"We must not let the French believe that all the little schoolchildren will go back to school, simply because it is not possible if we want to respect health standards correctly". This is what the mayor of Nantes, Johanna Rolland, estimated on France Inter this Saturday.
. @ Johanna_Rolland mayor of Nantes was at the microphone of @ EricDelvaux and Patricia Martin in # le69WE: “This crisis demonstrates the need for local leeway" https://t.co/IzOOLNcsoh#covid19 pic.twitter.com / PdNHb5AMt7
- France Inter (@franceinter) May 2, 2020The return of children will therefore be “progressive”, insisted the councilor of Loire-Atlantique, who deplored “a little blur on the side of the State”.
Government Must "Stay Clear"
“Many mayors were organized according to the first announcements from the Minister of National Education, who told us that the CP, CE1 and CM2 would return to school. A few days later: change of program. The Prime Minister did not adopt these guidelines, "she noted.
"Thousands of municipalities have worked on a plan that must be reviewed," added Johanna Rolland, calling on the government to "stay on course." The mayor of Nantes also assured that the city "would not take any risk". "If there are places where we cannot do it, we will say so."
The day before, in an interview with Le Figaro, Jean-Michel Blanquer affirmed that "the majority of nursery and primary schools" will reopen on May 11, the date of the start of progressive deconfinement in National Education.
