After occupying the college all weekend, certain teachers and members of the educational team decided to go on strike this Monday. They denounce the situation of several homeless students.
The mobilization does not weaken. In front of the Lezay-Marnésia college in Strasbourg, several signs were hung on the gates: “college occupied, students on the street”. For several days, the teaching team has been fighting to denounce the situation of several middle school students, whose families are homeless and who sleep on the street.
After occupying the establishment all weekend, certain teachers decided to go on strike since Monday, November 11 to alert the authorities, and in particular the European Community of Alsace (CEA).
“We don't give up”
This Tuesday morning, 80% of teachers are on strike according to a history and geography professor at the college, met by AFP. “We're not giving up, we haven't fought all this fight for nothing,” says Lydie Robin, the college's principal education advisor, speaking to BFM Alsace.
In total, five families are affected by this situation, including eight middle school students.
According to the latter, for several years, the number of children on the street has been growing. “Basically there was only one family, since the start of the school year, we have been overwhelmed. We have five families on the street,” she adds.
The educational teams are demanding that empty staff accommodation be made available. This is the meaning of a sign posted on the gates: “Students on the street, empty staff accommodation”.
The strike decided on Monday comes “after months of dialogue which led to nothing”, with the European Community of Alsace (CEA), a professor regrets to AFP. “We are here occupying the college because other actions have remained unanswered and others which are not those we would like to have”, in turn supports the CPE.
A difference in treatment mentioned
Monday morning, Florian Kobryn, elected environmentalist at the CEA present in front of the college, regretted that “the first reflex” of the community was to “discard, under the pretext that it would not be within the competence of the department”.
And to insist: “Yet, in 2022, the Alsatian majority was much less reluctant to put in place, without delay, this same system to house Ukrainian refugees. Why today this difference in treatment? Why this solidarity with variable geometry?”
Same story from an education assistant at the microphone of BFM Alsace. “This is not a negotiation. These are street children, regardless of their status and the reasons why they are on the street, they must be accommodated and rehoused,” indicates Octave Walzer
According to the teachers, the movement should continue until the children “are sheltered”.
