“I remove it, I do not take it away. I hesitated whole morning”: dilemma of end of mask at school

At the Saint-Exupéry College in Paris, students and teachers oscillate between relief and concern about the relief of the health protocol in a context of epidemic rebound. The vast majority decided to discover the face

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“And if we sang, just heart (…). If we sang, without taking the head (…).” Santa Hurel, Professor of Music, found the song idine for his class of 6 e On Monday, March 14, day that marks the entry into force of the end of the obligation of the port of the mask at school. “Sing with a bright face,” she asks her students from the Saint-Exupéry College in Paris who live their first day without mask in the establishment. On the twenty students, only a few are wearing it again. The teacher expresses his relief. Teaching music with a mask raised the challenge: hard to know if the students really sang or even if they were listening. The college students also enjoy this moment, even if they find the situation “weird”. “We had accustomed each other, we feel almost naked without the mask”, ensure in Choir Shaynez, Corentin and Raphael.

The main, colette chick, informed the 340 families of the College of the New Modalities of the Sanitary Protocol Friday, March 11th. So on Monday, March 14 in the morning, see who is hidden or not at all a “surprise”. Among the students, there are those who withdrew happily for “can finally breathe” as Corentin in 6 e ; Those who keep it “still a little, the time to get used to this new configuration”, like Lya, student of 3 e ; And those who put it under the nose or just on the chin, as if they could not choose yet. The vast majority chose to remove it and according to classes, the proportion of hidden pupils varies from a few units to nearly a third party. The group effect seems to play full. It is enough for a pupil to keep his mask so that his girlfriends keep him too.

The feelings are ambivalent. Theo was afraid of having an hour of glue when he came to college without the precious fumbles on Monday morning. Like him, students are delighted to no longer risk the remonstrances of teachers for a poorly put mask. On the other hand, small arrangements with the rules end today: chew a chewing gum in progress or simply chatting in all discretion proved easier with the mask than without.

“Without mask, we can be ugly”

At the first recreation of the morning, it is the face of teachers who concentrates the conversations. “I imagined it older, the music teacher”, comments a student of 6 e . “I did not realize that he had a beard as provided, the math teacher,” says another. If the teenagers had already met with the physiognomy of their comrades in the courtyard or canteen, many see for the first time the head of their teachers.

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