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France 24 reported that Jean-Rémi Girard, president of the SNALC teachers' union, criticised the French government's education reform proposals as vague. Girard argued that the government created most of the problems it now seeks to solve. Girard placed responsibility for France's educational difficulties on years of political decisions rather than only demographic change or fiscal constraints. The debate takes place amid student protests, budgetary uncertainty and concern over educational inequality.