Several thousand teachers marched throughout France to denounce the deterioration of their working conditions. “It gives us one every day, there’s enough to make a good best-of at the end,” laughs Olivier, maths teacher in Villiers-le-Bel.
According to figures from the Ministry of Education, 20.26% of teachers were on strike on Thursday. The Snes-FSU, the leading secondary school union, estimated the rate of strikers in middle and high schools at 47%.