
The proposal to trivialize courses by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu arouses indignation from unions and students.
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The high school movement in France is escalating with the organization of massive demonstrations and calls for strikes by unions.
Faced with the high school crisis, the government is stalling and adding fuel to the fire. By announcing on Tuesday, to the National Assembly, a “complete trivialization” of courses “from Thursday, from Friday, to allow each establishment to have a time of internal democracy”, with sequences of dialogue, the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, reinforced the anger of students and their parents, but even more that of National Education staff. If he had wanted to add to the chaos, he would not have done it any other way.
The day after this surreal declaration and the massive demonstration of October 6, which brought together 256,000 people in France, according to the Ministry of the Interior, and 450,000 according to the organizers, several education unions called for a day of mobilization and strike this Thursday, in support of the high school movement, which is preparing to experience its “Act IV”.
“In a high school in Nantes, the students arrived at their establishment this Wednesday…”
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Day of mobilization and national strike this Thursday.
Very likely · Within days

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