To our children and students

Thank you for everything. For the boldness, courage and determination.

Thank you for reminding us that there is nothing to expect. We ourselves have waited so long that we know what it will cost in the end.

Waiting for the end of the day, for the end of the week, for the beginning of the month, for the response from CAF. (1) Waiting for the situation to calm down, waiting for better days, waiting for the elections, waiting for the bus, waiting for the subway. Waiting to finally go to bed. Always going back to bed.

You were also told to wait. To the end of the day, the start of the holidays, the results of Parcoursup. (2) Waiting for an education, why not a job, waiting to be self-employed - and then realizing that this is the opposite of freedom. Waiting for life to begin exactly where it ends.

You really did well to stop waiting.

Bravo for the humor, the costumes, the fireworks, the solidarity and everything we saw on the streets.

The world we leave you is a ruin, the future we are preparing for you is a nightmare - and yet you still manage to have fun. You are the best version of ourselves, the sum of everything we messed up, everything we gave up.

You know that, but it's important to tell you again. We are also very worried. But we would be even more so if you accepted the world as it is.

To the teachers, supervisors and principals

On Tuesday you went on strike to demand better working conditions. You marched, demonstrated and chanted slogans - and then you went home again. The government didn't even bother to despise you.

Within two days, your students' blockades at the Élysée Palace triggered a crisis team, caused panic on television and resulted in the closure of a large proportion of French high schools. There is a lesson to be learned from this.

You know all of their demands and share them: overcrowded classes, colleagues who have not been replaced, unhygienic rooms and rescue foil on the windows to prevent burning from May onwards. And of course “Parcoursup” – you know its grievances and injustices by heart. That nasty little machine of selection and pressure that weighs on your students as much as you every day. Pedagogy of humiliation. And yet your disciples have come to remind you: Nothing that has been done can be undone.

Thank you to all of you who joined the blockades and supported your students. The equation is simple: Objectively speaking, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain - starting with no longer allowing yourself to be humiliated.

If you sincerely rejected your shared situation, it would be a different story: it's not so easy for a government to choke a math teacher or shoot the French teacher in the head with an LBD rifle. Maybe then everyone would join in.

To Laurent Nuñez, Edouard Geffray and the prefects

On your orders, the police have been harassing children for several days. On your orders, they were knocked down, dragged across the ground, choked and shot at point-blank range with LBD bullets. Not only did you want to hurt her, you did everything you could to humiliate her.

1,949 students were arrested – how many police officers were held accountable? What lessons can be learned from this?

And yet you hide behind lies and irresponsibility.

You really don't have to have ever set foot outside a secondary school to believe that La France insoumise bears even the slightest responsibility for this youth outburst. You have to be particularly ill-informed to imagine that “representatives of the far left” would secretly remotely control the garbage cans piled up in front of schools. Only and in a dirty way you lie.

As students demand teachers, resources and a little appreciation, call on police to “have no inhibitions” when using force, and as police unions demand to be allowed to shoot at them with LBD weapons, warn prefects against any “contrary directive on the ground.” We are not inventing or exaggerating anything, we are quoting you from “Le Monde” of October 2, 2026. You are calling for and promoting violence against our children. Locked in your gilded offices, you let the police loose and count the arrests and injuries.

This morning 400 high schools were blocked. Not from the students, but through your regulations. The hygiene measures developed during a pandemic become a weapon with which you lock up young people. The trick is too obvious: everyone is forbidden to gather near a secondary school. Anyone who dares to leave the house can be arrested. After you have staged the violence, you now organize the deprivation of their freedom.

To all of us

How can we take seriously what our children - the children - express in their joy and despite the tear gas? How can we do justice to the situation, that is, without the superiority of our own resignation?" The next national meeting seems to be scheduled for October 6. First of all, we have to be there.

Some parents on October 2, 2026

Published on October 4th, 2026 on Lundi Matin, translated into German by Bonustracks.

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Footnotes of the translation

(1) The CAF (Caisse d’Allocations familiales) is the state family fund in France that pays out financial aid and social benefits such as housing benefit to students, families and low-income earners.

(2) Parcoursup is the national online platform for the allocation of first semester study places at universities and colleges in France.

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