“If we resume under the same conditions as before the holidays, we are going straight to the break-pipe.
“School teachers are worried in the Yvelines.
Monday April 26, they will resume face-to-face work in nurseries, kindergartens and primary schools.
But a few days before the resumption, it is once again total vagueness.
Because for over a year, nothing has changed in terms of communication.
“While the information should reach us well in advance to allow us to organize ourselves, it is the stress of knowing what sauce we are going to be eaten”, regrets Evelyne Diana-Bras, departmental co-secretary of the Unitary Union Federation ( FSU78).
The right of withdrawal "more complicated to apply"
Doubting an organization that is more secure and better established than before the school holidays, the FSU78 has just submitted a strike notice from Monday 26 to Friday 30 April.
Less to call a strike than "so that colleagues who feel in danger can protect themselves, the right of withdrawal is more complicated to apply", explains Simon Gautier, departmental co-secretary of the union.
Especially since the FSU78 estimates that "the closure of schools has indeed lowered the contamination figures for 0-9 year olds", based on data from the CovidTracker site: in Yvelines, the incidence rate has dropped from 279 cases per 100,000 (week of March 28 to April 3) to 120 per 100,000 (April 11 to 17).
Proof if necessary that rigorous sanitary measures are necessary in schools.
"My son found himself in contact in high school"
And if the government announcements this Thursday do not bring anything new on the sanitary rules imposed, the subjects of concern remain numerous. The mixing of the students first, which is complicated to master especially in the playground, as well as the lack of quality masks for the supervising teams. "Many colleagues buy FFP2 because we are only given two masks for the general public per day, which are quickly wet and are not suitable", continues Evelyne Diana-Bras, herself a teacher in the Mantois.
Regarding the closing of classes according to contact cases, the rule does not change: when a case is found among the students, the whole class must close, but the teacher is not considered as a contact case.
Likewise, when the teacher has doubts about his health, precaution is not always in order.
“My son found himself in high school,” says the union representative.
I immediately informed my employer but he still asked me to come to work.
I refused and struggled to stay home in child care.
I took the test and the result was positive… ”
Teachers call for stricter protocols
In general, elementary and secondary school teachers are calling for stricter protocols with the notion of obligation so that they are not subject to interpretation in the various establishments.
This is not the case today, except for the cleaning of the premises, which is not always assured according to several corroborating accounts in all of Yvelines.
“Me, I arrive earlier every morning with my wipes because I can see that it is not done, blows a teacher.
We said it in the board of directors but there is no reaction.
Windows should also be opened regularly to ventilate the classrooms.
"But in old establishments you cannot open the windows in all the rooms", adds a teacher.
7,500 saliva tests for… 250,000 students
For many, this interpretation of the texts according to the possibilities and the wishes of each one is psychologically exhausting.
They create a gap between school and life in society.
"Distances are compulsory everywhere and at school is it possible?"
»Asks this same teacher.
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In nursery schools, where wearing a mask is not compulsory, reinforcing the protocols would even be “mistreatment” for Bertrand Mesure.
The secretary of the Versailles academic CHSCT, himself a specialist teacher in a nursery school in Trappes, suggests instead the vaccination of all school staff.
“It would be the right solution, and to give them quality masks.
We also need to be in a logic of testing and isolating but we need resources for that, not cosmetic figures.
Before the holidays, we received 7,500 saliva tests for 250,000 students in Yvelines… ”
A half-gauge in half-tone in the colleges
The Minister of National Education announced this Thursday, the 3rd and 4th classes in the departments most affected by the epidemic, in particular the Yvelines, will reopen on May 3 in half-gauge.
A partial decision that does not meet the expectations of teachers.
“I do not understand why there is not a generalized half-gauge system, takes offense a professor in a college in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
With an entire class in front of you, it is impossible to enforce the distances.
It's surreal when you see that by going to get your bread, you stay one meter from the customer in front of you.
We have the impression that when it comes to students, the government does not care.
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His counterpart, from an establishment in the Rambouillet region with around 800 students, agrees. “If we had 400 students instead of 800 we could better separate them by class, take breaks by level and have more space in the canteen. When I see a swarm of schoolchildren in the courtyard who are told to put the mask back on, I tell myself that it is totally out of step with the ban on meeting with more than six people or even illegal restaurants! "
