With the expansion of the coronavirus, the difficult implementation of distance education

Home school for 12 million students? For Sarah and Sophie, high school students in Obernai (Haut-Rhin) it has been a reality for a week. They connect with their teachers daily via EcoleDirecte. Little Chiara, 7, takes her lessons from the Klassroom platform with the help of her sisters, while their parents, doctors, continue to work.

These independent young girls used to handle these tools before the closure of their establishments. They "have become almost systematic, at least in middle and high schools ", confirms Philippe Vincent, secretary general of SNPDEN-Unsa. With a big downside: these digital tools usually serve mainly as electronic text books for evening homework.

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Not all teachers fill them out. And technophile teachers preparing documents and videos remain a minority, such as Philippe Watrelot, professor of economics at the Jean-Baptiste-Corot high school in Savigny-sur-Orge (Essonne).

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