The class according to containment will be very different. The "detailed health protocol" which provides the strict measures to govern life in schools and colleges from May 11 will be published on Monday on the website of the Ministry of National Education. It is in fact two documents, about fifty pages, one for primary and nursery schools, the other for secondary schools, the lycées remaining closed for the time being.
Hardly different from the "project" made public last week, this official text will enlighten entangled parents in a frightening puzzle when they are asked right now if they want to put their children in class. “We make parents weigh an impossible choice. These desirable health conditions are immediately untenable, ”plagues Rodrigo Arenas, co-president of the federation of parents of FCPE pupils.
According to the "protocol", pupils and adults alike must respect physical distances of one meter everywhere: in the classroom, in the courtyard, in the corridors, etc.
The compulsory mask in certain cases
It will be up to the communities and school heads to assess accommodation capacities according to the areas and development possibilities. "For example, a room of 50 m2 should accommodate 16 people," say the documents. "The recovery will not be easy for anyone, but this protocol has been sufficiently concerted so that we can reopen each one according to their possibilities", believes, prudent, Pascale Le Flem, academic secretary of SNPDEN, the union of heads of secondary schools .
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Philippe Raynaert, director of a large primary school in Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine), in the suburbs, raises another problem: "As we are classified REP + (reinforced priority education network), the pupils are 11 per class in CP and CE1. Under these conditions, they could all resume. But it is still necessary that the teachers can come back to work, that the municipal staff also… ”
No more ball games, cats ... The mask will be compulsory for adults "in contact with children", as well as for pupils from the 6th grade in situations where it will be difficult to stand 1 meter apart. , especially in the corridors. In kindergarten, on the contrary, wearing a mask is "to be avoided", in primary it is "not recommended". Because the smallest would risk choking with this small piece of fabric.
Collective equipment removed from the rooms
No more library books at the back of the room, no chalk, felt, no dinette, no construction toys, collective material will have to be removed from the classes. "In these conditions, putting them back in class is not surely making school phobia? »Wonders Maud, mother of two girls in a large section and in CE1 in Paris.
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In the playground, contact and ball games will be prohibited like access to the slides, impossible to disinfect non-stop. As for meals, they should be taken as much as possible in the classes, to avoid the rush of the canteen. Students must wash their hands before and after each meal, upon arrival, before and after each visit to the toilet, after recess, after blowing their nose, coughing or sneezing, after having "handled possibly contaminated objects", and before going home.
Many professionals anticipate the difficulties and pitfalls of implementing these procedures. But the challenge is more to train for September and back to school. "It is not tomorrow the day before that we will kiss the wind to vague knowledge, our relationship with the other will change durably, believes Pascale Le Flem, it will also be our role to teach it to these generations. "