, still has the hope of a transfer to Morbihan. “I live with friends and I go back to Brittany for the school holidays only. I’m fine with it for now, but for how long? I am attached to public service. I tell myself that after a while, my seriousness and my tenacity will end up paying off! »
It also monitors, each year, the opening of new “profile positions” (PoP), with a different recruitment method. “Two years ago, neither Anne Guéry nor I were unfortunately selected for this system at Groix. It was a non-Island teacher who arrived at the Trinity school,” she recalls. The experience, she understands, only lasted a few months. Which saddens her even more today. “On sick leave, this person remains in their position and their replacement is assured,” informs the rectorate.
