This time the connection worked as it should.
So this Tuesday afternoon, Emmanuel Macron joined, from his office at the Elysée, the history-geography course for 3rd year students at Itard college in Oraison (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence).
The professor recounts the emergence of the forces of the Free France of De Gaulle, when the Head of State virtually knocks on the door, via the platform "My class at home", set up by the National Center of distance education (CNED).
The same one who was "the target of a computer attack apparently coming from abroad", according to the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer.
On this first day of remote school, parents, students and teachers encountered bugs.
"This morning, there were some difficulties, there were apparently incidents, perhaps malicious acts", recognizes the Head of State.
As an aside, he confided to the Parisian: “I hope that these anomalies will be totally resolved this evening.
And that we can very quickly see what it is.
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Rose, she is still struggling to join (virtually) her seventeen comrades.
The hiccups and the arduousness of distance schooling are quick to invite themselves into the discussion.
“It's complicated,” breathes a student.
Fuse immediately this question: "Is it planned that there will be another confinement before the end of the year?"
"Response from the president, come" to thank them for (s) adapting to the current situation ":" I think that, until the end of the school year, there should not be a new confinement.
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The schedule maintained
But is it certain that classes will resume as planned?
We ask this question at the end of the course.
"It is essential that we resume classes in presence for nursery and primary on April 26, and for colleges and high schools the following week.
I did not condition the reopening of kindergartens and schools, then middle and high schools, to health indicators.
Why ?
Because these three weeks of physical absence from classes are already a significant effort ", replies the Head of State to Parisien, defending his line in these terms:" School is a place where the virus circulates, but not is not a place where the virus circulates more.
On the other hand, it is a place where the future of our country is played out.
I don't think we have the right to sacrifice the future of our country for the present situation.
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And he insists: “Health is the primary objective, I have also made education a priority.
»That the pupils take note of it, during their exchange, he certifies them besides that the patent will not be canceled.
What, by then, about the vaccination of teachers?
The line remains the same, without for the moment more precise calendar: they will be part of the priority audiences as soon as vaccination is open to those under 50 years old.
Those of them and accompanying staff who are in contact with disabled people, a particularly vulnerable public, will, on the other hand, be so from this month of April.
The mask "until this summer"
Do the measures announced at the end of March not come too late?
Part of the medical profession sounded the alarm with force, its opponents castigated its "lost bet".
The finished class, we submit to the president the comparison with our European neighbors, in whom the epidemic seems to ebb.
He "assumes" once again.
"The question is, at what price do you have this?
Germany has had to close its schools and non-food businesses since mid-December.
That it decreases and that there are beginnings of reopening, yes.
But in proportion we should have done three months of strict confinement?
I want to think backwards: I prefer to tell myself that we have preserved the life of our country thanks to proportionate measures, ”he explains.
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Lorenzo wants to project himself.
"How long will we have to wear the mask?"
He asks.
"Until this summer, it will be necessary to wear it to the maximum", agrees Emmanuel Macron, while endeavoring to give prospects to a particularly tested youth: "I hope that you will have conditions a little lightened with the next re-entry.
(Editor's note: September)
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"We will reopen less quickly than on May 11"
Giovianni seems to have his head on vacation.
"What flexibilities for this summer"?
At this moment, it begins to snow briefly on the gardens of the Elysée.
The end of the crisis appears even more distant.
These weeks that the executive had announced "difficult" are definitely.
"Yes, there will be relaxations for this summer and yes, the businesses will reopen there, from mid-May," said the president.
Nina wonders.
Shouldn't the turn of the screw be maintained, even if “the peak goes down”?
Once again, the president evokes the sustainability of the measures - "doing it for two months is twice as hard" ... But, he said as a token of caution given to Nina, "we will reopen less quickly than on May 11th ”.
Still, isn't the mid-May horizon too ambitious?
Too risky ?
" No, I do not think so.
Our objective is proactive for schools and reasonable for the rest, ”he tells us.
Shortly before, in front of the students, however, he had to admit once again: "the master of time is the virus".
