"The situation is explosive": in Drancy, 22 classes closed at the Lycée Delacroix

The Covid epidemic is still gaining ground at the Eugène-Delacroix high school in Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis).

This Sunday, the rector of the academy of Créteil, Daniel Auverlot announced the closure of 22 classes in the establishment, out of 80. 500 students, out of the 2,400 in the high school, are therefore sent home.

The rector applies the directive set out by Jean-Michel Blanquer, namely that a case of Covid in a class would result in its closure.

But for Fabrice Morel, professor of economics in the establishment and SNES-FSU union delegate, the account is not there.

“The situation is explosive,” he comments.

In an open letter sent last week to the President of the Republic and the Minister of National Education, the teachers demanded "an urgent and temporary closure with a switch to distance education to ensure pedagogical continuity" considering that it is " irresponsible to put the lives of our students and their families in danger ”.

Twenty families bereaved by the virus

Since this week the school has been able to take the measure of the progression of the virus and contaminations.

The figures were given by the management of the establishment.

They had been claimed by teachers who had observed a right of withdrawal.

Result: there are officially 54 positive students: "The figures are four times higher than in the first wave", point out the teachers.

Among the teachers, it is also the hecatomb: 20 were made wear pale.

According to them, the incidence rate in high school rose to 2,500 this week, double the previous week.

This explodes all the balance sheets of Seine-Saint-Denis where the general incidence rate, already record, flirts with 790 cases per 100,000 inhabitants this Sunday.

Parents of students have also paid a heavy price for the virus, around twenty families have been bereaved.

However alarming they may be, Fabrice Morel believes that these data are still underestimated: "Not all cases are declared and parents are not necessarily aware of the procedures to be observed".

“The situation has become very anxiety-provoking.

We felt psychological difficulties in dealing with the situation.

We are no longer very serene to teach, ”breathes the teacher.