# Guadeloupe student speaks out about school conditions

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2107004195391848735
- Source account: [@Papaquipaie](https://x.com/Papaquipaie)
- Source language: French
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:14
- Published: 2026-10-05
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/48BVS6B2yrsJ/en/guadeloupe-student-speaks-out-about-school-conditions
- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/48BVS6B2yrsJ/fr/guadeloupe-une-%C3%A9l%C3%A8ve-d%C3%A9nonce-les-conditions-%C3%A0-l-%C3%A9cole.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/48BVS6B2yrsJ/en/guadeloupe-student-speaks-out-about-school-conditions) The problem with school, is that it's an endless cycle.

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/48BVS6B2yrsJ/en/guadeloupe-student-speaks-out-about-school-conditions?t=3) There are 35 of us in a class, it's 35 degrees, and sometimes we can't, we can't sleep in class because the teachers don't agree with that.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/48BVS6B2yrsJ/en/guadeloupe-student-speaks-out-about-school-conditions?t=10) You see, I spend more time at school than at home.

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/48BVS6B2yrsJ/en/guadeloupe-student-speaks-out-about-school-conditions?t=14) So, uh, I understand that school, it's important, that I need to learn, but it's not by stuffing us, stuffing us like geese that we're going to learn more.

[0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/48BVS6B2yrsJ/en/guadeloupe-student-speaks-out-about-school-conditions?t=23) And then, we arrive late because there's the cafeteria too.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/48BVS6B2yrsJ/en/guadeloupe-student-speaks-out-about-school-conditions?t=26) We have an hour's break, and that, that's not normal either.

[0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/48BVS6B2yrsJ/en/guadeloupe-student-speaks-out-about-school-conditions?t=29) Every day, we do the same thing, we wake up, eat, go to school, do our homework, sleep.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/48BVS6B2yrsJ/en/guadeloupe-student-speaks-out-about-school-conditions?t=33) It takes us 20 minutes to start a class. Why?

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/48BVS6B2yrsJ/en/guadeloupe-student-speaks-out-about-school-conditions?t=34) Because we went to change tables, chairs in another room because we have too many in the room. We're suffocating, we're fainting, we're having asthma attacks. The nurse, she's hardly ever there. Okay?

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/48BVS6B2yrsJ/en/guadeloupe-student-speaks-out-about-school-conditions?t=44) We're sick of it. We're sick of it. Even our clothes, they shit on our clothes. Not even our clothes, our bodies that wear the clothes.

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/48BVS6B2yrsJ/en/guadeloupe-student-speaks-out-about-school-conditions?t=50) You can even say, "Maybe she, she'll wear, uh, she'll wear a tank top, we won't do anything to her." Me, I wear a tank top, they say my chest is showing in the middle of something.

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/48BVS6B2yrsJ/en/guadeloupe-student-speaks-out-about-school-conditions?t=56) We can't spend time with our family. We wake up, it's dark, we get home, it's dark.

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/48BVS6B2yrsJ/en/guadeloupe-student-speaks-out-about-school-conditions?t=60) That's not normal. We have the right to take action too, actually.

[1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/48BVS6B2yrsJ/en/guadeloupe-student-speaks-out-about-school-conditions?t=63) We have— Just because we're on an island doesn't mean we don't have the right to speak too. When they want to, we're in France. When they don't, we're in Guadeloupe. So we have a say too, actually.