Isabelle turned off her television, more than astonished. "Stunned," she says, before the announcement of the President of the Republic to reopen schools "gradually" from May 11. Far from reassuring her, the prospect of driving Madeline to CP, Marine to college, and Manon to high school, gave her cold sweats. As for her elder Morgane, a student, recovering from the Covid-19, "she wonders why she will be the only one in the family to stay at home".
But it is mainly for her younger siblings that Isabelle worries. "How are we going to do it?" Schools will have to be irreproachable in terms of health… and I am not sure that this is possible, ”reflects this mother, responsible for the federation of parents of FCPE pupils in her department, Aude.
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The prospect of a reorganization of "time and space" school, mentioned by the Head of State, also leaves skeptical this employee of large area, who like her husband, delivery driver, is forced to leave the house to to go to work. "Are we going to draw the straw on days when children go to school, days when their parents can go to work?" "She annoys herself, convinced that" only those who have no other choice will put their children in school ... I in any case, if I can, I will keep my daughters. "
Lydia, in Perpignan, did not wait for the white smoke from the Elysée to decide: "My children will not go back to school before September. Too risky, ”decided in the afternoon this mother of two boys aged 16 and 8, whose youngest, disabled, has to cope with fragile health.
“I find the president very optimistic, abounds Delphine, professor in CP in a large school in the Paris region. “I don't imagine my students respecting barrier gestures, they are too young, and there are 480 adults and children in my school… I admit that it scares me very much. "
"It will pass quickly now that we have a date"
At Anne-Cécile's, on the contrary, in Charenton-le-Pont (Val-de-Marne), the croque-monsieur was toasted with enthusiasm, after the address by the Head of State. Quickly, this mom went to warn her three little ones, ages 2, 6 and 10, that school would resume in four weeks. "It will pass quickly, now that we have a date: we are going to get there", rejoices this framework in professional retraining, which these last days, worried that a too long confinement, with the family tensions which the support, do not undermine his motivation to pass next year the competition of ... school teacher.
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"My daughters are delighted to soon find the friends of the nursery and school: it is important, socialization at their age", she salutes, while accumulating on her laptop, on the wire discussion of parents of students, messages of relief.
For Lola too, the prospect of May 11 acts as a balm to the heart. "I find that although the resumption of lessons, and the question of inequalities between students, is a priority for the president, believes this Parisian high school student, in terminal L. It is also a relief: I tell myself that this is not is not that bad to be not very efficient when you work at home, if you come back to class soon. "
But of course, it is also the prospect of "seeing friends again, and saying goodbye to high school" which delighted her. A moment all the more important for her that her generation will have been deprived, she regrets, of "the initiation rite" of the final baccalaureate exams.
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