National Education staff, joined by school nurses but also high school students and students, are called to strike and mobilize across France on Tuesday to make their voices heard.
For this new call for mobilization, “a third of teachers will be mobilized”, according to Snuipp-FSU, the first primary school union. Parades are to be held in Paris and in several other cities. In the capital, the demonstration is due to leave Luxembourg at 1 p.m. to move towards rue de Grenelle, headquarters of the Ministry of National Education.
A vague health protocol
Among the first concerns of the strikers, in particular the nurses, the health protocol deemed insufficient or unsuitable in schools.
For Saphia Guereschi, general secretary of the National Union of Nursing Health Advisors (SNICS-FSU, majority), nurses in college or high school are monopolized by the management of the health crisis and must manage the “phases of screening and tracing” , to the detriment of supporting students. “The serious consequence of this: our young people, who are doing very badly, can no longer be welcomed as it should during consultations in the establishments because we are not replaced, we must react very quickly”, she warns.
More clarity on decisions
The main federation of parents of FCPE students also calls for a strike on Tuesday to ask the authorities to “better anticipate the health crisis”. If the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer does not want schools to be closed in the event of a third confinement, many scenarios are on the table and could have repercussions on parents. The president of the scientific council, Jean-François Delfraissy, pleads in particular this Tuesday in the columns of Liberation for a single holiday zone in February, for a period of three weeks and not two. The holidays are currently scheduled to run from February 6 to March 8.
Students are also expected to join the processions, six days after mobilizing against the devastating effects of the Covid epidemic on their daily lives. They should be able to go to universities one day a week in the second term. Too few, believe the student unions, who are asking for a 50% face-to-face return. And that’s without counting on a possible third confinement.
Better remuneration
In November, the Ministry of Education announced upgrades from 2021, mainly targeted at the youngest. But the unions hope that a multiannual law, promised at the time of the pension reform, will come to devote lasting and substantial upgrades for the entire profession.
The school “is facing a serious and unprecedented crisis where the success of the pupils is threatened while the staff are on the front line and feel abandoned. Responses to the height of the challenges are necessary to allow a completely different public service of education, “asks Snuipp.
French teachers’ salaries are 7% lower at the start of their careers than the average for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries.
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