School: “late May” decision on reopening of 4th and 3rd year classes

The government will rule "end of May" on the reopening of 4th and 3rd classes in college, after obtaining "total guarantees" in terms of health, said Tuesday evening Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer.

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Asked in the 8:00 p.m. newspaper of TF1 about the reopening of the 4th and 3rd classes in college, the minister said he expected "a point at the end of May" and a decision will be taken "according to the evolution of the health situation and social ” . “We are asking for total health guarantees. For this, we must make assessments notch by notch, so we start with primary school (May 11) and as well as in the grades 6 and 5 (May 18), in the green departments. If we can, we expand, we go further, that is, towards the 4th and 3rd and as well as the high schools, and that we will say at the end of May ", he said, a few hours after the Prime Minister's announcements on deconfinement at school. In his speech, the Prime Minister only mentioned returning to class from May 18 for students in grades 6 and 5. The decision whether or not to reopen high schools in early June would also be made in late May.

Regarding high school students, the minister said he wanted "to assess the situation at the end of May, but it would be possible for them that the school year would be in September", but "it is not at all what that I want, " he said. Jean-Michel Blanquer wished to recall that “staying at home does not mean that you are out of school. Distance education will take on even more intensity for this, ” he continued.

Let each family be informed on May 4

He also insisted on the "national framework" of school deconfinement but "with a lot of local flexibility" . “There are local adaptations. For example, the CP return a week and the week after it is rather CE1. (...). Hence the importance at the moment of the discussions taking place between the National Education and the mayors to advance notch by notch to adapt each local situation ” , he insisted.

Finally, he added that his "objective is that each family is informed before May 4 of what is going on for their child, whether in elementary school, college or high school, or by receiving a phone call of National Education, either by consulting the website of the academy to which we belong ” .