Thousands of temporary teachers fear returning to precariousness due to the foreseeable rise in classroom ratios

The school year ends and while the teachers try to cope with “the worst week of the year”, fighting with the endless bureaucracy imposed by the administration and that accumulates especially at the end of the year, they begin to look askance at September. A specific group observes the future with suspicion after a course in which many teachers have had the door to employment opened wide by the pandemic; the doubling of classes due to COVID and the hiring of slightly less than 40,000 extra teachers that has made it possible has allowed interns, the most precarious group among teachers, who usually alternate more or less long substitutions with periods of unemployment, work this 2020-2021 more and better than ever.

This is how interim teachers live: “In 10 years I have gone through 24 schools”

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