A third of schools closed in the Loiret on Thursday? Towards “a historic strike”

“We are heading towards a historic strike”, explains this Tuesday evening the departmental secretary of SNUIP-FSU 45, the main teachers’ unions. Based on feedback from the field and declarations of intention to strike from school teachers, Laurianne Delaporte believes that 55 to 60% of primary school teachers in Loiret will go on strike on Thursday, as part of the national movement launched in national education against the health protocol, deemed “unmanageable”.

One in three schools closed in the Loiret?

“We should have about a third of schools closed, this is unheard of in the Loiret, a department generally a little less mobilized than elsewhere”, continues the trade unionist. Nationally, 75% of primary school teachers are expected to be on strike and one in two schools may be closed. “The interview with Jean Castex on Monday evening on TF1 which further modified the health protocol ended up convincing the colleagues who hesitated, we can feel it”, explains Laurianne Delaporte.

13 schools closed Thursday in Orléans

AT Orleans, for example, the City indicates this Tuesday evening that thirteen schools will be closed (out of 67) due to the teachers’ strike, but a minimum reception service is planned. AT Saran, north of Orleans, the four nursery schools in the city will be closed, indicates the town hall. AT Saint-Jean-de-Braye, another town in the Orleans metropolitan area, three schools (two nursery schools and a school group, Gallouedec) will also be closed. AT Olivet, the town hall evokes “80 to 100% absenteeism in the schools of the municipality”, Thursday.

And in the Montargois?

Another example in Montargois: “32 teachers out of 78 will be on strike on Thursday”, explains the town hall of Montargis which sets up a minimum reception service in each school for the children of priority staff and those whose parents cannot help, “thanks to eight animators and nine Atsem” (the Pasteur school will have zero open classes). AT Chalette-sur-Loing, the municipality indicates that three schools will be completely closed, without minimum reception service (except in a school which will welcome the children of caregivers), “to avoid the mixing of children and because our municipal staff are, for some, positive to Covid-19 or contact cases “.