The phone "did not stop ringing" this Monday morning, the switchboard of this Parisian college. At the end of the phone: parents worried about the "compulsory" nature of the return to school for schoolchildren and college students, announced Sunday evening by the Head of State. "Here we are in Biarritz ...", apologized a father. He did not suffer any admonition from the college, and for good reason. "Since I already know that I will not be able to welcome everyone, I have a hidden tendency not to do the forcing to bring back the students ...", confesses the principal.
"Normal" and compulsory, school? Between the behavior of parents, not all departing, and the new relaxed health rules, the details of which should be published on Tuesday by the Ministry of National Education, the return of schoolchildren and schoolchildren may prove to be a little less true in the facts as in speeches.
“In theory, ordinary timetables are starting up again, but in practice it may not be possible everywhere, warns Philippe Vincent, the spokesperson for the main union of school leaders, Snpden-Unsa. I also don't think we're going to be going through very tight absence controls. We will take the students who present themselves, and it will be good already. "
The problem of double tables
At the Ministry of National Education, however, the instruction was given: "We are returning to normal operation, and as usual, an absent student may be subject to sanctions", warns Edouard Geffray, the director general of the school education. But at the end of the year, when classes are traditionally depopulated as July approaches, punishments are rare.
And those who want to return, can they? Even if the instructions are to be open to everyone, this may not be the case everywhere. Because even relaxed, a health constraint remains: it provides, from CP to 3rd, "one side meter" of distance between students in confined spaces, as Jean-Michel Blanquer said on Monday on Europe 1. " The problem is that we have double tables and that we can always put only one student per table: so I will always have only fifteen seats, "calculates Didier Georges (Snpden-Unsa), the head of the college of La Grange aux Belles, in Paris.
In kindergarten, the health instructions could be more flexible than in elementary, and allow an almost normal class life, and the use of play structures, in the lessons. A great relief for Anne (the first name has been changed) who, with her husband, juggled until exhaustion between her job and the care of her two daughters, 3 and 5 years old. “My company doesn't care about my custody issues. Every two days I redo the schedule, and when the conf calls do not fall at nap time, it's really anxiety-provoking, "says this part of the Grenoble region, who worried on Monday not to receive any school news.
"We don't know what to say to parents"
"We're waiting for the instructions." For the moment it's still very vague, so we don't know what to say to the parents, ”explains Nicolas, director in Seine-et-Marne. He especially doubts… the parents' desire to resume the school routine. This is the case of Delphine, who hesitates to send her youngest child to CP, because he must spend the beginning of his vacation at the beginning of July with his grandmother. "For her, I don't want to take the slightest risk," says this resident of Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis).
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Line (the first name has been changed), in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis), has already sent her schoolgirl green, in the south of France, for the whole month. "I asked her to continue working remotely until June 20, promising to leave her alone afterwards," she said. Quiet, it will be de facto: with the resumption of classes, online courses should probably stop, for schoolchildren and college students, at the end of the week.