Strike of October 2, 2025: to whom to expect schools, methods of childhood assistance and school trips

Partially closed schools and an uncertain minimum service

The mobilization of October 2 promises to be enormous in national education. In a letter addressed to families, surprising teachers denounce between the most full classes in Europe and the absence of means for an inclusive school. Concretely, this means that many lessons will remain closed this Thursday.

In kindergarten and primary, the Minimum reception service Theoretically it must be provided by the municipalities when more than 25 % of teachers are on strike. But, in fact, not all municipalities have the means to create this system. Some welcome only a part of the students, others will close the canteens and extracurricular activities, still complicating the day of the family.

In colleges and high schools, there is no minimum service: if too many teachers stop working, the factory can be completely closed.

Paying the methods: solutions to be anticipated

Faced with these partial or total closures, Sometimes parents will have no choice but to find alternative solutions.

Assistants and nursery schools are not directly influenced by the movement, but their transport services can be. As for private childhood assistance structures, they should remain open, but their availability can be very limited if the request explodes.

Many parents are already organizing between neighbors or class groups to provide collective custody. Others try to negotiate a day of telework or a program with their employer.

School trips that promise to be chaotic

As often during great mobilizations, public transport will be the other nerve of war. SNCF, the Ratp and many regional bus networks are already announcing strong ailments. Trains will be less frequent, different urban bus lines could be suspended and the trafficking of metropolises and trams reduced to a minimum.

For children depending on municipal or inter -municipal school transport, supervision is in order: some municipalities warn that cars will not circulate, due to lack of available drivers.

The transport authorities recommend that families provide alternative solutions: walking, cycling, carpooling between parents. In large cities, it is even advisable to completely avoid public transport that day and limit travel to rigorous necessary.

Wider statements than school

This strike day is not limited to education: it is part of an inter -professional mobilization. In a press release published on 24 September, Inter -union National explains that he disappointed a meeting with the Prime MinisterFor lack of clear answers on the 2026 budget project.

The unions require in particular:

• The abandonment of the doubling of medical deductibles, the deindexation of the social benefits and the deletions of the positions of public employees,
• Tax justice, with greater taxation of very high income and great inheritance,
• Budgetary means reinforced for public services,
• High -level social protection and withdrawal of the decline of the age of the legal pension at 64,
• Investments in ecological transition and reindustrialization.