“Indignant” the French teachers have gone on strike today and are set to take part in protests across the country to “warn” the government about their working conditions, wages and the state of public schooling.

“We hope that many teachers will take to the streets because we have put up with enough,” explained Benjamin Marol, a history-geography teacher at a high school in Montreux, north of Paris.

THE mobilization it will be “a warning to the government”, which is “turning a deaf ear” to the warnings “about the daily life, the problems at work as well as the lack of recognition, mainly salary” of the teachers, underlined the main union of primary education workers, the FSU -SNUipp. According to it, “the situation worsened with the appointment of a part-time minister”.

THE a call for a strike had been made in December before the appointment to the Ministry of Education of Amelie Udea-Castera, who succeeded Gabriel Attal who became Prime Minister.

THE Udea- Kasteras he was promoted three weeks ago to super-minister, taking over the Education and Youth sectors in addition to the Ministry of Sports and Olympic Games of which he heads.

The dissatisfaction of the teachers after her controversial statements about enrolling her children in a private school attended by the Parisian elite has crystallized in her face.

In the Paris demonstration will start at 14:00 following a call from the main teachers’ unions. Other demonstrations have been announced in various cities, including Marseille, Rennes and Nantes.