“Maybe I'll stop being scared by going to work.
Good news!
Coline, a kindergarten teacher in Pas-de-Calais, does not hide her joy.
Within a month, she will be able to claim the vaccine against Covid-1 9. "A breath of fresh air", summarizes this teacher "locked up all day" with 25 children without a mask - kindergarten obliges - potentially asymptomatic carriers of the virus.
It was the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, who announced it this Tuesday noon, during a visit to a vaccination center in Valenciennes (North).
“From mid-end of April, we will have more and more vaccines coming, this will allow us to consider having targeted campaigns on professions that are exposed, to which we ask for efforts.
Teachers are legitimately part of it, ”explained the Head of State, alongside Minister of Health Olivier Véran.
A real announcement, after a long procrastination on this subject demanded by all the teachers' unions.
At the beginning of January, the Minister of National Education had announced "desirable" this priority to the vaccine for teachers "from March" ... but without this materializing.
Mid-April, it is also the set objective of vaccinating 10 million French people.
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Who will be affected?
"Too early to say it", answers the entourage of Jean-Michel Blanquer, contacted this Tuesday afternoon.
Is it only the 870,000 or so teachers who will benefit from it, or all those involved in the school environment, in particular the 54,000 Atsem dedicated to supporting kindergartens?
“The work is now starting to define all this”, we repeat Rue de Grenelle.
On the work table, the criteria under study relate, in addition to the type of profession, to the school level selected or even the category likely to be exposed to the most mixing of students.
"Beware of the call once again ..."
As for teachers, we are delighted.
" I did not believe it anymore.
Even if mid-April is far away, the idea is there, ”adds Coline.
“It's great, we've been asking for it for so long,” adds Alice, a CE2 and CM1 teacher in Hauts-de-France.
But to wonder: "It took me three months to find a vaccination appointment for my 82-year-old grandmother who has lung problems… I hope it won't be the same circus for us!"
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A feeling summarized by Sophie Vénétitay, national delegate of Snes-FSU, majority union in the secondary sector, who is pleased that the Head of State has "finally recognized" the exposure to the virus of teachers.
“Symbolically, it's already a step.
But now we need action, ”she tempers, also asking, as soon as possible, for a“ firm schedule ”.
And for good reason: on March 21, Jean-Michel Blanquer had again addressed the question of the vaccination of teachers, evoking… "April, May, June" as a possible horizon.
“June is not April!
This dedicated campaign will have to be effective, because in addition, if we have to wait a month between the first and the second dose, are we sure to be vaccinated before the summer holidays?
Watch out for the call once again… ”warns Coline.
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In addition, for the Snes-FSU, the vaccination of teachers must "integrate all those who intervene at school".
For example, “the supervisors, the main educational advisers”, lists Sophie Vénétitay.
Ditto in the first degree, demands Mélanie, Atsem in Île-de-France: "I would like us to be part of the vaccinated: I have kids who run from their noses every day in my arms, I can't do other !
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