A CSA poll for CNEWS, published this Thursday, September 1, back to school day, indicates that 62% of French people do not trust Pap Ndiaye as Minister of National Education and Youth. A challenged minister. 62% of French people show their concern about the commitments of the Minister of National Education and Youth Pap Ndiaye, according to a CSA poll for CNEWS made public on Thursday. With the start of the new school year approaching, 24% of those polled said that they “do not trust Pap Ndiaye at all”. They are also 38% “rather not” to place their trust in the minister. At the same time, 5% of French people surveyed give “totally” credit to the Minister of National Education against 33% “rather”. The youngest do not believe in it The detailed results of this survey show that the category of people with the least confidence in Pap Ndiaye as Minister of National Education is that of 18-24 year olds (with 70% of “no “). It is followed by 35-49 year olds and 50-64 year olds (both 63% of “no”) and finally by 25-34 year olds (62% unfavorable answers). Regarding the political proximity of those questioned, sympathizers of the Renaissance presidential party (ex-LREM) are those who trust the minister the most with 73% of “yes”. On the left, the results are rather mixed. Indeed, if the rebels and supporters of the radical left do not believe in Pap Ndiaye (respectively 68% and 66%), the socialists, they keep hope. They are 54% to trust the Minister of National Education. On the right side, the score reaches 92% unfavorable responses among Reconquest sympathizers. Similarly, supporters of the National Rally and Republicans say they have no faith in Pap Ndiaye (81% and 71%). A new year under tension Unlike the two previous years, the approximately twelve million students as well as teachers will not wear the mask this year, due to the lull on the Covid-19 front. However, the Minister of Education Pap Ndiaye acknowledged that this return, his first as minister, would take place in “a context of unprecedented tension for the recruitment of teachers”, but wanted to be reassuring, promising on several occasions that there would be “a teacher in front of each class in all the schools in France”. To make up for the lack of teachers, the Minister recently announced the recruitment of 3,000 contract teachers trained in a few days before finding themselves facing a class. On the question of teachers’ salaries, which are below the OECD average and a lever for recruiting more, the Minister specified on Tuesday that “it is clear that a beginner cannot earn more than a teacher who has ten years of experience”. “We must therefore also touch on the mid-career so that there is an attractive upgrading,” he continued. Survey carried out by self-administered online questionnaire on August 30 and 31, on a representative sample of 1,002 people aged 18 and over, according to the quota method.