Screening at school: Jean Castex announces “simplifications” for parents, without convincing teachers

Three evolutions in the test procedure have been unveiled Monday night. What to calm the families but obviously not the teaching world, three days of a call to strike very relayed in schools, colleges and high schools.

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Operation demining on the front of the school. Three days of a call for the strike that resonates in all school circles, teachers to nurses, heads of establishment to inspectors, in the public and the private, the first as the second degree, the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, came to the plateau of the “20 hours” of France 2, Monday, January 10, announce a “simplification” – on three points – of the health screening protocol. The same protocol that concentrates, since the return of the Christmas holidays, the criticisms of the educational community and the parents exceeded.

First point, now, if a child is declared positive at COVID in a class, “we will not immediately ask parents to come and seek theirs on the grounds that it is a contact case,” said Mr. Castex . We will wait for the end of the day or school release. “

Second inflection: When a child will be declared positive, his classmates, contact cases, will have to perform three autototes, against an antigenic test or PCR followed by two autotots currently. What to simplify the procedure that has put thousands of families from the event since the return of the holidays. The distribution of autototes, free, will continue, on the other hand, to be done through pharmacies, on presentation of a certificate of the school.

“The interest of the children”

Third point: Only one certificate indicating that the self-test is negative will be requested for families, “once and for all”, against one at each test today. “Our goal is to leave the schools open to the maximum, because we all know that it is the interest of the children”, hammered Mr Castex.

What to reassure parents and reduce queues in front of pharmacies and laboratories? No doubt – when the autototes are well distributed in time. But what to dispel the union front which, from SNUIPP-FSU to the SGEN-CFDT to the SNES-FSU and SE-UNSA, calls on Thursday, January 13, to the national strike? Nothing is less sure.

Monday night, the tension even seemed to rise up a notch in teacher circles. “The announced changes do not respond to our expectations, reacted Guislaine David, spokesperson for the SNUIPP-Fsu, the primary majority union who, the first, rang the mobilization. We continue to explain that the more we have contamination. At school, the more we lighten. This is exactly the opposite of what should be done at this stage of the epidemic! “His union claims the return to closing a class in the first case of COVID identified In his womb, as was the case before the epidemic situation rays, early December.

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