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Published on 01/06/2026 9:46 p.m.
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How to teach frozen children? Many educational establishments are poorly heated or poorly insulated. In some of them the temperature reaches 6 degrees. Report in Orléans and Lyon with Anthony Jolly, Denis Sébastien, Eric Jacquin.
This text corresponds to part of the transcription of the report above. Click on the video to watch it in full.
This is an equation that middle school students from Lyon (Rhône) did not think they would have to solve at the start of the school year. How can you work well when it’s barely 12 degrees inside the classroom? “There are classes where there is really no heating. It’s really cold,” says a student. It is between 12 and 16 degrees in a third of the classes, unacceptable for the teachers. “The students are cold. I spend the day with frozen hands, the students too. We can’t get warm. I find these are complicated working conditions”reacts Adeline Gomez, mathematics professor at Georges Clemenceau college in Lyon.
The problem is not new, according to another teacher. He says he regularly warns about the dilapidation of the building. “The heating system has not worked for years, despite a renovation a few years ago,” assures Marc Rollin, Spanish teacher, Georges Clemenceau college in Lyon – SNES-FSU. The metropolis of Lyon speaks of a specific problem with a boiler and assures that it has just been put back into service. The situation is in any case far from isolated.
At the request of the France Télévisions teams, teachers sent the temperatures recorded in their classroom: 12 degrees in Givors (Rhône), 8 degrees in a college in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), and even 6 degrees in a school in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine). In the Loiret, several establishments have even been closed since Monday January 5, as the temperatures are so cold in the classes. In a high school near Orléans, the heating no longer works because of an ice cube that formed in a pipe. “You can turn on the heating again. If the ice cube is long enough, by the time the ice cube melts, there is no water circulation, therefore no heating”indicates Xavier Lavoisier, director of educational heritage for the Centre-Val-de-Loire regional council. The high school will still be closed on Wednesday. Students should be able to return to class on Thursday.
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