My daughter’s school was blocked this morning, as the result of a day of actions against the persistent and long-term policy of position cuts and hour reductions in the Education budget by the current government of France. The impact on higher education of those cuts is already perceptible in the math background of our first-year students… Not that a few garbage bins piled in front of the high school entrance could make a dent in our governmental policy. Nor on the absurd statistics of the Education minister, Luc Chatel, who goes back to 1980 as a reference year to show “increases and improvements”!