A few days away from packing his bags to see his Normandy again, Adrien sees the clouds gathering over his return to school as director of Segpa, a structure which welcomes the most in difficulty children to colleges. The health protocol for schools seems "completely out of step" in the face of the epidemic figures, and the restrictions which are tightening everywhere. “I hope things will be refreshed, and not at the last minute,” he pleads.
At the Ministry of National Education, it is ensured that three back-to-school scenarios have been prepared and that the "educational continuity plan", that is to say the organization of the distance school if the playgrounds were to close. again, is ready. But it is, it seems, at the local level, that the rue de Grenelle intends to place the cursor: in the coming days, "there will be adaptations of the terms of the start of the school year with meetings between prefects, agencies. regional health and rectors in each region ”, announced this Sunday the National Education.
"We will not be able to make an ordinary comeback"
Modalities expected on a firm footing. "The day of the start of the school year is a day of mixing, but we can clearly see that we will not be able to make an ordinary return: two weeks before the deadline, we need specific answers", urges Guislaine David, spokesperson of the main union of school teachers, the Snuipp-FSU. “We can see that the July rules no longer correspond to the current situation, where the sighted have gone from green to orange, abounds Sophie Venetitay, teacher in Essonne and deputy secretary general of Snes-FSU. We ask that adjustments be made as of this week. "
The last document published by the National Education, July 21, largely lightens the straitjacket, already relaxed, health standards in force in schools, colleges and high schools, at the time of the end of classes in July. The distance of one meter, in particular, is no longer an absolute rule: it only applies… if the size of the premises allows it. As for wearing a mask, it is no longer compulsory for teachers in kindergarten, and in other levels, when the teacher is more than one meter from his students. Likewise, middle and high school students will only cover their noses when they are near their classmates.
Rules that also make the medical world react. On Friday, about twenty doctors published in the daily Liberation, a column asking "the wearing of the compulsory mask in all classrooms", among other closed places, "distance lessons and the reorganization of classes with fewer numbers" .
