Second school year under the Covid sign.
In a video posted on social networks this Thursday morning, while visiting a Marseille school for the start of the school year, Emmanuel Macron spoke to students, parents and teachers on this day back from school.
"We are doing our utmost to ensure that this return to school is as normal as possible", notably assured the President of the Republic, who once again put forward the will of the executive since the start of the Covid-19 crisis. 'have preserved the school.
Have a good start!
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- Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) September 2, 2021
"We will therefore do our utmost to be able to continue learning", he declared, before welcoming the "exceptional mobilization" of all the players in Education.
While via the Delta variant, the virus continues to circulate in the country, Emmanuel Macron also recalled the importance of barrier gestures.
And that's when he quoted the now famous Mcfly and Carlito song and also showed a portrait of the two Youtubers, thus honoring a bet made with them.
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Let the mistress take off her mask ”
A little lightness, while nearly 12.4 million students, with a mask on the nose from the first grade, and 866,500 teachers, find the school benches under the threat of the Delta variant.
"You must first have a feeling of serenity, the start of the school year is prepared, the students will be there, the teachers too, the (health) protocol is clear", the French Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel said on Wednesday. Blanquer, on France Inter radio.
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The threat of the Delta variant
The ministry retained the health protocol of “level 2” (out of 4) which authorizes all the pupils to be accommodated in face-to-face and requires them to wear a mask indoors, except in kindergarten.
A case of Covid-19 in an elementary classroom will result in a closure, as in June.
In the event of contamination at college or high school, only students with contact cases who are not vaccinated will have to isolate themselves for a week.
New for this new school year: middle and high schools will therefore contribute to the vaccination campaign, open only to those over 12 years old.
The government plans to send “mobile teams” to some schools and to send groups of volunteer students to vaccination centers.
About 60% of adolescents and 89% of teachers are vaccinated in France, according to Jean-Michel Blanquer.
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The minister, who wants to keep the establishments open as much as possible, was also booed during the presidential trip to a school in Marseille.
In 2020-2021, establishments were closed for three weeks in April, including two weeks of vacation.
"It is possible that there is an increase in contamination," warned Mr. Blanquer, which could lead to a hardening of the sanitary protocol in schools, with a stricter limitation of the mixing of pupils or the establishment of a gauge limiting the number of people present in class, on a local or national scale.
Already, in the West Indies and in the red zones of Guyana, the re-entry has been postponed from September 2 to 13 because of the "serious" health situation there.