Paris: Half of French Schools can close Thursday because up to three quarters of the teacher walked out, pushing back to the government after three changes in Covid rules for classrooms within a week.
The strike “showed despair that developed in school”, Snuip-FSU’s biggest teacher union said in a statement Tuesday announced a strike.
They complained that members could not teach correctly, not adequately protected against Coronavirus infection and often heard about changing health prevention measures through the media than from superiors.
Come when the French presidential election campaign is taking place in front of the sound of April, the walkout is not convenient for the government that has prided itself to keep the school open to reduce pressure on a pandemic through a pandemic.
With many sick students and difficulty combining distance learning with in-people classes, “it’s not an open school, but a kind of ‘child care’,” said Snuipp-FSU.
The president of the election of President Emmanuel Macron’s presidential election has seized broke down.
“I feel the extraordinary pain of the school community and especially parents,” said Conservative Candidate Valerie Pecresse to France 2 television.
Motivated by a long queue for tests outside the pharmacy, the government this week subsided the rules about Covid checks for students who have been exposed to infected people, with Prime Minister Jean Castex announced changes to Monday night.
“We have listened and made changes,” Government spokesman Gabriel Attal told reporters after Wednesday’s cabinet meeting, admitted “fatigue” among parents and teachers.
The command chain shift seems to be a reaction to the direct anger teacher in the education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer.
He hasn’t resigned from hard talks, saying on television Tuesday that “you don’t break against the virus”.
But his management of a pandemic response in school has pushed a total of 11 unions to participate in Thursday’s walkout, with rare unity shows that can make the biggest attacks in decades.