Multiplication of cases of Covid-19, non-compliance with the health protocol, absence of screening tests and substitutes to assist the sick ... Almost everywhere, in Seine-Saint-Denis, alerts are piling up within the educational community .
With an incidence rate of over 700 infections per week per 100,000 inhabitants, the poorest department in mainland France is also the one where the virus circulates the most.
The proof at school: according to the last weekly report provided by the rectorate of the academy of Créteil, 139 classes were closed last week in Seine-Saint-Denis, much more than in Seine-et-Marne (57) and that in the Val-de-Marne (26).
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“What are we waiting for?
": In Seine-Saint-Denis, a very tense health situation
Across Ile-de-France, a strike call was launched by the Snuipp-FSU union for April 6.
"In a kindergarten in Saint-Denis, this morning, there were two substitutes and an educational advisor to welcome the students of five classes", gives as an example Marie-Hélène Plard, delegate for the 93. "Instead of closing this school , it is kept open on the front.
And we cannot guarantee to respect the sanitary protocol.
So the schools remain open, but at what cost?
We are on aberrations in terms of learning, ”she is indignant.
Serial strikes and withdrawal rights
Since the start of the week, there have been more and more secondary schools where teachers are asserting their right of withdrawal: the Lycée Eugène-Delacroix, in Drancy, and the Collège Claude-Debussy, in Aulnay-sous- Wood, from Tuesday, the lycée Henri-Wallon, in Aubervilliers, and the college Politzer, in La Courneuve this Thursday.
The reason is always the same: the number of contaminations "flames" and the health protocol (physical distancing, half-gauge) is not respected.
At the Lycée Delacroix, the thirty teachers mobilized sent an open letter this Thursday to Emmanuel Macron and the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, in which they describe an "alarming health situation".
The figures put forward in this letter, although "certainly underestimated", are "indicative of a serious and imminent danger".
The school would thus have "54 positive students and new proven cases every day", "about twenty positive cases proven among the teachers" and "five classes closed, including three since the beginning of the week".
According to the authors of the letter, the incidence rate among professors is 7,500 in 100,000.
At the Debussy college, in Aulnay, in the REP + zone, around fifteen teachers have also been exercising their right of withdrawal since Tuesday… which the rectorate of the Créteil academy has refused them there too.
"It's scandalous," said a teacher.
All because the ministry does not want to lose face and recognize that its health protocol is ineffective.
Today the college is a cluster.
We are endangered, and our students too. ”
Parents and teachers plead to close establishments
In Aulnay-sous-Bois, the “dramatic” situation within the college Debussy - 20% positivity rate among teachers, all supervisors on strike or evicted - led parents of students to launch a petition demanding its “Temporary closure” and “massive screening before reopening”.
"We are abandoned, deplores the mother of a college student, representative of a list of parents of students.
It is not a pleasure to ask for the closure of the college and to keep our children at home.
But here, it is health that is at stake. "
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Same observation at the Lycée Delacroix in Drancy.
"It is criminal to leave this establishment open, loose Aline Cottereau, professor of letters.
Despite the 50% level of students received, the health protocol is unmanageable.
We stay 30 per class, the students often wear the mask badly.
There is only one solution: that we close the school for a fortnight by switching to distance learning. ”
Saliva tests are missing
Less than ten cities out of 40 in Seine-Saint-Denis have benefited from a campaign of saliva tests at school.
In Bondy, they led to the closure of six classes last week.
In Dugny, failing to be one of the targeted cities, the municipality paid 2,000 euros to carry out its own screening on Wednesday.
About a hundred children from recreation centers were tested, which led to the closure of a class and the eviction of half-boarding children in elementary school on Thursday.
“We weren't going to wait a month or two.
The situation is really worrying, we must test massively, isolate more quickly, ”argues the mayor (DVD), Quentin Gesell.
In Bagnolet, we close the leisure centers on Wednesdays
Faced with the progression of the epidemic in schools, some municipalities are taking measures.
This is the case of Bagnolet, which has just decided to close its leisure centers from Wednesday until April 14.
"This closure will allow complete disinfection of the premises in order to consider reopening for the next Easter school holidays, from April 17, under optimal security conditions", announces the town hall.
In Bagnolet, “a large number” of regional nursery school staff (Atsem) and teachers are affected by the virus, which complicates the functioning of schools.
For the past week, two kindergartens have been forced to close the canteen and after-school reception is very disrupted.
