What happens on strike days....

Thursday, the students were on strike to protest this whole teacher reduction measure that Sarkozy has taken. The only class where there weren't enough students to hold class was at 8AM. Funny how that works. However, the highschoolers seemed to take this as an opportunity to be hooligans. They smashed in fire alarms and fflipped off the switch for the electricity trying to get everyone to participate. Sigh. My students are in a post-highschool degree program, so for the most part they did not participate in the strike, and they were very annoyed to be disturbed by the younger kids banging on doors in the hallway. These older students only have a few classes left before they take their big exams that will determine whether or not they will get their diplomas.