3000 teachers pulled out of the hat: the disturbing express mobilization of replacements to calm high school anger

So replacement teachers would be paid to do nothing? This is what a large part of public opinion retained from the intervention of the Minister of Education, Thursday evening, at the end of the fourth day of high school protests.

By announcing to the 8 p.m. news on TF1 that he was going to assign “several thousand” replacement teachers “in the coming hours” to the establishments most in difficulty, Édouard Geffray surprised parents and the educational community.

If he has finally provided a concrete and immediate response to one of the demands of the high school student movement which has been agitating France for two weeks, his solution ultimately questions the sudden ability to find teachers where, all year round, we are looking for them. At the start of the school year in September, at least one teacher was missing in 65% of middle and high schools, according to the principals' union SNPDEN-Unsa.