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Children allowed to miss school… a prelude to a closure?

2020-12-15T11:40:46.370Z


The Prime Minister's announcement on a tolerance left to families who do not wish to send their children to class on Thursday and Friday


"The virus does not circulate more in schools today than yesterday ..." we slip to the Ministry of National Education.

But that of fear, certainly.

The announcement by the Prime Minister this Tuesday morning of a possibility left to families to keep their children at home Thursday and Friday, has just reopened Pandora's box of doubt under the courtyards.

According to the declarations of Jean Castex, on Europe 1, and the opinion of the scientific council published Monday evening, the national education passed the following instruction this Tuesday morning to the rectors of the academy: the absence of schoolchildren, college or high school students will be "Tolerated" this weekend, without being recommended or encouraged.

An email sent quickly to the rectors of the academy

"Absences on December 17 and 18 will not be penalized but these absences will be reported upstream," said the email sent to the academies, hastily.

This had not yet had time, Tuesday in the middle of the morning, to be transmitted to the schools.

The message also invites schools to "be vigilant" on increased compliance with barrier measures, in canteens in particular.

"Festive and collective events will be avoided", finally indicates the mail.

These measures strongly resemble a crest line, found by the national education to hold together two contradictory positions: the political will hammered since September to keep the classes open as much as possible ... and the prudent opinion of the scientific council, which encourages families wishing to find their loved ones for the holidays to self-confine a week.

The announcement has caught everyone in schools, and already raises a torrent of questions, and recriminations.

The Snuipp-FSU, the main primary union, plans to demand the outright closure of schools two days ahead of the holidays.

"If there is a risk we must protect everyone"

“If there is a risk, we must protect everyone and therefore close the schools by allowing everyone to telecommute, including teachers.

Why shouldn't they, too, be entitled to a protected Christmas?

"Pleads Guislaine David, the spokesperson for the teachers' union, who shoots red balls on" a measure that comes too late ", which" disrupts the school and families "and incidentally," passes the work of teachers for a daycare activity ”.

And Guislaine David to ask now "that we think about postponing the resumption of classes on January 4, as Germany did."

If it is necessary, to avoid a very strong rebound in the epidemic, it must be anticipated now.

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The specter of a return to hard confinement that would also affect the classes, as in March, is back.

"This is what everyone fears, confirms Stéphane Crochet, of the reformist teachers' union SE-Unsa who also considers" more and more uncertain "a resumption of face-to-face classes on January 20 for students and high school students, submitted since weeks in online or small group classes.

According to the latest weekly situation update on Covid, published Friday, December 11 by the Ministry of Education, only 14 schools, 3 colleges and 125 classes were closed last week due to clusters.

Among students, 4,548 cases of contamination were identified in one week, and 754 among staff.

But these reassuring figures are taken with a distance by many teaching teams, because the contaminations of children often remain asymptomatic and "go largely under the radar", estimates Guislaine David.

Source: leparis

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