The mobilization starts from today. Teachers are calling for a better adjustment of health rules in schools.
-1605018005.jpg "Strike in schools, colleges and high schools: the delicate balance between health security and the risk of dropping out")
- The unions are calling for a strike to force the Ministry of National Education to take action on teaching conditions.
- According to the unions, teachers and students share overloaded classes, full canteens, and impossibility of respecting barrier gestures
Strikes resume in National Education. At the call of the FSU, FO, the CGT, the Snalc, SNCL-FAEN and Sud-Education, the teachers’ unions decreed a day of health strike Tuesday, November 10. They campaign in particular for a limitation of the number of students in schools, so as not to risk the lives of teaching staff and students. According to them, the health rules cannot be applied correctly in colleges and high schools.
(hurry) #HealthAlert #November10 Strike #BalanceTonProtocol All requests from @SNESFSU for a real reinforced health protocol in the #high schools And the #colleges -> https://t.co/l9zkjyygAx pic.twitter.com/cPQCbh5q6a
— SNES-FSU (@SNESFSU) November 9, 2020
Classes cut in two and schedules arranged
What the unions are asking for are better working conditions in times of health crisis. Concretely, they deplore the still overcrowded classes which do not make it possible to respect the correct distances between the pupils.
The establishment of half-group classes or distance learning courses has not been implemented in all establishments, which complicates the holding of certain barrier gestures. Similarly, the non-arrangement of working hours encourages young people to all enter and leave establishments at the same time, which increases the risk of spreading the virus. It is not uncommon to see lately on social networks images of students crammed into the hallways or the canteen, without being able to apply the right distances.
Despite the announcements of the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, on the splitting of classes, the strike remains maintained in the establishments.
See students dropping out of school for a long time
However, if the measures desired by the unions can make it possible not to transform schools into epidemic centers, all the solutions are not necessarily good to take if they consist in reducing access to courses for students.
Yesterday, the Ministry of National Education unveiled the results of the national assessments carried out at the start of the school year. The spring confinement, introduced between March and May, caused the level of the students to drop sharply. Thus, it is in the pivotal classes, such as CP and CE1, that the shortcomings are the greatest, particularly with regard to the acquisition of reading and writing.
One of the lessons of the first confinement was to see that some young people had difficulty concentrating, following lessons or doing their homework when they were at home. Knowing that France already has more young people in a situation of dropping out of school, new measures to keep students away from their schools could be fatal for their access to education.
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