The scenario has become a sad national routine: deserted classrooms, blank blackboards, and a youth whose future evaporates with each strike day. In Chad, the social conflict between teachers and the state is no longer a simple passing crisis; it is the agony of an education system on its last legs.

An alarming diagnosis: the school is in intensive care

The Chadian school system is hanging by a thread. Behind the salary demands lies a profound structural decay:

1. Ghost infrastructure: In rural areas, playing truant is not a choice, it's a physical reality. Lacking buildings, classes are held under trees, without benches or basic supplies.
2. Staff shortage: The lack of teachers is critical. Those who remain, often poorly trained and underpaid, work in conditions bordering on heroism or despair.

A trade union movement between divisions and repression

The social front, meant to represent the voice of teachers, is struggling to unite. The fragmented union landscape is losing influence in the face of an increasingly firm government.

Tensions reached a critical point with the imprisonment of the president of the Independent Teachers' Union . This event transformed a struggle for better working conditions into a major political confrontation, illustrating a clear desire to stifle dissent rather than listen to it.

The strategy of force versus dialogue

The time for negotiation is over; now is the time for direct confrontation. Faced with the strikers, the government has brandished its economic weapon: the suspension of wages .

Note: Although the right to strike is enshrined in the Chadian Constitution, this measure deprives teachers of their means of subsistence, further radicalizing positions.

Today we are witnessing a real dialogue of the deaf where the authority of the State is exercised through sanction rather than through proposal.

The price of a sacrificed generation

In this power struggle, who are the real losers?

1. The students: Hostages in a conflict that is beyond their control, they see their right to education violated.
2. Teachers: Torn between defending their dignity and ensuring the financial survival of their families.
3. The nation: By allowing the situation to fester, the country is jeopardizing its own development.

Inaction and contempt are the true ills that are eating away at education. If the government, the guarantor of the country's future, does not change its stance, it is not just a "lost year" that threatens Chad, but the outright sacrifice of an entire generation.