Edouard Philippe was still in the middle of a speech on deconfinement, this Tuesday April 28, that Jean-Luc Massalon, in front of his television, was planning: "I could take a group of nine students on Monday, another on Tuesday, ten children on Thursday , and go to school at a distance with everyone on Friday ... "Go back to the courtyard: this CM2 teacher, director of a rural school in the Somme, in his dream, he who lost" about a third "of 175 students from his establishment, with subscribers absent from educational continuity, since the start of confinement against the Covid-19 epidemic.
In his constituency, as in many municipalities, the inspection must bring together teachers, parents and local authorities this Thursday, April 30. The list of practical questions promises to be long. An example ? "If we stagger the arrivals of children to avoid them crossing, how will the parents of siblings, who will have to recover one at 4:15 pm and the other at 4:30 pm? "
Sylvie (the first name has been changed), a teacher in a Paris nursery school, asks herself another question: "Why are we the first to open, in primary school?" The teacher is currently classing a small group of caregivers' children, in good conditions. The little ones have learned to sit on the stickers, placed at intervals of one meter, on the benches placed in front of the board. They also easily got used to the mistress' mask.
But the respect of the rules requires an "incredible energy", and it sometimes borders on the impossible mission, in the playground. "Do I put myself in danger by going to work?" I don't know, says Sylvie. I go there without fear, but also without certainty. "
Anne-Christine, professor of letters in high school, no longer has to worry about the "risk" for her students or for herself: the high schools will remain closed at least until June. "It's a relief," she concedes, "but it also raises questions: there is, in fact, no more than the third quarter. "
For her, the emergency lies above all… in preparing for the start of the new school year in September: “Will we still be able to work with classes of 35 students in 40m2? We must ask ourselves the question now if we do not want to also lose the first quarter of next year, ”she warns.
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"The school will become a daycare center to revive the economy"
“So it is my husband and I who will have to choose whether my son returns to CP class or not, on May 11th… But I am a cashier, not an epidemiologist! How am I supposed to know what's best for him? Asks Rosa, in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (Val-de-Marne). Like her, many parents no longer know which way to dance after the Prime Minister's speech concerning the gradual return to schools.
“This choice, what a responsibility for parents!” Abounds Isabelle Pinatel, FCPE manager, the main federation of parents, in Aude. And we stop with this speech back to school for "academic success", the "fight against dropping out" ... It is the youngest, therefore the least autonomous, who come first to allow parents to resume work. The school will become a daycare center to boost the economy. Why not, I can understand it, but let it be said! ", Urges this mother of four children attending primary school, 5th, 2nd and university.
These four girls will stay at home. “Going back to school is a good thing for students who are dropping out or suffering in their families. Mine is not part of a so-called fragile audience, so my daughters will not overload the classes. It would be irresponsible of me. And then back to school, what for? Asks the manager.
"No week is going to be the same"
“The parents of students are very divided between those who absolutely want recovery and others who are very afraid of it, says Gaëlle Lallouet, FCPE manager in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine). Our watchword is simple: if the sanitary conditions are not guaranteed, no reopening of the establishment. And then will all the teachers be able to class? It's very complicated. "
Julie, mother of four children schooled in Paris (12th) in a large kindergarten, 6th, 4th and 3rd section, is already tearing her hair out with the schedule and these “comebacks” offbeat. “No week is going to be the same. And for the youngest, how will they succeed in enforcing the barrier measures? The children will not have seen each other for two months. We will not be able to hold them! She breathes. The mother also wonders about the organization of classroom lessons. Two of his daughters are hard of hearing and follow them a lot on the lips of the teachers. "If they wear masks, how are they going to do it?" "