“Exasperated.”
20.26% of teachers responded this Thursday to the call for a strike launched by the main unions, according to the Ministry of Education.
According to Snes-FSU, the leading secondary education union, 47% of middle and high school teachers are on strike on Thursday.
While their new Minister of Education, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, has made numerous blunders in recent weeks, the teachers wanted to “send a warning”.
“I feel a mixture of feelings: anger, always, and for a while, but also exasperation, incomprehension: why go looking for recipes like the uniform, the level groups, which have never worked?
And what's more, carried by amateurs like the new minister who is, let's say it, incompetent,” Benjamin Marol, professor of history and geography at a college in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis), told AFP.
Demonstration in the afternoon
This afternoon, teachers are invited to demonstrate in Paris.
The procession will leave Luxembourg at 2 p.m. for the Ministry of National Education.
Other mobilizations are planned in large cities, such as Marseille, Nantes or Rennes.
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This call for a strike aimed at teachers and all education personnel was launched in December, before the arrival of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra rue de Grenelle to succeed Gabriel Attal, appointed to Matignon.
This mobilization will be “a warning to the government”, which “remains deaf” in the face of warnings “about daily life, suffering at work as well as the lack of recognition, particularly salary”, underlines the FSU-SNUipp union, for whom “the situation worsened with the appointment of a part-time minister who discredited herself.”
“AOC” has in fact multiplied the oddities since taking office, starting by justifying the registration of her children in a private school by “the number of hours not seriously replaced” in the public school attended by her son.
Médiapart has since revealed that the minister allegedly promoted a private school outside of a contract when she was Minister of Sports.
Since then, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra has been working to clear mines.
She carries out “meticulous work”, assures those around her who, on Tuesday evening, attacked those who, “even within Parliament”, make her the “symbol of a caste” to be “demolished”.