“She represents the government so much that I found it quite coherent, someone above ground,” smiles Charlotte, a nursery school teacher in Paris. Like many of her colleagues, the teacher took advantage of the Parisian demonstration to criticize Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, the Minister of National Education who has been making flammable remarks since her appointment on rue de Grenelle in mid-January.
“It gives us one every day, there’s enough to make a good best-of at the end,” laughs Olivier, maths teacher in Villiers-le-Bel (95). He came with his young son, Paul. The little boy is holding a sign saying “Help, my parents enrolled me in public school”.
Thousands of education professionals took to the streets in Paris and the rest of France to denounce the deterioration of their working conditions, demand better salaries and, like Olivier, criticize their minister’s comments on schools. public. “It’s just indecent that she’s still there,” says Audrey, a plastic arts teacher in Villejuif (94).
According to figures from the Ministry of Education, 20.26% of teachers were on strike on Thursday. The Snes-FSU, the leading secondary school union, estimated the rate of strikers in middle and high schools at 47%, and the FSU-Snuipp, the main primary union, counted 40% of strikers in nursery and elementary schools.
An important mobilization, but less for example than that of January 13, 2022, when Jean-Michel Blanquer was Minister of National Education.