This Thursday afternoon, the director of Jean-Michel Blanquer's cabinet met with the unions to detail the health protocol that will apply to the start of the school year.
For two hours, Thierry Ledroit responded to questions from representatives of teaching and management staff following the speech by the Minister of National Education on Tuesday.
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At the microphone of France Inter, the latter had confirmed the maintenance of the return to January 3. No way for him to postpone the date. Jean-Michel Blanquer had, however, considered a possible evolution of the protocol: if a child is declared positive for Covid-19, his classmates will now have to present “
two or three tests
” negative PCR or antigen several days apart, against a currently, before returning to school. A device whose unions and parents had denounced the vagueness. However, on Thursday, the ministry did not provide any details on the subject, explaining that it would depend on the High Council for Public Health, whose opinion will be issued this Friday.
But, in the meantime, the Rue de Grenelle has decided to speed up the procedure for installing CO2 sensors in classrooms.
Until now, it was up to local communities to submit a request for these devices controlling air quality.
The task will now fall to the prefects, which should streamline the process, hope the unions.
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Mask issue
Jean-Michel Blanquer's cabinet also acceded to the request of the trade unions who wanted school leaders to have more time to manage the crisis.
Thus, as of January, their training and “animation” sessions will be postponed.
Most seminars dedicated to secularism, digital technology, etc., will be postponed.
Others will be switched to distancing.
The rectorates of each academy will have to decide on the number of hours to be abolished.
"The important
thing
for the educational team is to ensure the quality of the lessons"
, declares Sophie Vénétitay, general secretary of Snes-FSU, the main union of secondary teachers.
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An insufficient concession for the unions, who draw attention to the problem of masks. If fabric protections are indeed provided to them, they demand surgical masks, see FFP2. The ministry did not give them satisfaction on this point, despite their insistence, they say.
"Fabric masks are not suitable for everyone's face, do not offer a bar to hang them on the nose and get wet quickly,"
laments Sophie Vénétitay. And Guislaine David, spokesperson for SNUipp-FSU, the first union among primary school teachers, adds:
"This exposes teachers to risks that we could limit."
Thursday, at the end of the afternoon, the Snes-FSU, SUD education and the CGT Éduc'action maintained a strike notice starting Monday, the day of the start of the school year.
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