At midday, the strike rate in National Education was 3.96% in primary and 6.19% in secondary, according to the ministry, 15% and 32% according to unions.

This first national day of strike in National Education since the start of the school year to ask for "an emergency plan" is held at the call of the intersyndicale CGT, FSU, FO and SUD.

Demonstrations are planned in various cities in France, in Paris from 1:30 p.m.

A rate that "does not reflect the current discontent"

Guislaine David, general secretary of Snuipp-FSU, the first primary school union, assures us that “this rate of 15% of striking teachers does not reflect the current discontent. The health crisis, class closures in the event of Covid and the still approaching return to school means that teachers are not very committed, because they do not want to penalize families, ”she assures us. The situation is "disparate" according to the academies but "we see for example that in Seine-Saint-Denis, the rate of strikers rises to 25% today," she says.

For Sophie Vénétitay, general secretary of Snes-FSU, the first secondary school union (middle and high schools), the strike rate (32%) "shows that teachers are ready to act and to mobilize, even at the start of the school year" .

"The results of this five-year term under Blanquer do not pass," says Sophie Vénétitay.

"All these back-to-school actions reflect the anger, bitterness and annoyance after five very difficult years for staff, faced with an avalanche of measures that have distorted their jobs and weakened the public education service".

"Macron's announcements are a provocation"

According to Sophie Vénétitay, “these teachers, CPE, PsyEN, AESH and AED are on strike to demand an emergency plan for education”. In Marseille, a procession of several hundred teachers set off at the end of the morning, in the direction of the prefecture, three weeks after Emmanuel Macron's promises to build "the school of the future" in the Phocaean city.

"Abandonment of the Macron experimental project, neither in Marseille nor elsewhere", could one read on a banner brandished by Laurence Rouvière, a teacher in a primary school in the 14th arrondissement.

For this teacher, unionized at FO, “Macron's announcements are a provocation.

It implies that teachers are not motivated enough.

I've been working in the northern districts (of Marseille) for 16 years, if I wasn't motivated, I would have stopped, ”added this school teacher.

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