A teacher from Oise, suspended by the rectorate for refusing to wear the mask in class on behalf of educational reasons, told AFP on Tuesday (November 16) that she wanted to persist in her position, despite a dialogue with her hierarchy.
Anne-Claire Rossignol, French teacher in a college in Gouvieux, near Creil (Oise), had expressed on social networks her refusal to wear the mask in class, mandatory for teachers in addition to respecting barrier gestures.
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The teacher was suspended on a conservatory basis on November 9 by the rectorate of the Academy of Amiens, after having warned her hierarchy and then voluntarily removed her mask the day before in front of her students.
"
Seeing masked adults all day is incompatible with learning,
" she explained in a video addressed to her students, saying that "
it is in the duration that it is catastrophic.
""
We are more than two years away: it will last, and at some point, we have to find an arrangement to teach without a mask,
"she told AFP, stressing that we can"
go unmasked in a football stadium of 40,000 people
”.
"My face is my working tool"
“
What I want people to recognize is that the teaching profession is a communication profession. My face is my working tool
", explains Anne-Claire Rossignol who says she receives the support of teachers and parents of students and emphasizes that she is not"
at all anti-mask, and especially not anti-vaccine
" . “
I put on my mask in the hallways, between the rows of tables in the room. I only remove my mask away from the students, in a ventilated room, doors and windows open,
”she explains.
Received by the rectorate Monday for a "
cordial
"
dialogue
but which "
did not provide a solution
" according to her, Anne-Claire Rossignol has decided to maintain her demands and remains suspended.
"
This is not a disciplinary sanction
," said the rectorate, specifying that she nevertheless exposes herself to it for non-compliance with her professional obligations.
This situation "
occurs at a time when the circulation of the virus is tending to increase in density and where, as a result, the National Education has strengthened protective measures
", added the rectorate.
