"We can all recognise ourselves in the letter," said teacher Isabelle at the protest in front of the education headquarters for the Seine-Saint-Denis region in northern Paris. Two days earlier, Renon had written a letter addressed to about 30 colleagues in which she bemoaned the accumulation of "time-consuming tasks" and detailed her "exhaustion". Elsewhere in France, a few hundred teachers marched on the education department in Lille in the north. Her voice breaking, one read Renon's letter to the gathered crowd, many of them in tears. Some told themselves: 'I could have written some of this myself'," said Benjamin Grandener, the principal of a nearby school.

Source: The Local October 03, 2019 16:52 UTC