Last week, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced that first-year university students could resume face-to-face tutorials in half-groups from January 25. But the students remain mobilized: they announce that they will take to the streets next Tuesday, January 26, for the day of mobilization of all the staff of National Education.r life, we wanted to know that. But we won’t know him.”
We are present at the gathering called by the student inter-organization. ✊
Students at their end, lack of staff and resources, no visibility and blurred communication. The second semester should not be like the first! pic.twitter.com/daVWyA2LPy
– Sud Educ University of Lille (@SudUnivLille) January 20, 2021
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Like a majority of students, she does not support the attitude of the authorities towards students. Many feel infantilized, ridiculed: “!Whenever we hear about us in ministers’ speeches, they often say things like “we have a thought for the students.” Yes, but that is not enough! we want more! “. This is also what denounces Estelle, 21, a second year student of sociology in Lille: “_We are not children. Contrary to what the Minister of Higher Education says, it is not because a candy is lying around the table that we will take it “_. She finds it very infantilizing to see that 6-year-old children can go to school but that students are prohibited from having face-to-face lessons. “We are told that we become adults when we arrive at university, that we have to take responsibility. And then, suddenly, we wouldn’t be serious enough to wash our hands. It’s quite violent to hear that because we wonder what image we have of us.”
– Odile Senellart
If the students are asking for a return to face-to-face lessons, it is to receive better quality lessons, to be able to question the teachers, exchange knowledge, also ask the teachers questions about their orientation, and regain a routine. But it is also and above all because they can no longer be as though locked up at home. This is what this student experiences when living with her boyfriend, also a student, in a 26 square meter apartment: “We have to draw lots to decide who will take his course on the only desk in the apartment and which one will end up on the bed. The problem when you are in bed is that there is the telephone, the temptation to sleep. We have just enough!”. Many students admit to staying in their pajamas very often during their distance learning courses, Fewer and fewer students are turning on their cameras for class, even when it comes to tutorials.
Last week, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced that first-year university students could resume face-to-face tutorials in half-groups from January 25. But the students remain mobilized: they announce that they will go back down to the streets next Tuesday, January 26, for the day of mobilization of all the staff of National Education.
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