HELP!!! My students are on strike!!

That's right...you heard me...my students are on strike. Is that even possible? And we have had many, many disruptions due to striking students. To start off, yesterday, I awoke to find most of the school assembled outside surrounded by about 15 gendarmes. They then struck out in the direction of the bridge that connects us to the island. Weird. But today was even weirder. I woke up early for my 8:30 class only to have it interrupted every two minutes. One of my students handed me a pamphlet outlining their reasons for striking on my way to class...I should have known then. They were protesting a major change in curriculum set to take place next school year. Apparently, it would cut a lot of cultural classes. And the way the French school system works, these changes were decided by the government and the schools have to scramble to figure out how to implement them. About 10 minutes into class, once we had finally gotten everybody assembled (french students are perpetually late), we started hearing yelling in the courtyard. The first rumblings of "la greve" (a strike...if you ever visit France, learn that word well...it bodes ill.). Welp, to start things off, they pulled the fire alarm. So, we had to go outside. I would have ignored it, but something about it being illegal to remain indoors during a fire alarm made me go outside. When the surveillants told us it was ok to go back inside, I started rounding my students up, prying girls away from boyfriends in other classes, and herding them all back in, amidst a general grumbling. One student yelled at me, "Mais madame! C'est une greve!" (But ma'am! It's a strike!). And I responded, "Je suis americaine. Il n'y a pas de greves aux Etats-Unis." (I'm American. We don't have strikes in America.). So...finally getting the class reassembled, I tried to recommence the lesson. But this time, some girls came in and made all of my students vote if they were for or against the strike. I must say I'm very grateful to my class. They were all against the strike, so they remained in their seats as all hell broke loose. After this, the strikers started marching up and down the halls, throwing open the doors to every classroom. One of my students got mad, slammed it closed, and when it was opened again, promptly chewed out the person who opened the door. So...I'm curious to see what will happen in my other classes today...will I even have class today? After I dismissed the class, I looked out the window to see about 50 students or so marching toward the bridge again, surrounded by police cars. This time they were carrying banners. My last view of them they had started to run. I get this sneaking suspicion that most don't care about the issue...they just like to strike. They are french, what can I say?