Correspondent in Rome
Funny atmosphere Wednesday morning viale Madama Laetizia, for the start of the school year at "Chato", the French high school Chateaubriand in Rome which welcomes some 1,500 pupils, two thirds of whom are Italians.
What's more, after six months of closure, since early March.
The parents are angry: they did not understand until August 25, by an email from the principal, Stéphane Devin, that their children would return to school with reduced hours.
In the morning for primary, in the afternoon for secondary.
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This back-to-school morning, they are looking for the principal at the "main door" of the school.
They only find the primary school director there, who refuses to answer their questions.
Stéphane Devin, he is elsewhere, at "the small door".
"But why is the principal hiding, why does he refuse to speak to us?"
, gets upset Illaria, mother of a primary school student.
At the end of June, the school informed them that the start of the school year will be either normally or in "Covid mode", if the epidemic resumes.
The rooms of the school cannot
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