It's back to school for schoolchildren. After three weeks of closure to try to stem the third wave of the epidemic, kindergartens and primary schools reopen on Monday. Even if the health situation remains critical, the executive was keen on this return to class, as Emmanuel Macron once again affirmed in a tweet published Monday morning.
“School helps to fight against social inequalities and destiny. This is why our children must be able to continue to go there and to learn, with a strict protocol ”
, underlined the Head of State.
"Welcome back everyone ! And let's continue to apply the barrier gestures (let's remember the song) ”
, he also launched to the students, referring to the song of the YouTubers McFly & Carlito, following the challenge that the Élysée had launched to them last February. . To accompany this return to class, Emmanuel Macron will go this Monday to Paul Cézanne elementary school in Melun. It should reaffirm the massive deployment of self-tests for educational staff and priority vaccination for teachers over 55 years old. However, the president had promised at the end of March a possible vaccination for all teachers in mid-April.
As for middle and high school students, lessons will resume for the moment remotely. The first will be able to find their establishment
"the week of May 3",
but
"in half-gauge"
for the fourth and third students of the fifteen departments most affected by the epidemic. All high school students will also be able to find their way back to lessons the week of May 3, but also
“in half-gauge”
.