Education: call for national strike in schools on November 20

The three main unions of primary teachers called Friday a day nationwide strike on November 20 next in kindergartens and elementary to denounce the government's educational policy. This movement will take place while 21 organizations in the education sector, including all federations of teachers, announced Wednesday evening a week of action in Education between 17 and 21 November with a "moment of mobilization "November 20. The Minister of National Education Xavier Darcos "made no response to dissatisfaction and demands" at the national event last Sunday in Paris, write SNUipp, the SGEN-CFDT and the SE-UNSA in a joint statement released Friday. "After the publication of programs heavier past whose vision is accompanied by a reduced teaching time of two hours, 'you doing' or provocative on what kindergarten teachers, the foundations of 'public schools that are challenged, they believe. According to unions, "for the first time in the first degree, an increase of nearly 20,000 students accompanied by the elimination of 5,500 positions" in 2009 and the abolition of networks of aid to students in difficulty ( RASED) "without any consultation." Under the action week from 17 to 21 October, the SGEN-CFDT, the SE-UNSA and FSU-SNUipp "decide to call school teachers to strike massively", said the press release. Meanwhile, the SE-UNSA In a statement released Friday a meeting Inter in the second degree and a call to strike unit in colleges and high schools, also on November 20. This new announcement to strike in the primary also while SGEN-CFDT said Wednesday that the replacement teachers were more assured "for over a month (...) in many schools, students are distributed in other classes that are overcrowded by the union. The SGEN-CFDT said feared a situation "critical" after the holidays of All Saints, depending on the extent of seasonal diseases like influenza.