The Minister of National Education has a musical ear.
He retweeted this Sunday evening a parody of the famous song by the group Pink Floyd,
Another Brick In The Wall,
entitled
Another Window
on Zoom.
It is sung by American parents who seem exhausted and by schoolchildren condemned to stay at home.
"
We hate homeschooling / We really feel like we have lost control ... [...] Staying at home for so long is so unfair and so cruel ...
" sing the first in English.
“You can't stay online all day.
We want to see our friends in class
”, continue the younger ones.
This is an original way, for Jean-Michel Blanquer, to respond to his detractors, unhappy that the closure of schools is not on the program of the latest measures taken to slow the progression of the coronavirus.
It would only be considered as a last resort, we plead with the government.
The Minister of National Education, who assured Friday that
"young people need education, the school system
", had to face in particular criticism of teachers and epidemiologists in recent days.
“The role of schools in the spread of the virus is important.
You just have to look at the French data to realize this.
[...] Children contaminate each other and then contaminate their families ”
, explained to Figaro Antoine Flahault, professor of public health at the University of Geneva.
In the most affected departments, schools will now be closed from the first case of Covid-19, according to the new protocol unveiled on Friday.
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In the United States, where the parody video was filmed, the non-reopening of schools is controversial in a number of states where they are still closed.