Overview
- Parents and teachers in Arles reported classrooms at École Montmajour around 8–9°C on Monday morning, with pupils kept in coats, gloves and hats.
- In Carpentras, the Mizé-Pouzol nursery school experienced a boiler breakdown with a classroom measured at about 8°C, and the municipality said the system should be working again by Thursday.
- The Education Ministry told TF1 Info that directors must alert the building owner and that temporary closures can be decided if pupil safety cannot be ensured.
- The mayor of Solignac in Haute-Vienne temporarily closed both local schools on January 4 after a general municipal heating outage, notifying families by mass SMS.
- TF1 Info notes roughly 60,000 schools nationwide, a scale that contributes to scattered winter outages, while some parents in Carpentras used social media to press for faster action.