Jean-Michel Blanquer on March 4, 2021 in Paris.

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Chaotic starts for homeschooling this Tuesday.

Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said the connection difficulties were partly due to computer attacks from abroad, "problems" that the Education Minister hopes will be resolved by the end. of the day.

The device of the Cned (National Center for Distance Learning) "my class at home", undergoes "disturbances", because of a "very strong computer attack from abroad", explained the Minister of 'National education on the move to a school in Paris welcoming the children of priority staff.

“We are in the process of remedying it.

I hope that technically it will be restored during the day, ”he said.

Influx of connections

“Fortunately we have other resources available,” added the minister, citing lessons recorded as part of the Lumni educational platform or various National Education sites.

"I hope that by tonight these problems will be resolved," continued Jean-Michel Blanquer.

"In certain regions (Grand-Est, Île-de-France, Hauts-de-France, Occitanie), services were greatly slowed down, even inaccessible this morning," then admitted the minister.

ENTs (digital work environments) are managed by "local authorities, which depend on a private operator in Strasbourg, the victim of a fire some time ago, which was unable to cope with the influx of connections. this morning, ”explained Jean-Michel Blanquer.

“I know they are hard at work” to restore these connection issues, he said.

"Unprepared"

“How many students and families have the feeling that they relive the same unpreparedness over and over again?

“, Could we read on Tuesday morning Twitter.

Many messages reported the same problem: "And there you have it, it crashed at 9:02 am", "I was ready to teach at a distance but this was obviously not the case with National Education".

These problems come as distance education has been generalized for this week from the closing of schools on Friday evening and until the unified spring break from April 12.

Before a return to school on April 26 face-to-face in schools and an additional week in middle and high schools.

Homeschool got off to a bad start last year, with saturated networks and inaccessible workspaces.

Difficulties resolved after a few days.

Since then, the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer assured that everything would be ready if a new episode of distance school was to be set up.

"Despite these malicious acts", some "500,000 students and teachers accessed the platforms" at 10am and "150,000 virtual classes were active."

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