High school mobilization: “We certainly should have been faster,” recognizes Édouard Geffray

“My deep conviction is that our young people need to go to class,” Minister of Education Édouard Geffray declared on LCI on Thursday ahead of the start of the school year on Monday for the All Saints’ Day holidays, which interrupted more than a month of blockades of establishments. “We certainly should have been faster,” he also admitted.

“There are many external figures who invite blockage but our high school students need to succeed in their school year,” added Édouard Geffray, mentioning the “800,000 high school students who take the baccalaureate at the end of the year, 800,000 others who take the French baccalaureate, the mathematics baccalaureate or professional exams and nearly 700,000 who are in second grade”.