Jean-Michel Blanquer, a minister taken in Omicron Storm

The government’s volte-face on health protocols in schools and approximate communication have weakened its position. Without being dropped, the Minister of Education has few allies.

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The kit was closed, the binder ready to be stored. Three months of the presidential election of April 10th and 24th, Jean-Michel Blanquer managed on a gentle sloping the end of his five-year old at the Ministry of National Education. The former rector, member of the Circle (restricted) of the Elysee’s favorites, made his assessment in the media and worked on the construction of his think tank, the laboratory of the Republic, intended to feed the campaign of Emmanuel Macron on secularism and fighting “wokism”, a current of fight against discrimination, which according to him the company. It was not to mention the Omicron bottom blade, which challenges all the certainties accumulated for two years on the CVIV-19 epidemic, and helps to pale your star.

Since the beginning of January 3, schools are immersed in a mess that highlights millions of students, parents and teachers. The images of endless queues in front of pharmacies and laboratories to test your child have turned loop on television and social networks. In eight days, the government has already reviewed its health protocol three times. And the Minister of National Education undergoes a surveillance of among the most violent criticisms he had to face since 2017. Teacher unions called for a day of strike, Thursday, January 13, while parents of students are guests by their representatives not to send their children to class that day.

In the face of this Bronca, unwelcome to the presidential approach, the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, was forced to climb to the forehead. It is he, and not Jean-Michel Blanquer, who went on the plateau of the 20-hour newspaper of France 2, Monday, to announce a “simplification” of the protocol. Now, no need to go through the pharmacy box: three autototes, each carried out two days apart, will suffice for students who have been in contact with a positive case at CVIV-19 in their class. Eleven million self-stintage kits must be routed in the pharmacies to meet the breaks of stock, affirmed the head of government. In addition, parents will eventually wait until the end of the day before recovering their child “contact case”. And they will only have one attestation on the honor to be given to certify that the latter presents a negative test allowing him to return to class.

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