If Jean-Luc Godard had come for a walk on boulevard Saint-Michel on Thursday afternoon, he would have been happy to see that contempt was the blockbuster of this January 13. Jeanne even pasted the poster of the film on the sign she brandished in the middle of the Parisian demonstration. This kindergarten teacher in the 18th arrondissement of Paris denounces “the inconsistency of the measures taken to combat the pandemic. The new protocol does not protect anyone”. Especially in kindergarten, where the students are not masked and where “we teachers still only have our fabric masks”. She evokes a “general fed up since the start of the health crisis” facing a minister who “destroyed the school slowly” and bears witness to “contempt” towards staff.
” Contempt “, it is the tube of the afternoon, on the placards, in the slogans, in the mouths of the union officials as in that of the personnel of all categories who parade in the Latin Quarter. Where everyone hastens to point out that “we are not striking against a virus”. “We want answers in terms of health, with a stable protocol that really protects students and staff, says Marie-Hélène Plard, school principal and co-secretary of the SNUipp-FSU in Seine-Saint-Denis, but we are also waiting for answers on the rest. » Isabelle also wants answers. AESH (accompanying a student with a disability) in Drancy for three years, she came with her daughter: “I am recognized as a vulnerable person, I am a single mother, I earn 800 euros per month… and I have to buy my masks, because otherwise we only had slip masks which do not protect us! »
Those who would limit this strike to a mood swing caused by clumsy management of the explosion of contamination due to the Omicron variant risk being at their expense. “The virus is Blanquer! », this is the other great success of the day to show that yes, the school is sick, that both students and staff are suffering, but that the Covid is not the main cause. The manager has occupied rue de Grenelle since 2017. Prof. of SVT in Noisy-le Grand, François wants to “to alert public opinion to our fed up, our fatigue for two years”. In his college, the students do not have a nurse. She has not been replaced “while the incidence rate among 10-19 year olds reached 5,900 in the department! Out of 640 students, we have 300 who are positive or contact cases. We expect real answers, effective means of protection. We cannot be told that there is no money for that when, in two years, the minister has returned more than 600 million from the national education budget! “.
75% of strikers in the primary and 62% in the secondary
“We have students who have to wait an hour, two hours in front of the infirmary to be tested”, details Coline, AED (educational assistant) at the Voltaire school complex, in Paris, who wrote on her mask “Let’s change air, let’s turn Blanquer!” “. She wonders about ” the following “, just like Mona, principal education adviser at the Éluard high school, in Saint-Denis, which she describes “dilapidated, overrun with rats”. The consequences, they began on Thursday evening, Jean Castex having decided to receive the trade union organizations which he had not deigned to consult before announcing the last version of the health protocol. The strength of the mobilization, with 75% of strikers in the primary and 62% in the secondary, according to the FSU, undoubtedly ended up convincing him. Note in passing that the figures from the Ministry of National Education (respectively 36.5% and 23.7%) are false, since calculated on a “photo” of the strikers at 8 a.m., thus counting those absent and those who are beginning their service after 8 hours as… non-strikers. It is the inter-union meeting this Friday evening which will decide on the consequences, while locally general assemblies have already called for a new day of action, on January 20.
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