Noah's schedule (
first name has been changed
).
has become as light as an autumn leaf.
This 3 rd student, educated at the Frédéric-Mistral college in Avignon (Vaucluse), only has half of the week.
The decision was taken on Monday, in this downtown establishment, so as to avoid the crowds of children in the middle of the second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic.
"This week, he has lessons Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and next week, it will be Monday and Tuesday," explains the father of the teenager.
His teachers gave him homework to do at home.
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Will this “hybrid” organization soon be the norm?
For the time being, the hypothesis does not meet with overflowing enthusiasm in the hierarchy of National Education.
"We do not encourage it, but those who wish can do so," said the minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer, on Sunday, in an interview with Le Parisien.
Strikes, blockades and withdrawal rights
Many teachers and heads of establishments, stunned to continue to accommodate 100% of their staff in full reconfinement, are calling for a change of footing from the ministry.
Since Monday, the anger has multiplied: rights of withdrawal, walkouts, strikes ...
“We are asked to go back to school as if nothing had happened, with a protocol in which everything is subject to
if possible
.
However, in a college of 630 students built for 400, nothing is so possible ”, tackle Pierre Millet, professor (union member at Snes) at the Delaume de Bobigny college (Seine-Saint-Denis), blocked this Tuesday.
In the primary, an inter-union of teachers launched a "social alert", warning shot before a possible strike.
The group of teachers from the Clément-Ader high school in Tournan-en-Brie (Seine-et-Marne) voted to strike since Monday./DR.
The ministry published on Monday a "reinforced" health protocol which requires schools, colleges and high schools to clean and ventilate the premises more frequently, as well as "limiting the mixing of pupils between different groups".
The 8-page document refers to each establishment the responsibility of organizing this non-mixing, which must be effective Monday, November 9.
It is the great return of the directions of movement in the corridors and staggered recreations.
"The war of masks"
"We are going to shift the schedules of half of our students by half an hour: instead of being 1,200 going to class or to the canteen, they will be twice 600. This will reduce the flow, and we continue. to put frost everywhere and wage a war of masks on the students, ”says Nicole Ozeray, principal of the Alfred-Nobel high school in Clichy-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), who fears the devastating effects of a new school confinement for his students, who are socially fragile.
But these adjustments, in other places, are deemed either impossible or insufficient.
“To respect the distance between the students in the canteen, we would have to start the service at 10:30 am… A little early for lunch, right?
»Notes Lysiane Gervais, principal of the Cousteau high school in Saint-André-de-Cubzac (Gironde), and member of the SNPDEN-Unsa union.
And to plead for "a national decision" on the passage of the classes in half-group, and "a reduction of the school programs".
Avoid complete closure
"It is better to organize classes now every other week rather than find themselves in two weeks to completely close the high schools," adds Élodie Durieu, teacher at the Newton high school in Clichy-la-Garenne (Hauts-de-Seine) who, this Tuesday , decided with his colleagues to exercise his right of withdrawal.
If it states from the outset that "the principle is that of welcoming all students, at all levels and throughout school time", the health protocol leaves a margin for establishments: "If the health situation local area justifies it or if an establishment with regard to its size and its organization is not able to respect the rules laid down by this protocol, distance learning may be partially implemented, with the agreement and support from the rectorate ”, we read on page 6.
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VIDEO. In Paris, high schools blocked to obtain stricter health measures
But on the ground, the case seems a little more complicated.
At the Antoine-Bourdelle high school in Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne), for example, a large school complex with 2,800 students, the team asked for the transition to half-groups, "but the rectorate refuses it for the moment", says Dominique Lafargue, professor in the establishment.
In vocational high schools (LP), "half-groups are being set up almost everywhere, but internally: the hierarchy is not necessarily informed", indicates Pascal Vivier, the spokesperson for the main union LP teachers (Snetaa-FO).
In Bordeaux (Gironde), the Montesquieu high school had planned a hybrid organization for the start of the school year ... but the academic director asked him to "work first on a project: nothing had been presented to me upstream", assures François Coux, for whom the half-groups could only be deployed at homeopathic dose.
On his desk, three requests are being considered at the moment.
At the rectorate of Versailles, the largest academy in France, "no agreement has been given at this stage" to "some projects" which were presented.