COVID-19: In schools, week of all tensions

Since the entry into force of the new health protocol, in the autumn, and in the face of the thrust of contaminations under the effect of the Omicron Variant, teachers and parents have the impression of navigating. Almost all the unions calls for a strike Thursday, January 13th.

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“Course or no course?” “Open class or closed class?” Parents of students, who have sailed throughout this first week of the year, now have at least a certainty regarding the days Coming: Thursday, January 13, some may have to do without school. For this day, almost all teacher unions called on Friday 7 January to strike.

The SNUIPP-FSU, the majority in the first degree, and the SNUDI-FO intend to mobilize in the primary, while the SE-UNSA, the SNES-FSU, the CGT-Education and South Education, just like the SNALC, also call colleges and high schools to disengage. Their numbers overlap: more security and more stability in the face of Cvid-19 wave that sweeps on the school. With, in subsections, the claim of a return to the protocol “one case, a closure”.

For the return, Monday, January 3, classes do not close, nor in the first case or even after three positive cases, as was the case since the beginning of December, when the Omicron variant of SARS-COV-2 started talking about him. Instead, children must be tested three times in one week as soon as they are in contact with a contaminated comrade. It is, in any case, the theory: in fact, the national education reported, Thursday, January 6, more than 9,000 closed classes, three times more than before Christmas leave. And the imposed screening course has mounted, for many parents, in the obstacle, during a week tense.

“It becomes delusional”

Julie (the people quoted only by their first name do not wish to give their surnames) knows something. Near Lille, this 41-year-old family lived at the rhythm of the tests at J 0, J + 2 and J + 4, as the protocol wants. For his 5-year-old daughter, who very badly supports the tests in the nose, she preferred to look for a laboratory offering salivary tests. With the deadlines to get an appointment and then receive the result, the little Ninon, declared contact case from the start of the school year, could only return to the class only Thursday afternoon.

In front of pharmacies and laboratories, many parents, like her, no longer hide their anger. “Two hours of waiting in the winter, it’s a shame to impose that with children,” Caroline Storm, whose eldest of the two boys, 6, has been identified case contact on Wednesday. After being “angry-collected” where she hoped for a salivary test, she turned to the “Coin Pharmacy”. It took “his ticket”. Ended up at “queuing on a car park”, with in front of her “children who screamed”, behind her of the “Antivax who boast of their alleged freedom” … “They started there to blister my Son and put a swab in the nose. “This mother, who, however, defended the principle of screening at school, doubts to bend again to the exercise.

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