7:25 am: Masks and recruitment to calm the anger of the teachers

At the end of this day of strike, the teachers’ unions were received by Prime Minister Jean Castex. After 03:30 a.m. of a meeting, the Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, announced the availability of “5 million FFP2 masks” for children’s teachers who request them, and the distribution of surgical masks from early next week for education. personal.

He also promised “several thousand” replacements “to face the crisis”, with the hiring of “3,300 more subcontracted workers” and the use of additional lists, that is, candidates who had the competitions but have not been recruited, a long – Permanent demand of the unions.

Given the disturbance caused by the health crisis, the “mid-CP” evaluations, which were to begin next week, will be “postponed to a period to be defined.” As for the high school specialty exams, which are normally held in March, the minister indicated that he was going to “redo an analysis with the representative bodies” to “see if it is convenient to have a postponement of these exams from March to June. ”. .