Who's next ?
After the students, reconfigured since the beginning of November, their little brothers and sisters are getting ready to stay, a little more often, at home behind their screens.
From this Monday, by virtue of a "reinforced" health protocol, some of the high schools reduce their reception capacities and spend some distance learning, so as to limit the crowds in the classes, on the forecourt, in the canteen. ...
The measure was announced Thursday by Jean-Michel Blanquer, the Minister of National Education in order to give up ballast to teachers worried about the silent spread of the Covid-19 epidemic in their overcrowded classes.
A first adjustment of the 2021 baccalaureate is also recorded.
The "common tests" planned for 1st and 12th grade students during the year will not take place - high school graduates will be assessed at 40% on their school reports alone, and at 60% on final tests, maintained at this time. day.
Seen backpacks, these announcements sign the return of school in dotted lines, video lessons… and stressed parents.
Because behind the technical adjustment of the organization of schools, looms a question, decisive for the daily life of families: is home schooling on the way back?
While all high schools are far from having yet taken advantage of the possibility of half-group lessons, the idea is on the table of many establishments.
"We have the feeling that the idea is spreading, among the principals of colleges as well," assures Rodrigo Arenas, the co-president of the federation of parents of FCPE students, who has been calling since August for the establishment of "third places" for welcome, under the responsibility of animators, children who are not in class.
“Parents are not teachers, it is not their role to home school!
“, He insists, echoing the painful moments experienced by many parents, forced to juggle between telework and care of their children, during the first confinement.
A warning strike this Tuesday
Several teachers' unions are already asking for the possibility of half-groups to be extended to colleges and primary schools.
“Our goal is that schools can remain open throughout the school year.
For this, we must take measures that allow us to face the successive waves of the virus announced this winter, ”argues Guislaine David, spokesperson for Snuipp-FSU, the main organization of school teachers.
This Tuesday, an inter-union call in this sense for a "warning strike" at all levels of the school system.
And for a week, under the keyword “balance your protocol”, photos of crowded playgrounds have been popping up on social networks, as if to confront the Ministry of National Education with a laissez-faire perceived as a denial of reality .
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"This is false, the minister knows the reality, simply faced with a Ministry of Health who would like to close classes further, he has chosen to postpone as much as possible the moment to pass to half-groups, decrypts a close to Jean's cabinet -Michel Blanquer.
Its goal is the same as that of the unions, to avoid closure!
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The prospect thrills parents' associations, themselves divided internally between supporters of maximum health security, and defenders of a general reception of children.
"Two disrupted school years in a row, this will end up weighing on the ability of students to succeed in their higher education", fears Hubert Salaün, president of the PEEP.
"The health protocol is not ideal, the mask from 6 years old is not easy for children but we would have everything to lose by closing the classes, abounds Gilles Demarquet, the spokesperson for the main association of parents of private students, Apel.
The establishments must be left as open as possible ”.