“Usually, we do not strike”: united front of personnel of education against blanquer

Thursday, the strike brought together a large part of the actors of national education. If it is a sign of an exasperation shared by the entire educational community in the management of the health crisis, it is also revealing deeper dysfunctions.

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The mobilization has worn. After three hours of meeting with the unions after the mobilization day, Jean-Michel Blanquer announced some developments on the distribution of masks, the reinforcement of contractuals and assistants of education, as well as more regular consultations . Called by the vast majority of public and private education unions, and supported by Parents of CIPF students, the day of strike had gathered, it is true, the entire educational community. Including heads of establishment and inspectors, these frameworks that we can not see, usually, in the processions.

“This is the first time I manifest, and the first time as I feel such a feeling of anger. We are in the first line, we, the supervisors, to explain the protocol to the parents. And we are at the Current changes by the press! “Dylan Quenon has come to grow the ranks of the Parisian event, Thursday, January 13, with other educational assistants of Drancy High School (Seine-Saint-Denis). The young man missed the competition once but despite everything becomes a teacher.

Among the staff mobilized, many, like Dylan, are not usually – a sign of the exasperation that now dominates among the actors of the school. In all, 77,500 people marched in France, including 8,200 in Paris, according to the Ministry of the Interior. Many others were not in the street but reported on strike. National education counted 38.48% of strikers among primary school teachers, when the main union, the SNUIPP-Fsu, in advance 75%. In colleges and high schools, the ministry announces 23.73% of strikers, compared with 62% for the SNES-FSU.

“From the cannon flesh”

In the Paris procession, which has risen at 2 pm from the Luxembourg Garden to the Ministry of National Education, two CPE of the High School Paul-ELUARD of Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), Mona Rhalies And Océane Bernard, say “exhausted”, two weeks after the beginning of January. “The school life service has become an ARS office [Regional Health Agency]. One in two students is absent at least once a day,” they tell. For the two young women, originating in the south of France and mutated in Seine-Saint-Denis this year, no doubt: “It should have been postponed. We were flesh in Canon in this crisis. January 3rd , the nurse made 17 positive tests in one hour. “

 Three teachers of schools in the Hauts de Seine parade with the Paris Crosege, January 13, 2022 .
Three teachers of schools in the Hauts de Seine parade with the Paris Crosege, January 13, 2022. Julien Lilyuet for “The World”

In Nîmes, Vincent LePoint, a principal of the Philippe-Lamour High School, denounces the multiplication of health protocols and their complexity. “They generate more dysfunctions than the COVID-19 itself”, observes the one who last year had managed to maintain all the classes of presential high school students.

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