For the past year, the 870,000 teachers and 330,000 National Education staff have been living a nightmare.
No less than four health protocols to which it was necessary to adapt in disaster.
Every day, new instructions fall into the mailboxes of school directors: conditions for closing a class depending on the variants, new rules for sports activities or organization of saliva tests.
High school teachers had to adapt their lessons so that half of their students could follow them by video.
Soon it will be the turn of the colleges.
The list of new tasks is endless and evolving.
But logistics are only part of the problem.
Like caregivers, cashiers or police, teachers feel on the front line when it comes to the virus.
Many go to work with fear in their stomachs because they fear getting sick.
In front of them, children, often asymptomatic, who make you fear the worst: a kindergarten boy without a mask who sneezes in your face, a horde of teenagers gathered in a hallway that you cross ... and in the teachers' room, colleagues who sometimes slip away at lunchtime.
So, of course, under the pressure of the English variant, classes close, positive cases multiply among students and teachers, more and more difficult to replace.
And yet, for the most part, they are still there.
For all of us, they have to hold on.
The President of the Republic promised them this week a vaccination in mid-April.
It was time.
In Italy, the United States or Portugal, teachers are considered a priority on the same basis as caregivers and the very elderly.
Most are therefore already vaccinated.
At the rate announced yesterday by the Minister of Health - 400,000 injections per day - three days would be enough to reach the entire target.