It is undoubtedly the week of all dangers for parents, teachers and students in Ile-de-France.
All the indicators suggest that the surge of the epidemic that has hit the territory for a few weeks will continue.
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Unsurprisingly, this trend is reflected in the numbers.
In the academy of Créteil (Val-de-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis, Seine-et-Marne), we are preparing for a complicated week in schools.
We are starting to get used to it in this sector particularly affected by the pandemic and the shortage of replacement teachers.
Last Friday, according to figures provided by the Créteil academy on the occasion of its weekly report, 163 classes were closed in Val-de-Marne, against 26 a week earlier, 272 in Seine-Saint-Denis (against 139 ), 16 schools and 101 classes in Seine-et-Marne (compared to 7 schools and 57 classes).
In the Academy of Versailles (Hauts-de-Seine, Val-d'Oise, Yvelines and Essonne), 306 classes were closed.
In Paris currently, 170 classes are closed because of the coronavirus.
"And as we must now close the class as soon as a student is sick, we expect 200 additional closures this week, out of a total of 56,000 classes," said Patrick Bloche, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of education.
New call for the vaccination of teachers
In Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), the next few days will be scrutinized with attention.
"In the past week, out of 450 classes, there were 45 teachers absent due to Covid," indicates the mayor's office, very concerned about the health situation and its repercussions on education.
If we really want to keep schools open, we have to give ourselves the means.
That is to say, vaccinate the staff as a whole and mobilize for replacements.
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“We are on the bridge, ensures the direction of the departmental services of the National Education of Val-de-Marne.
Many parents have their children tested on Saturdays and get the lab results on Monday or Tuesday.
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In the Val-d'Oise, the most affected of the Academy of Versailles, in the 1st degree, at least 188 classes would be closed.
Six schools have also completely lowered the curtain.
This Friday evening, an emergency meeting was held at the prefecture with parents of distressed students.
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"For a week, we have had so many comebacks that we have requested an emergency meeting," explains Philippe Renou, vice-president of the FCPE Val-d'Oise.
To prepare it, the union had launched a survey of its members, "in a day and a half we received 250 responses", is still surprised Philippe Renou.
“It just shows how edgy people are.
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Not convinced by Jean-Michel Blanquer's announcements
The announcements this Friday by Jean-Michel Blanquer, Minister of Education, hardly calmed the discontent.
"The closure of classes from the first Covid case will not help the situation," says the FCPE.
The number of closed classes will explode and it will again fall on families who will have logistical problems of childcare.
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Teachers are hardly more convinced by this “half-measure”, as Mathieu Moreau describes it.
"Going to half-gauge from the 1st degree and in college, that would be a real announcement that would limit the mixing", estimates the representative CGT Educ'Action.
“It is no longer time to procrastinate.
The situation is serious and requires that a truly binding health protocol be applied ”, demanded this Sunday the Snes-FSU Paris-Créteil-Versailles in a press release.
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Leaving schools open, Philippe Laurent, mayor (UDI) of Sceaux (Hauts-de-Seine) and secretary general of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF), has never been hostile to it.
“We said at the end of February that we agreed to keep the schools open,” he rewinds.
But that was on condition that the emphasis be placed on vaccination and that all staff, not just teachers, be vaccinated.
"An effort that was not made according to the elected official, who regrets" the lack of coherence "of the government.
“We had to go to the end of the logic, he breathes.
Now what will happen is the schools will close on their own.
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"A succession of often contradictory measures"
More critical than his counterpart in Sceaux, Philippe Juvin, mayor (LR) of La Garenne-Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine) and head of emergencies at the Pompidou hospital (AP-HP) in Paris, believes that he does not there has "never been a management of the pandemic in schools".
"For a year, we have had a succession of often contradictory measures", tackle the elected representative who pleads for "a real hunt for the virus in wastewater".
In parallel, the elected representative proposes to distribute, as in England, self-tests, two per week, to all schoolchildren.
"Those who are negative come to school and those who are positive stay at home. It's as simple as that," slips Philippe Juvin.
This is a strategy.
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The mayor of La Garenne-Colombes is annoyed with the way the ministry manages the screening of schoolchildren.
“There is nothing massive, he regrets.
Blanquer talks about 300,000 tests per week.
With 12 million students, that's one test per student per year.
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