The numbers are climbing.
According to the last count communicated on Wednesday by the Minister of Education, 81 schools and 2,100 classes are currently closed in France, due to cases of Covid - against 524 classes a week earlier.
"Good news
", according to Jean-Michel Blanquer who, on LCI, insisted on the low rate of classes concerned (0.3%).
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But this is another matter on the ground, where the management of the health crisis is beginning to overwhelm school directors, doctors, regional health agencies (ARS) and, by extension, parents.
“
In the south of the Oise, we have the impression of reliving the month of March.
In the town of Lamorlaye - one of the first clusters - 10 of the 18 classes of the northern school group have just closed.
Everyone is on the alert
”, reports Hubert Salaün, president of Peep, the 2nd federation of parents of pupils.
Since the start of the school year, school directors, an essential link in moving up the chain of contamination, have been tracking down "
suggestive symptoms
”Of the Covid - which can recall a simple rhinitis -, and receive cascading calls from families whose children present these symptoms or have been“ contact cases ”.
One has the impression of an adaptation from day to day.
It's not reassuring
Hubert Salaün, president of the Peep, 2nd federation of parents of pupils
Some schools have not hesitated to ask for a Covid test or a medical certificate for the return to class.
“
Illegal
” retorted the Order of Physicians, which noted an influx among general practitioners.
Forced to clarify the situation, the National Education imagined Tuesday "
the certificate on honor
".
Parents will have to "
certify in writing that they have consulted a doctor and that a test has not been prescribed
".
“
We have the impression of an adaptation from day to day.
It's not reassuring,
”says Hubert Salaün.
Educational continuity plan
“It appears the ministry doesn't have real-time numbers. Our feedback from the field indicates that the number of schools closed is higher
, says Guislaine David, at Snuipp, the first primary school union.
The minister may minimize the situation, the fact remains that many students follow a dotted education
, she adds.
We close a class for a week and a few days later, it's the one next door.
It is endless
”.
Why not activate the educational continuity plan, drafted at the end of August by the National Education, which provides, in the event of "active" circulation of the virus, to reduce the number of students at school and to set up "mixed" education? (which alternates face-to-face and remote)?
More than forty departments are now classified in the red zone and these plans have not been activated.
"
Lack of human and logistical resources,
" said the FCPE, the first parents' federation.
But above all, a part of distance education would suppose that parents spend part of their time at home.
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The device, announced for them on September 9 by the government, provides for a continuation of teleworking activity - with children, therefore - for parents who can.
The others will be placed in partial activity.
And paid at 84% of their salary.
"We contribute to taxes for a quality public service and some parents should lose 16% of their salary to look after their children?
», Asks Rodrigo Arenas, the president of the FCPE.
There are certainly "
holes in the racket
", to use an expression dear to Jean-Michel Blanquer.
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