This Tuesday, October 6th, high school and university students are mobilizing across the country, called by the French High School Union and the Student Union. Sophie Pascal-Lericq, the mayor of Arcueil, will be with them.
In recent days, along with several elected officials from the municipal majority, she has visited the Darius Milhaud high school multiple times to listen to the mobilized students. They describe difficult conditions: buckets in the cafeteria on rainy days, students wearing coats in classrooms during winter, unbearable summer temperatures, classes of 35, missing teachers, and others never replaced.
Beyond their school, they denounce the lack of resources allocated to National Education, the limitations of Parcoursup (university admissions platform), and their concerns about the future for young people. They are demanding political responses but have so far received police responses, including 5,000 detentions in a few days, 90% of whom are minors.
Sophie Pascal-Lericq calls on the Government to open a dialogue with the students to provide them with the resources they demand, emphasizing that the protection of minors must come first. The mayor will receive a delegation of students from Darius Milhaud at the town hall in the coming days. Their proposals will feed into the youth consultation « Too young to wait ».
