After All Saints, a return of classes under sign of COVID-19

Monday, due to the epidemic renewed, the schoolchildren of 39 departments will have to bring the mask again while they had been able to remove it in October. Sixty departments now apply Level 2 of a health protocol that consists of four.

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Twenty months of health crisis taught them to do nothing for “acquired”. After a return of September more “serene” that expected, the teachers of the first degree are well aware of orchestrate, from Monday, November 8, a return to class under the sign of a renewed epidemic. This is especially true in the thirty-nine departments where schoolchildren come back from the holidays of All Saints masked, after being able to enjoy a few weeks “without”: the government made known, Wednesday, November 3, the list of all territories which Because they have rocked in recent days above the symbolic incidence rate of 50 cases of COVID per 100,000 inhabitants, climb the echelons of a health protocol designed on four levels.

In total, now fifty-seven metropolitan departments and three ultramarine territories apply level 2 (with the mask worn indoors), and thirty-nine level 1 (without mask with elementary) when they were Seventy-eight in this case before the holidays of All Saints. Only one territory (La Mayenne) saw the constraints are lighter. Only one other, Guyana, Staying at Level 4, the highest. For the majority, the degree of vigilance is maintained or increased.

“No choice”

From one school to another, the same expressions come back in the testimonies of teachers: there are those who speak of “Yoyo effect”, others of “recocera” or “Stop and Go” “… with the feeling, however, to have” not the choice “, observed Laurent Tintet, school director in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques – one of the departments when the schoolchildren again have the mask after being exempted mid-October. “It’s not bad around us, it was already starting to Flamber before the holidays, explains this union at the SE-UNSA forced to close three classes since September. Today, we move from green to orange, of which act. But The goal is not to go to red. The school must also be used to this: to make pedagogy to remind children – and through them, to parents – that the epidemic is not behind us. ” / p>

Pragmatism also defend teacher unions. “What is played in schools is a sign that the crisis will last, underlines Guislaine David, SNUIPP-Fsu, the majority primaryly. We like it or not, Covid, we take it for a few years …” ” It has always been known that the epidemic had to be monitored as the milk on fire, looks, in the same vein, Catherine Nave-Bekhti of the Sgen-CFDT. Faced with flows and reflux, we have no choice but To adapt. “” When the government has announced us, at the end of September, the possibility of falling the mask, it lacked part of the speech, breath stéphane hook at SE-UNSA: this mask, do not store it too far! “

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