Anger of high school students: Timetables and deterioration of buildings at the heart of concerns

They all agree (or almost). Timetables are at the center of high school students' concerns. Or at least contributions to the consultation platform launched by the government for high school students, up to 71%. Problems linked to buildings appear in second position, according to a count made public on Sunday by Sébastien Lecornu. The government has identified 76,500 contributions at this stage.

Nearly three quarters of these contributions mention “the organization of school time: too long days, unbalanced timetables, heavy workload”, 51% raise “difficulties linked to buildings and material conditions” in high schools, and 28.5% address “the question of absent teachers and their replacement”, 24% that of “numbers per class” and 14.5% mention Parcoursup “and the difficulties linked to orientation”, details the Prime Minister on X.

A tool for “dialogue” according to the government

On this platform, received with indifference or skepticism by the mobilized students, everyone, without verification of their status as a high school student, can answer two open questions, on the “main difficulties” encountered in high schools and what “should change or be improved to learn better”. This initiative recalls the “major debates” organized at the time of the Yellow Vest demonstrations, which fueled “books of grievances” that were never returned.

The government is promoting this platform as a tool for “dialogue” in parallel with the resumption of classes. A “national restitution” is planned for the end of October which will feed into a “concrete action plan”. The government will notably table amendments to the draft budget for 2027 which will take up “certain proposals made” on the platform, repeats Mr. Lecornu.

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And these contributions will also be “analyzed academy by academy, then establishment by establishment”, to provide “adapted responses”. The platform, launched on October 5 on agora.gouv, is open until October 23.