Angry parents: “What do you have to do to get an English teacher?”

Almost a month after the start of the school year, this is the question being asked by the families of Grade 6 students waiting to start English lessons at Grand Selve College in Granada. That’s 4 hours a week wasted and many more hours spent constantly “just trying to stay as busy as we can”. A total of over 15 hours in an essential subject like English is behind the annual programme! Poor parents facing the wall of silence… There are many emails and calls to the rectorate and education inspector and when there is one answer, it is always the same “The DSDEN of Haute-Karonne acknowledges the receipt of your letter. We are doing everything. We can ensure that it is processed as quickly as possible. ” .or “Your request has been taken into account”, tell parents of concerned students who don’t know where to turn anymore! There are no concrete developments, no hiring and only the accumulation of lost hours continues. Education Minister Gabriel Attal’s claim of “a teacher in front of every student” is nothing but utopian. “There will be a teacher in front of every student,” the president promised during his televised interview from Nouméa on July 24, at the end of the “hundred days”. However, a week after the start of the school year, a teacher was still missing in “almost half of the schools in France,” France Info revealed in an investigation by Snes-FSU, the main teachers’ union. Weeks pass and the situation remains unchanged. Where have all these teachers gone who dream of imparting their knowledge to our dear little heads? Don’t want to pass it on to future generations? Parents who worry that their children’s futures have not already been compromised in an age where English is essential in education and work; And why are they not entitled to the same teachings as their companions?