• Nearly 38.5% of teachers are on strike in schools, according to the Ministry of Education, while SNUipp, the leading primary union, announced 75% of strikers.

    One in two primary schools remained closed, according to the union.

    In colleges and high schools, the figure is 23.7% according to the ministry, and 62% for the Snes-FSU, the first secondary school union.

  • In the processions, the anger seems to crystallize around the Minister of Education, as evidenced by the banners.

  • Prime Minister Jean Castex will receive the trade unions at the end of the afternoon.

They had predicted a black day in National Education and they carried out their threats. Many teachers, CPEs, school directors, principals, principals, Aesh (accompanying students with disabilities) gather at Place Edmond-Rostand in Paris, despite the cold. The ministry having announced the same morning that 38.5% of the teachers were on strike in the primary while the SNUipp-FSU, the first union of the primary, announced 75% of strikers. In colleges and high schools, 23.7% of teachers are mobilized, according to the ministry, while the Snes-FSU, the first secondary school union, announced 62% of strikers.

They came to shout their exasperation in the face of the waltz of health protocols, of course, but their anger seems to crystallize around the Minister of Education, as evidenced by the banners.

"Blanquer, school of misery", "Blanquer, the virus is you", "Blanquer resignation".

Some recent media outings by the minister have gone badly, as evidenced by a few signs: "We are not going on strike against the virus, but against Blanquer", can we read.

"I demonstrate against the lies of my minister"

The demonstrators rush on the asphalt and go up the boulevard Saint-Michel in the direction of the Ministry of Education.

Some came with their children, others with their colleagues.

Guillemette, a teacher in a college in Villeneuve Saint-Georges (Val-de-Marne) even made a doll in the image of the minister, wearing a virus: “It is the height of contempt.

It took two years to order surgical masks when we have staff in permanent contact with students.

We were the only ones confined to unventilated classrooms at 35, ”she says.

"Jean-Michel Blanquer, we don't want to work for you", sings the crowd at the #teachers' demonstration.

Calls for resignation also resound.

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Coming with her mother, a retired teacher, Pauline, a history-geo teacher in Corbeil-Essonnes (Essonne), brandishes a sign which reads: “When Blanquer passes, the school passes away”.

“I demonstrate against the lies of my minister.

Who said that Russian hackers had broken our ENT (digital work spaces) during the first confinement, who maintained before the deputies that he sent the health protocol to the teachers before revealing it in the press, who said that he would not close the schools just before the first confinement… We no longer trust him and neither does public opinion, ”she castigates.

“The 5 years that I have just lived have been the hardest of my career”

In the ranks of the demonstrators, we rail against the non-replacement of sick teachers, the difficulty of doing class while sending work to absent students, the lack of useful materials against the virus (FFP2 masks, CO2 sensors, etc.), the work overload involved in managing contact cases…

Jérôme, SVT teacher at the college, also criticizes the management of the health crisis at the minister's school: "The measures he announces seem improvised and totally out of step with what is happening on the ground".

And the assessment he makes of the minister's action is not glorious: “He is a good little soldier who applies a liberal education policy and who leads to a two-speed school.

The 5 years that I have just had have been the hardest of my career,” he confides.

“It is the Minister of Education who has the longest life.

We must not have shouted loud enough in recent years for him to leave, ”also launches Stéphanie, school teacher in Paris.

"There is a breaking point with Jean-Michel Blanquer"

In the ranks of union leaders, the discourse is hardly more civilized.

“The minister is no longer audible.

There is no longer any chance that he will get credit from teachers.

Moreover, some are on strike today when they never usually are,” says Stéphane Crochet, secretary general of SE-Unsa.

A little further in the procession, Guislaine David, secretary general of SNUipp, is no more tender towards the tenant of rue de Grenelle: “There is a breaking point with Jean-Michel Blanquer.

He must stop hammering that schools must remain open, without securing them.

He is now very isolated in the government because he is sticking to his positions.

Moreover, it was the Prime Minister who took over the file of the management of Covid-19 in schools ”.

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Bruno Bobkiewicz, secretary general of the SNPDEN-UNSA which represents the management staff, tries to depersonalize the debate: “We are not on an individual logic, but we just want to mean that these incessant changes in protocol no longer pass.

Moreover, 30% of our members are on strike today,” he announced.

An alert is displayed on the cellphones of the demonstrators.

Prime Minister Jean Castex will receive the trade unions at the end of the afternoon.

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