7:25 a.m .: Masks and recruitment to calm the anger of teachers
At the end of this day of strike, the teacher unions were received by Prime Minister Jean Castex. After 3:30 a.m. of a meeting, the Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, announced the provision of “5 million FFP2 masks” for kindergarten teachers on request, and the distribution of surgical masks. from the beginning of next week for education staff.
He also promised “several thousand” replacements “to deal with the crisis”, with the recruitment of “3,300 more contract workers” and the use of additional lists, that is to say candidates who had the competitions but have not been recruited, a long-standing demand of the unions.
Faced with the disruption caused by the health crisis, the “mid-CP” evaluations, which were to start next week, will be “postponed to a deadline which remains to be defined”. As for the baccalaureate specialty exams, which normally take place in March, the minister indicated that he was going to “make an analysis again with the representative organizations” to “see if it is appropriate to have a postponement of these exams from March to June.