While discussions begin to alleviate the health rules on the return of winter holidays, viral traffic remains high in schools.
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While a slight wind of optimism breath among epidemiologists, with a curve of contaminations that seems to move down, it is difficult to enter schools. Audrey Pellarin, who teaches French in a college of seeon (Isère), draws in this end of January this annoyed observation: “We are clearly the last wheel of the carriage and, at the same time, we count on us to keep the children so that Parents can go to work. “” In the first line “,” poorly protected “, even” despised “, these are the terms that come back most often, in the mouth of teachers, after two years of pandemic and several difficult weeks, since the Back to school. While the government begins to consider relief from the health protocol to the return of the winter holidays, the teachers struggle to see the exit of the tunnel.
A health defense council should address this issue on Wednesday 2 February. According to our information, two options are on the table, because of the spread of leave by zones, between February 6 and March 6. The government can decide to apply a less drastic protocol everywhere on the same date, or enjoy the “bellows” holiday returns to implement it gradually.
While waiting for this possible relaxation, the number of closed classes remains high: more than 21,000, the highest figure since the spring 2020, according to the weekly assessment of the 28 January, which indicates that 570 000 Students have been declared positive at COVID during the week, as well as 35,000 teachers.
“We are like you can”
If he begins to question relaxation, the teachers, they are therefore “in full in”, according to their own expression. At the high viral traffic is added the complexity of the current protocol, which plans to ask parents of the certificates for tests carried out by their children. “We are no longer doing that, school life spends its time checking the certificates of students, says Audrey Pellin. And again, when they are there. This week, half of the school life is covidated.”
Some patterns of satisfaction have however been recently recorded. The professors interviewed report having received masks, surgical or FFP2 for those who wished, during the last week of January. Deliveries that concord with the schedule scheduled for the teaching mobilization of January 13th. “It’s not too early,” comment in choir teachers.
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