Although the evidence from many years shows that the fact that children are in the classroom does not guarantee their access to education of excellence, if they do not even have classes there is no chance at all. But the leaders of the teachers’ unions are not interested in the well-being of the students, this is clear; otherwise they would use other measures to make their claims, valid or not, instead of indiscriminately depriving of classes the children who have become their virtual hostages.