The weight loss program continues.
From this Tuesday, a new reduced health protocol applies in schools, colleges and high schools.
"By force, he will fly away ..." squeaks a teacher, in unison with other of his colleagues, destabilized to see the instructions in National Education become more flexible since the start of the school year, while the government calls by elsewhere to be vigilant at all times in the face of the resumption of the Covid-19 epidemic.
From now on, the closure of a class will only be decided if three positive cases for Covid of children or adults from different families are confirmed in the same class.
One or two confirmed cases will no longer lead to sending all the comrades and the mistress home.
As with a simple flu, the sick child will return to school after a week - unless his symptoms persist.
For his comrades, life will continue as usual: children under 11 and young people and adults wearing a mask are no longer considered "risk contacts", even if they have spent the day next to them. 'a student sick with Covid.
This decision, based on the latest opinion of the High Council for Public Health, according to which "children are little at risk of serious forms and not very active in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2", aims to stem class closures by waterfall, feared by families.
There were this Monday "a little more than 2000", announced at the microphone of RTL the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, as well as 89 primary and secondary schools.
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This decision "comes too late, there is an enormous delay in ignition", grumbles Robert Cohen, pediatrician at the intercommunal hospital of Créteil (Val-de-Marne).
“For three months now, we have known that children are less contaminating, which does not mean that they are not at all.
We could have avoided the closure of many classes.
But the decision comes at the wrong time, while the epidemic starts again: it is inaudible and it passes for a bad decision ”, laments the vice-president of the French Pediatric Society.
In fact, Thomas Bouchet, kindergarten teacher in Firminy (Loire), has trouble understanding.
"We are told that if there is a case in our class, we go back to work without asking any questions ... But the Covid is not gastro, we do not know how we will react if we catch it.
However, I cannot comfort my small section students from afar.
This worries us, along with my colleagues.
We don't feel considered.
"
The feeling of "being a bit of a fuse"
"The problem is above all that the mistrust is such between teachers and the institution that they no longer believe in what is asked", affirms Elisabeth Kutas, spokesperson for the Snuipp-FSU union in Paris.
According to her, "teachers are buying their own masks because they do not trust those of the National Education".
Here is that hovers in the masters room the impression "of being a bit of fuses", summarizes Christophe Gruson, national secretary of the Snalc union in the first degree, rather dubious: "We are betting on the fact that everything is fine. go well… "
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In his school of Artix (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), Alain Chaillet did the accounts.
"I had to call 38 families last week to tell them that they were in
contact
with a municipal employee who tested positive," explains the director, elected to the SE-Unsa union.
With the new rules, the list of people considered at risk, to be sent to health authorities, will drop to zero.
»And to wonder: should we recall to class the children placed in solitary confinement under the old rules?