The "desert college" operation aims to encourage parents not to send their children to college. Teachers, who are not on strike, then welcome students who cannot stay at home.

A way for everyone to oppose the new measures that must be put in place at the next school year. The measure to establish "level groups" in sixth and fifth grade in French and mathematics is the one which has attracted the most criticism. Students will be separated into three groups: “needs”, “low to average” and “beyond satisfactory”