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Since Thursday, November 28, teachers at the Georges-Brassens high school (Essonne) have been on strike. Denouncing the “contempt” of the State and “shameful” working and learning conditions, they are demanding human and financial resources as well as the renovation of buildings.
The establishment’s bell gives the signal: it is around 9:30 a.m. and, to the tune of Friends first, several hundred students rush into the Georges-Brassens comprehensive high school, in Evry-Courcouronnes (Essonne). But, barely ten minutes later, many of them came out: on this morning of Tuesday, December 3, the majority of their teachers had just voted for their fourth consecutive day of strike. “The means first”, can we read on one of the many signs hung on the front of the building, which ironically adjoins an official sign: “Here, the region has invested 4.2 million euros in your high school.”
“We have been warning for years about the extremely degraded situation in our establishment, which continues to get worse. While we are simply asking for normal working conditions, the institutions are not addressing the problem. It can’t continue like this.” explains to us, on condition of anonymity, a teacher who has been mobilized since the first day of this social movement, which began on November 28. The day before, the principal of this public high school – the fourth to occupy this position in two years – had resigned from his position, barely two months after taking up his post. On November 5, in the wake of a student blockade, five posters representing him with the words «Wanted : dead or alive» (“Wanted: dead or alive”) had been discovered near the establishment. What enjo
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