Their concerns are valid, I think. So are the student’s. Lots of teachers also support the protests, they know full well the conditions they have to work under.
I am in (university) education in France. By and wide, educators absolutely support the protests. They also would like to have the time to educate. Roughly half of the planned curriculum has been covered for this semester. This is including online material, that we all know is not as effective as in person teachings. But what is the way out?
The government is on its way out, whatever they promise will have to be maintained by the incoming government - so no promise is trustworthy right now.
Exams are closing in and what does it even mean to grade over a semester with half of the lessons having been canceled?
Many questions, a lot of insecurity, but also the feeling that the situation is untenable. In my university, a previously mandatory course had to be canceled because the professor was sick for months. There was just no spare room out of a department of 70 full time professors for one of them to be sick more than a couple of days. How can you keep going on? The university brass keep saying that “maybe next year” there will be funding… but they have been saying it for a decade!
I rather enjoy watching you French folks not taking shit from these bastards.
Not French myself but I agree!!
