50 teachers on strike this morning

In response to the call from the Se-Unsa Union, fifty teacher-strikers gathered this morning outside the Collège Mont des Accords. Following numerous violent events taking place in Saint-Martin schools, teachers are calling for more human resources (including recruitment of adults-relays) and material resources, so that rules can be enforced.

At 9:30, thirty of them visited the offices of the representative of the Superintendent's office, waiting to be received. In addition to general demands for the entire territory, the striker delegation calls for concrete solutions to the issues specific to the Collège Mont des Accords: absence of detention room, classes lasting one hour and a half, lack of control of who enters and exits the building... "We must succeed at keeping struggling students in overheated rooms with only a table and a piece of chalk for an hour and a half, while other students are walking in the corridors and insulting those attending class through the window." summarizes a teacher from the school. 

Later, they are to meet with representatives of the Collectivité. Later this afternoon, once these meetings have taken place, they will vote during a General Assembly, to continue, or cease the strike.