“Our goal is to leave the schools open to the maximum, because we all know that it is the interest of the children,” the Prime Minister recalled.
Le Monde with AFP
A speech to answer the protest that rises among some teachers and parents of students. Monday, January 10, Prime Minister Jean Castex, announced on the Plateau de France 2 three schemes for simplifying the health protocol in schools.
In the first place, if a child is declared positive in a class, “we will not immediately ask parents to come and seek theirs on the grounds that there is contact case. We will wait for the end of the day or school output. “
When a child will be declared positive, his classmates, now contacts, will be able to perform three autototes, against an antigenic test or PCR, then two autototes in the current protocol. These tests will be issued free of charge in pharmacy to the parents of the contacts, recalled the Prime Minister.
Finally, a single certificate indicating that the self test is negative will be requested, “once and for all”, against one at each test currently.
“Our goal is to give maximum schools, because we all know that it is the interest of children,” the Prime Minister recalled.
Call to the Strike
A call for the national strike for Thursday was launched at the end of last week by the SNUIPP-Fsu, the first Primary Teachers’ Union, and the SE-UNSA facing “the indescribable mess” of the new health protocol. They were quickly joined by other teacher unions, the SNES-FSU, the National Syndicate of High Schools and Colleges (SNALC), the CGT Education, South Education, FO and the CFDT. This call was supported by CIPF, the main federation of parents of students.
Since the beginning of the school year of January 3, students had to be tested three times in four days if a positive case is detected in their class. Faced with the difficulties experienced by parents to test their child in pharmacies, assault for a week, the protocol has been adapted. Students no longer have to complete a new course if a new positive case appears in their class within a period of less than seven days. In addition, children who have already been sick of COVID-19 less than two months ago are not obliged to submit to this test course if they do not have any symptoms.