- On Tuesday the meeting between the representatives of SEASKA and those responsible for the Bordeaux academy ended without result: The French State will no longer accept seats for ikastolas. SEASKA has announced new protests, as well as the need for local institutions to take charge of them.
The association of ikastolas of Ipar Euskal Herria, SEASKA, has more and more students, but is finding it difficult to increase the number of professors that would need to meet this demand. Seaska would need 25 more teachers, and the ministry has given him only five and a half.
In view of this situation, SEASKA has set in motion in recent months a dynamic of rapid mobilizations. In addition, the leaders of SEASKA held talks on Tuesday to try to find solutions to the situation in which they are currently locked. But, for the time being, the representatives of the Bordeaux academy have not shown their willingness to negotiate.
Therefore, SEASKA has announced that it will continue to mobilise: on Saturday they will travel to Pau – also last Friday they were there, in the office of the Academic Inspectorate; and they will meet with the inspector, without results. In addition, the commitment of the institutions of Ipar Euskal Herria to the normalization of the Basque Country will be called for.
According to Garikoitz Goikoetxea in Berria, some institutional movements have been initiated: The Public Institute of the Basque Language (EEP) is studying the possibility of granting extraordinary aid to SEASKA, as confirmed by the president of the institution, BEÑAT Arrabit, journalist in Basque.