Teachers’ strike Thursday, January 13: “I do not condemn the strike, I believe in social dialogue”, reacts Am – Franceinfo

“I do not condemn the strike, I believe in social dialogue”, reacts Sunday January 9 on franceinfo Amélie de Montchalin, Minister of Transformation and Public Service, while the teachers’ unions call for a national strike Thursday January 13 in schools, colleges and high schools, to denounce “an indescribable mess” in establishments due to the Covid-19 epidemic. “Obviously, we have to find shared solutions, but alternatives are not desirable”, she explains.

The Minister mentions several hypotheses. “Are we closing all the schools? I believe that all educational and family actors are well aware that closing schools is a lot of inequalities. These are not good quality learning, and it’s not something we want to come back to, it’s a national cause “, replies the minister.

Unions are asking that the classes where there are cases of Covid-19 be closed. “I hear these proposals, it still means that at the end we close a lot of classes. Today you have 9,000 closed classes out of 527,000 classes, and 55,000 positive students out of 12 million students. Yes, it’s complicated, but what should be remembered is that the majority of the students were able to go to class “, specifies Amélie de Montchalin.