This time, the holidays will not come in time enough to curb the Covid epidemic in schools.
While in Yvelines, as everywhere in Ile-de-France, contaminations are on the rise again, the Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, announced this Friday the closure of classes from the first case of contamination from of the next week.
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An insufficient measure according to the FSU 78 union, which requests that this instruction be retroactive.
"While the minister had first declared that the measure would relate to positive cases since this weekend, finally it would only be cases from next week", we regret on the side of the union .
FSU 78, which denounces "a gulf between the epidemic situation and the health protocol in schools", calls for a strike from Monday.
A mobilization "necessary" because for months, the staff do not feel heard by their minister.
A number of Covid screenings deemed insufficient
For example, teachers are still calling for real testing campaigns in schools.
“In the Versailles academy, 30,000 tests are available each week, ie 7,500 for the entire Yvelines department, it is very insufficient.
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The union recalls that the tests are carried out only when cases are proven when they should be generalized.
For example, in Rambouillet, several children from La Ruche nursery school were diagnosed positive for Covid.
“We know that the brothers and sisters of these children are educated at the Catherine-De-Vivonne college, and yet there was no screening campaign in the establishment.
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Another demand: that nursery and primary school teachers be automatically considered as contact cases if one of their pupil is positive.
All the more so, insist the trade unionists, that in kindergarten, children do not wear masks.
According to the rectorate of the Academy of Versailles, 28 classes and a college have been closed in recent days in the department, after the discovery of positive cases.
Information that does not correspond to the feedback from teachers: “We were told that the Debussy colleges in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Jacques-Cartier in Issou were closed.
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Contacted, the rectorate specifies that the closure of the college of Issou had not been counted due to an "error of feedback in the software" and that a massive screening operation will be organized there.
In the town (, four schools will be closed from this Monday until April 5.
"The teachers should have been vaccinated first"
Still on colleges, FSU 78 would like courses to be systematically organized in half-groups.
“Today, it is done on a case-by-case basis, we want the procedures to be homogenized in all establishments.
Once again, the union demands more transparency from the National Education side.
“We want to be informed of the number of positive cases in each school, today it is on a case-by-case basis, it depends on the goodwill of the management of each establishment.
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An observation shared by Eddie Aït.
The mayor (various environmentalists) of Carrières-sous-Poissy considers the measures announced by the minister to be “late”: “It shows how the situation in schools has not been taken seriously.
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In the city, which has thirteen primary schools, none has so far been closed, only five classes had to be.
Between January and March, his town was “relatively spared” since only nineteen children tested positive.
But since last week, the elected official has seen an acceleration in the circulation of the virus because three positive cases have been detected in different establishments.
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“From the moment the government made the non-closure of schools a political totem pole, teachers and educational staff should have been vaccinated first.
Because for the elected official, the regional nursery school agents (Atsem), supervisors or even accompanying persons with disabilities (AESH) are part, just like the teachers, of the people on the front line.
On the issue of the reinforced sanitary protocol in the canteens, he absolutely insists on keeping them open.
The municipality has thus recruited seventeen additional facilitators to ensure compliance with the new measures.
Three new vaccination centers open on Monday
On the vaccination front in the department, the number of centers continues to grow with three new openings scheduled for Monday, bringing the total to sixteen.
In Chatou, the center announced since the start of the vaccination campaign will be accessible on the Ile des Impressionnistes.
In Conflans, the injections will take place in the village hall, place Auguste-Romagné.
Finally in Vélizy-Villacoublay, the Maurice-Ravel center will serve as a vaccination site.
The Saint-Germain center, located in the Pierre-Delanoë space in Fourqueux, could also quickly find itself cramped given the ramping up of the vaccine system. A move to a space with a wider reception and support capacity is under consideration. It could intervene "after the Easter weekend", according to the mayor (DVD), Arnaud Péricard.