Students in the West Indies, especially in Guadeloupe, returned to school on Monday, September 13, ten days after the official return to school in France, due to the outbreak of Covid-19, before switching back largely to the distance.
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“It feels very, very weird. I'm in the big leagues now, but we'll only have video and we'll hardly ever come to college, ”
worries 11-year-old Kimi. After this first contact with his comrades, masked, a gap table between each student, Kimi will now have to follow the lessons at a distance, only to return occasionally to his college in Guénette, in Le Moule (commune of Grande Terre) . This sixth-grade student is one of nearly 90,000 Guadeloupe students to have returned to school on Monday.
Guadeloupe being still confined, this re-entry has been adapted, with a strict health protocol.
And, after the start of the school year, most of the lessons will be distance learning.
The pupils thus have
"no school meals"
, no afternoon lessons and will be present "one to two half-days per week in small groups", without sports lessons, according to the health protocol of the rectorate.
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For kindergarten and primary students, face-to-face lessons will resume gradually,
"in groups of 5 maximum"
, indicates the rectorate. The date of September 24 is mentioned for a resumption of face-to-face classes in secondary education, depending on the indicators of the epidemic. The government announced at the end of August to postpone the start of the school year in the West Indies and in the “red” zone of Guyana to September 13.