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48 hours from the new teachers’ strike, we learn that the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, was in Ibiza, on vacation, when he unveiled the new health protocol in schools, the day before the start of the new school year. . Nothing illegal, but the unions are furious and the left are calling for his resignation.
The destination is controversial. It was from Ibiza and its sandy beaches that Jean-Michel Blanquer prepared the new protocol for the start of the school year in January, announced in a paying article in Le Parisien, just a few hours before classes resume. What indignant some parents of students. All the opposition denounces this stay, from the extreme right to the extreme left. Among the Greens, Yannick Jadot calls for the resignation of the minister.
The government indicates that the minister was working by videoconference from Ibiza, and that he respected the rule requiring ministers to be two hours from Paris. On the side of the teachers, this episode goes very badly, the unions denounce “a casual attitude and contempt for the entire educational community” and maintain their call for a day of mobilization, Thursday, January 20.