On October 11, the teachers' strike concentrated on a mass meeting in Sofia on ploshtad Nezavisimost (Independence square) and a blockade of Sofia's city centre.

Teachers formed a ring of protesters around the building of the National Assembly in the centre of Sofia. Besides teachers, forest workers and rangers took part in the ring.  The protesters shouted "retirement".

Chairperson of the Bulgarian Teachers’ Union (BTU) Yanka Takeva said that 75 000 teachers had come to the protests. After today Bulgaria would no longer be the same, after today conversations would be different, Takeva said.
The protesters overflowed ploshtad Narodno Subranie (National assembly square) into boulevard Tsar Osvoboditel, but were not allowed in the security zone directly surrounding the building of the parliament.

Just before 16.00, Speaker of Parliament Georgi Pirinski came out of the National Assembly together with Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) representative Angel Naidenov, BSP parliament member Mihail Mikov, president of the committee for education and science in the National Assembly Lyutvi Mestan and chairman of the BSP Rumen Ovcharov. Pirinski spoke to the protesters, saying that he would accept the declaration of the protesters. He said he would make sure any agreement between government and the unions would be set in appropriate laws. While he was speaking, protesters were shouting "Mafia".

Stanislav Kosakov from the Committee in support of the teachers and a representative of young scientists from the Bulgarian Academy of Science joined on the stage at plostad Narodno Subranie to express their support for the teachers.

Before announcing the end of a day of protests, the results of the negotiations between the teachers' unions and Education Ministry were announced.
Earlier Takeva had threatened to walk out of the negotiations if Finance Minster Plamen Oresharski would not appear. He had been delayed and showed up only after Takeva's threats.
Nikolai Nikolov, spokesperson of the United national strike committee, said chaos ruled the ministry.
He qualified the negotiations as "a big nothing". "There will only be negotiations if political responsibility is taken, because the decision can only be political," Nikolov said.

Takeva said that the protest would continue tomorrow.

President Georgi Purvanov invited for a meeting in the morning of October 12 Education Minister Daniel Vulchev, Plamen Oresharski, Lyutvi Mestan, Yanka Takeva, chair person of the KNSB union Zhelyazko Hristov, chair person of union KT Podkrepa Konstantin Trenchev,  chair person of the Education union of KT Podkrepa Krum Krumov, chair person of the independent teachers unions under KNSB Asparuh Tomov and chair person of the United national strike committee Zhivka Zheliazkova.

Just before 19.00 the end of the national protest was announced after the teachers held a wake for education.