A high school student consults the explanatory sheets for the new Bac (illustration) - ALLILI MOURAD / SIPA

This Tuesday, the advanced Bac exams were canceled, at the Georges-Clemenceau high school, in Montpellier, in the Hérault. Protesters, including teachers and parents of students, blocked access to the school, preventing the tests from being held. They have been postponed, indicates the rectorate to 20 Minutes.

The Lycée Clemenceau is blocked by teachers' unions, parents of pupils and high school students this Tuesday morning, the day of the new continuous examinations for the Bac. #Montpellier # Bac2020 # greve28janvier # E3C pic.twitter.com/zg9QmZ2rvL

- Gazette Live Mtp (@ GazetteLive34) January 28, 2020

"Pension reform and bac Blanquer, we do not want it, we will not let go", growled this Tuesday morning, on Twitter, the union Sud Education 34, which participated in the demonstration.

E3C blocking action in progress at the Clémenceau high school in Montpellier, at the call of the departmental intersyndicale.

Pension reform and Bac Blanquer, we don't want it, we won't give up! ✊✊✊ # greve28January # E3C # Bac2020 #reformesdesretraites pic.twitter.com/kDNzMXcGtg

- SUD Education 34 (@ sudeducation34) January 28, 2020

Thursday, a similar blockage had already led to the postponement of the tests at the Lycée Jules-Guesde, in the capital of Hérault. "The use of these tests to demonstrate a form of dissatisfaction is deplorable, it is the students who are the first affected by these forms of protest," reacted the rectorate, in a statement.

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  • Demonstration
  • Languedoc-Roussillon
  • LAC
  • High school
  • Pension reform
  • Montpellier