.. do students occupy schools

It's part of being a student. You can't say you have attended a Greek school unless you have experienced a sit-in.

A sit-in involves students occupying a school and preventing teachers from entering in order for their demands to be met.

Don't get me wrong, if anyone can get Greece out of the mess it's in now, it's definitely the new generation. I am support them 100%. We cannot expect our youth to blindly accept an educational system that does not work. One where if parents cannot afford tutoring, they are doomed to fail.

 What worries me is who initiates these sit-ins. It's widely believed that teachers are behind them. It's no coincidence that the latest sit-ins were scheduled on they days they were. They started on a Monday and had an expiry date from the beginning (the kids knew they would be forced to give in). The coincidence is that the sit-ins would end the day before the teacher's were holding their elections. A day on which no lessons are held throughout the country, giving teachers -who will get paid anyway- and students a total of 5 days without work/school.

What's even more saddening is watching these kids speak to the press and reading their letters of complaint sent to the minister of Education. It's obvious that schools are failing.