Should we send the children back to school? Many parents will be faced with this dilemma starting on May 11. While the coronavirus crisis is not over, the Prime Minister confirmed on Tuesday in the Assembly that the return to class will be gradual and will be done on a voluntary basis. Whether dependent or not, certain political figures have already decided. They will not send them - or send them - to school.
"Not a daycare"
"Personally, there would be a little one at home, which is not my case, I would not send him to school," assured Jean-Luc Mélenchon - whose daughter is over 40 years old - from mid-April on BFMTV. “The measure for school, I feel that it was only taken to allow people to return to work. We want them to go back to work because the competition continues between the different economies, " lamented the leader of La France Insoumise, recalling that the school was " not a daycare " .
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Ditto for the president of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, who would not take a risk either for her three daughters. "If I had children (this age), I would not put them back in school on May 11," she said on BFMTV on Monday evening. "I would wait until September because I think it is not reasonable. We are not a month away from school, ” said the former presidential candidate. For her, schools should even be "the last thing we reopen" . " When children are small, the barriers of social distancing it is almost impossible to make them respect ", she insisted, adding that there are "lots of places in which to wash your hands in schools, it is the cross and the banner ” .
"A lot of risk for nothing"
Within the Republicans, the Vaucluse deputy, Julien Aubert, also decided not to send his children on their way to school. "The state does not have to tell me how I raise my children, I am a responsible person ," he warned Tuesday morning on Sud Radio. Martine Vassal, LR president of the Aix-Marseille metropolitan area and of the Bouches-du-Rhône department, had also judged at Le Figaro last week that a reopening of the schools caused "a lot of risks for nothing" . “I react like a mom. I said to myself: 'Would you put your child in college under these conditions? There are too many health concerns, and then all that for a month of school? ” , swept the candidate LR to municipal in Marseille.