Education: not easy to bring back dropouts

They were to be eight, they are finally seven. Seven pupils of 6th and 5th of the college Henri-Dunant of Evreux to sweat this Thursday morning under the orders of Kevin June and Franck Deleger, two sports educators of the local rugby club. "Memodi is not there, he should not have woken up," points out Emmy Lemesle, the EPS teacher, also a dropout representative. For three quarters of an hour, the four girls and three boys do the push-ups, the races and the sheathing exercises. Rugby without ball, and in compliance with the rules imposed by the health protocol of national education and the French Rugby Federation.

It is forbidden to touch each other, to take the pads in hand or to exchange water bottles. For these preadolescents who have not set foot in college since the start of confinement, it is a resumption of contact with the school environment which takes place within the framework of the Sport - Health - Culture - Civic system (2S2C). "All the students who were there said no to going back to college," says Emmy Lemesle. They started the first session on Wednesday and we are hopeful that they will return to school once the parents are reassured. It is clearly a support device for returning to class. If we do not succeed, it allows us at least to review them. "

Not easy to set the record straight

School dropouts, students with reduced performance or variable attendance during virtual classes, all these college students have in common to observe a distended relationship with education since March 16. "Dakary has dark circles this morning, he must have gone to bed late," notes principal Thi Hoa Phuong Lefevre. "During confinement, I got up at 2 or 3 pm," said this pupil, who was enrolled in 5th grade. But there I resume my habits, I wake up around 11 hours. If I came back to college today, it's because I like sports. But I think that I will continue the courses on the Internet, even if sometimes I am a little lost. Léa, a pupil of 6th grade, comes to the same conclusion. “My parents don't want me to come back to college and I don't really want to. And then I get to work at home. "

At the entrance to the college, the students discover the reality of deconfinement: physical distancing and distribution of hydroalcoholic gel. LP / Arnaud Dumontier  

A few meters away, Anastasia, Mattheo and Salomon, three other students, are developing a radio podcast. In videoconference with a school assistant and a Spanish teacher, they imagine from their home the questions of their report on life in college at the time of the coronavirus. This is the culture component of the 2S2C system. "Some of them have lost the link with teaching and, there, we are gathering them around a project," explains Emeline Queunioux, the teacher. We hope to hang them up and in the meantime we work on speaking, writing, digital skills and self-confidence. "

A necessity to comply with the health protocol

Located in the Netreville district, in a priority education network, the Henri-Dunant college currently welcomes 53 students out of the 200 educated in 6th and 5th years. This figure will be raised to 72 next Tuesday, and will increase again with the return of the 4th and 3rd from June 8. For the principal, this 2S2C module will enable her to organize the days of her college students in a rational manner. "It is clearly a lever to welcome the 4th and 3rd, explains the manager. As I cannot receive everyone in class because of the health protocol, I am obliged to set up this type of sessions and integrate them into the timetables. "

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