By Adil Essabiti
TUNIS (AA) – Tens of thousands of Tunisian students staged protests on Monday to demand an end to an ongoing teachers' strike.
<p>On Jan. 9, preparatory and secondary school teachers staged demonstrations across the country to demand wage increases and educational reform.</p> <p>Last week, after negotiations broke down between Tunisia’s High School Teachers’ Union and the Education Ministry, teachers announced an open-ended strike countrywide.</p> <p>"The students are being held hostage to our outmoded educational policies,” high school student Lina Bukhari told Anadolu Agency.</p> <p>“If the crisis continues, we won’t be able to take final exams,” she added.</p> <p>In Tunisia, more than 77,000 preparatory and secondary teachers are responsible for teaching some 950,000 students.</p>
