If they were less numerous than Thursday, January 13, a week ago, they were no less reassembled. The teachers pounded the pavement between the Place de la Sorbonne and the Ministry of National Education, to protest against the health protocol imposed by the government, the lack of means and personnel they face as well as "the contempt" with which they say they are victims of their minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer. This has been at the heart of a controversy for several days, the “Ibizagate”. When the minister announced the health protocol so decried in the columns of Le Parisien, on Sunday January 2, he was in fact on vacation in Ibiza, as revealed by Mediapart. Many teachers see it as yet another symbol of the government's contempt for teachers.
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Activists and a Jean-Michel Blanquer lookalike parody the minister's vacation in Ibiza
"It's really a joke," says a disappointed kindergarten teacher.
It's amazing, but it's not surprising, he finally kept the same line of conduct.
“In itself, that he went to Ibiza, it is not dramatic, relativizes Nabil Izri, school teacher in Seine-Saint-Denis.
But it is part of the contempt of this government.
The anger is in fact less directed towards this controversy than towards the lack of means, the promises of 5 million FFP2 masks and thousands of replacement personnel which are not kept.
"The situation for us has not changed," reports a plastic arts teacher.
It's windy, there's nothing concrete on the ground.
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