16,836 classes closed, 410,000 students infected over seven days… The figures are still impressive but
“there is a small downward trend”
in the Covid-19 epidemic at school, welcomed the Minister of National Education , Jean-Michel Blanquer, Friday on Sud Radio.
A slight regression but sufficient to reflect on a reduction in the protocol as soon as
“the start of the February holidays”
, as the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, had announced at the end of January.
In this sense, a meeting between the trade unions and the Ministries of Health and Education is being held this Tuesday, to study the various possible avenues.
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“We need to understand what the approach is in terms of public health and method”
, summarizes Stéphane Crochet, secretary general of SE-Unsa.
“The idea is to have elements of scientific understanding of the measurements, but also to have the assurance that the communication of this information will allow a serene work to be carried out”
, he adds.
Overall, caution is the key word.
“If we lighten the measures but, in 15 days, contamination increases, we will have lost everything”
, warns Guislaine David, spokesperson for SNUipp-FSU, who also insists on the need for
“scientific”
guarantees .
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On CNews on Sunday evening, Jean-Michel Blanquer wanted to be reassuring:
“It's too early to give definitive measures this evening, but it will be during the coming week.
“The Minister of National Education notably mentioned
“the hope of going to level 2 in primary education”
, which implies in particular
“the end of wearing a mask outside”.
"It could allow students to go gradually, it can be a first step,"
says Guislaine David.
“The alleviation of the constraints on the practice of sport”
was also mentioned by the minister.
Indoor sport, suspended since December 9, could thus make a comeback.
Just like the
“mixing of classes”
, also limited since that date.
Relaxing this measure would allow pupils to be reassigned to other classes in the event of a teacher's absence.
Reduce the number of self-tests
The screening policy, which is particularly restrictive, could also change in the coming days.
Currently, a contact case student must perform a self-test and present the negative result to return to class, before doing a new one on D + 2 and D + 4, while remaining in class.
The unions hope that one of them can jump.
“We have the impression that the test at D-0 detects cases, that that at D+4 discovers new ones, but that that at D+2 is useless”
, confides Stéphane Crochet.
We will insist during the meeting to return to saliva tests once a week
Guislaine David, SNUipp-FSU spokesperson
This track has in any case been cautiously confirmed by Jean-Michel Blanquer on CNews:
“We can imagine going from three to two.
This is one of the things that will be discussed (…) but for the moment, it is not a certainty.
For Guislaine David, on the other hand, it is necessary to completely change the current policy, which
"works very badly"
.
And the SNUipp-FSU spokeswoman goes further than her colleague:
“We will insist during the meeting to return to saliva tests once a week.”
