Most of us have one or two horror stories about our school days. A miscarriage of justice here, a gym teacher with a vendetta there. But a pattern of bizarre classroom behaviour has been emerging in France lately, and The Local has been paying attention. Here it is, our Top Ten Teachers Behaving Badly.
They might be half-witted or absent-minded. Some are poorly-judged and others are downright mean, but a series of French teachers have been making the headlines in the last few months, and for all the wrong reasons.
Whatever explains this recent spate of pedagogical shenanigans, The Local is here to help you catch up.
Sex, drugs, and paper balls – they're all here, in our 'Top ten teachers behaving badly.'
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Around three-quarters of French teachers plan to go on strike onThursday to protest the government's shifting rules on Covid testing for students, forcing the closure of half the country's primary schools, a union said Tuesday.
The strike led by the Snuipp-FSU union, the largest among primary school teachers, comes after the latest of several changes on testing and isolation requirements for potential Covid cases announced by Prime Minister Jean Castex late Monday.
After seeing long lines of parents outside pharmacies and labs in recent days to test children in classes where a case was detected, Castex said home tests could now be used to determine if a student could return to school.
But teachers say class disruptions have become unmanageable with the spread of the highly contagious Omicron coronavirus variant.
“Students cannot learn properly because attendance varies wildly, and a hybrid of in-house and distance learning is impossible to put in place,” the Snuipp-FSU said, adding that absent teachers are not being replaced.
It is also demanding the government provide facemasks for staff, including the more protective FFP2 masks, and CO2 monitors to check if classrooms are sufficiently ventilated.
“Not only does the current protocol not protect students, staff or their families, it has completely disorganised schools,” the union said, claiming that classes have effectively been turned into “daycare centres.”
Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer has said the government is doing everything possible to avoid outright school closures that could cause havoc for parents and jeopardise learning for thousands, especially those in low-income families.
“I know there is a lot of fatigue, of anxiety… but you don’t go on strike against a virus,” Blanquer told BFM television on Tuesday.
As of Monday some 10,000 classes had been shut nationwide because of Covid cases, representing around two percent of all primary school classes, Blanquer said.
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