Our first French guest: Teacher John, a high school history and geography teacher in Seine-Saint-Denis, joins us with returning guest Nancy co-hosting, to talk about the high school students' movement from the teachers' side of the blockade.

John explains why teachers and parents in his town stood between the police and the student, what Éducation prioritaire promises and what it delivers, why pupils in the département lose the equivalent of a year and a half of classes to missing teachers, and how Parcoursup turned every mark into a selection. We go through the students' demands, local, regional and national, from roofs and chairs to the end of public money for private schools, and talk about teacher pay, the McKinsey report, the coming mobilisation of the 5th of November and what a far-right government would mean for schools.

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