Baccalaureate 2023: students worried about the strike of transport and teachers

Louise Sallé 07:57, March 20, 2023

Kick-off, this Monday afternoon at 14pm, of the specialty tests of the bac 2023, for more than half a million students in the final year in general and technological sector. These exams are taking place this year under tense conditions due to strikes against the pension reform: disrupted transport and supervisors threaten to mobilize.

What not to reassure students, already anxious by these tests that count for a third of the final grade of the baccalaureate, and will appear in their Parcoursup file. They are, for the first time, organized very early in the year, in March, as required by Jean-Michel Blanquer's reform of the bac that came into force in 2019, but whose calendar has always been modified due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Take margin to arrive on time

It will be necessary to take margin this Monday to arrive well on time before the start of the event and avoid any problem in transport for Arthur, a 17-year-old Parisian high school student. "I live quite far from my high school, but in the end, every time there has been a strike, I have managed to come without too many worries," he reassures. "And then just leave early, I will take even more margin than usual," adds the teenager.

Risk of "blockade"?

The fear of seeing the high school blocked also looms, even if this action seems unpopular with young people, says Samuel, also in his final year. "I know that high school students do not have in mind at all the idea of putting our baccalaureate in trouble, we all want to pass the baccalaureate," he says. "Afterwards, we may mobilize. But here, frankly, we are on the bac, so we are not here to block, "says the student.

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A call for a strike by supervisors launched by unions

Supervising teachers could also strike, although many say they do not want to prevent the holding of a baccalaureate already very stressful for their students. "I can't see myself telling my final year that I'm going to defend pensions, so the baccalaureate and revisions will pass after," says Thierry Gasnier, a history and geography teacher at the Lycée Montaigne in Paris.

"I really made the choice not to disrupt their events and I have stuck to it 100% for now," he said. After three years disrupted by Covid-19, the 2023 edition of the new baccalaureate is also struggling, like the previous ones, to take place serenely.