Ten minutes past six in the morning, in rue Larbi Ben M’hidi, a boy and a girl, satchels on their backs, hurried up to join their nanny. On the train passing through Hussein Dey, after 6:00 a.m., a child barely 8 years old, accompanied by his mother, continues to sleep, waiting for the next stop.

These two scenes are far from summing up the hardship of thousands of children torn from their sleep two or even three hours before the start of class. A situation which eventually normalized, but which pains parents unable to do anything against the "wild" rules of urban life, known as modern.

In Algiers, working parents wage a real battle every day or so. That of reconciling professional life and children's education. For lack of suitable infrastructure and plans capable of accommodating parents and their offspring, children in school are subjected to exhausting and unbearable situations. “I wake up my children at 5:30 am. We leave the house at 6:00 am, I take them to the nanny. Before 7:00 am, I am already on the bus, to go to work in the west of Algiers, ”tells us a mother, who lives in the town of Algiers-Center. In the evening, she adds, "I come home at past 5:00 pm, my husband picks them up from school".

The pace of life for this mom and her kids isn't the worst. Others are forced to manage to register them in the communes of their place of work. "They come with me on the train from Birtouta where I live. I registered them on the Hydra side, where I work. My employer was kind enough to let them wait for me inside the company ... "said another young woman.