“Right now, it's nonsense.
At the slightest alert, a cough or a runny nose, we send your children home, ”breathes Anna, who had to leave her job Tuesday to urgently pick up her son from school for a simple headache.
Alexandra confirms.
This medical visitor has been stranded at home for ten days.
She must take care of her daughter identified as a "contact case".
“And this week it was my oldest college calling for a little fever.
In the end, both are negative.
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According to figures released this Friday evening by the Ministry of Education, more than 5,000 proven cases of Covid-19 have already been recorded in the past seven days among students.
Patients who can lead until the closure of their establishment, particularly at the primary level where the rules are stricter.
To add fuel to the wheels, the government decided to relax the health protocol in force from kindergarten to CM2.
Children with low contamination
This Friday, around 10 p.m., the new text was still not published.
But as early as Thursday, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran had explained, based on an opinion from the High Council for Public Health (HSCP), that young children were unlikely to contaminate each other and contaminate adults.
As a result, if a schoolboy tested positive, he had to continue to be isolated, but his fellow students had to be able to continue to attend school normally.
Which was not the case until now.
“We can say that children are not very contaminants, we cannot say that they are not contaminants.
Otherwise why did the Prime Minister call on grandparents not to pick up their grandchildren from school?
»Asks Guislaine David, general secretary of SnuiPP-FSU.
For the head of the main union of the first degree, "to relax the rules like that, while everywhere they are toughened, it is incomprehensible.
The only justification for all of this is economic.
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0.11% of sick among teachers
The government is not hiding it: while the epidemic continues to progress, it wants to limit student absences as much as possible in order to allow parents to continue working normally.
“It's a risky strategy, warns Guislaine David.
This exposes the teachers, but also the families and there will be tragedies.
For the time being, contaminations among teachers remain low: 1,307 cases confirmed over the last 7 days among the staff of National Education, which represents 0.11% of patients.
If it softens the primary, the ministry, according to our information, does not however affect the rules in force in colleges or high schools.
“At the same time, doing less would be difficult,” Judge Bruno Bobkiewicz, head of a suburban school complex and union official at SNPDEN.
In secondary school, it still takes three proven cases in the same class for it to close, while at school only one is enough for everyone to then be considered as a contact case.
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A double weight, two measures which is justified, among other things, by wearing a mask in class, compulsory only from 6th grade.
"The best would be to impose it everywhere", suggests Bruno Bobkiewicz,