An urgent referral to the administrative court asking for remote exams, a petition that collected 8,400 signatures, threats of blockade of examination rooms, leaflets, questions, an anxiety-provoking climate, a meeting this Tuesday, January 11 that promises to be stormy ...
While it is open the session of the back-to-school exams, in Paris, the concern and the scolding of the students, particularly in Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, professors, organizations, unions are rising.
A letter to the minister remained unanswered
"It is not for lack of having warned the university presidencies and Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, annoys Anne Roger, teacher-researcher at Lyon 1 and spokesperson for Snesup-FSU, union of superior. Everyone knew that there would be a problem at the start of the school year, a cluster risk. We wrote to the minister on December 1. Our letter went unanswered! ".
On Christmas Eve, the UNEF of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, took over, calling on the presidency of the university on this “health disaster that could happen”.
Students confessed to wanting to sit for exams, in lecture halls, even when they were sick.
For the Panthéon Sorbonne alone, some 800 students declared themselves infected.
For many, the remedial session in June would be detrimental or downright too late in their course.
On December 29, under pressure, the minister reacted and the universities announced remedial sessions "completed before the winter holidays", promises the presidency at the Panthéon Sorbonne.
Students more or less serious with the Covid
This Tuesday, in the small Cassin amphitheater, at the Gobelins (13th century), Cécile *, a law student at the Panthéon Sorbonne, recounted her three-hour partial: “We were one in two.
This is good.
We all had masks.
On the other hand, in the line to return, we waited as tight as sardines.
There was no frost.
A TD teacher had his mask under his nose.
And I discovered a student who told us that she had the Covid but that she didn't care ”.
“We are going straight into the wall, regrets Mélanie Luce, president of UNEF, because the government did not anticipate and we are improvising.
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For their part, the teachers regret "too tight a timing to organize the substitution session, an overload of work for the teachers and a lot of pressure".
“How do we do it?” Asks Anne Roger.
Are we remaking subjects?
Should we postpone the courses for the second semester?
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There is also the question of proof of absenteeism.
For students infected with Covid, it will require "a positive test certificate, letter or message from Health Insurance, medical certificate", warns Panthéon Sorbonne.
For contact cases, a declaration on honor.
"And in this chaos, for those who will have gastro, a professor slips maliciously, or who will not have revised enough, a certificate of honor?
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