For months now, it has been going on. Every two weeks, at least one day a week without a canteen, study hall, or after-school activity (TAP). It’s complicated in terms of organization.” Sylvie, mother of a student at Jean-Jaurès primary school in the XIXth arrondissement of Paris, is fed up. “It’s hell, it means picking up the kids from 11:30 to 1:20. On Tuesdays, we also have to pick them up at 3 o’clock.”
In this establishment as in dozens of others in Paris, a sporadic strike of the extracurricular staff has been ongoing since November and punctuates the daily lives of families with dark Thursdays and entire weeks of mobilization. The latest one, organized from November 13th to 17th, was followed by more than 200 schools out of the 630 in the capital.
