In his speech on Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron announced that schools, colleges and high schools would remain open during the confinement, ensuring educational continuity. This announcement, for many teachers, raises, a few days before the start of the school year, many questions. This Friday, on arrival first instructions on behalf of the Ministry of National Education, this teacher from a Lycée Thionvillois confides to be “a little sad. We were given a health protocol that was difficult to apply and which did not change much from the previous one. I have the impression that since March, things have dragged on in the ministries and rectorates to get to this. It would have been easier to split the classes in two, to have one group one week, give them work to return two weeks later and give the other group the following week. The classes would have been lightened. Regarding me, leaving schools open is an admission that school telework has not worked well. The confinement has damaged some children who arrived in second with, in all, four or five months of third class as luggage. “
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Unprecedented uncertainty and vagueness
Like an echo, Bruno Henry, academic general secretary for the union SNES-FSU , also points to the vagueness in which his colleagues find themselves. “We received, late Thursday evening, a new protocol that I could summarize as“ when possible ”, because what is asked of us is not. We must avoid stirring, space the children a meter apart in the canteen, ventilate regularly… The fear that there is is what will happen when we realize that all this is not feasible. With classes of around thirty students in high school, establishments must not become places of contamination, ”explains Bruno Henry, taking for example the data from Public Health France which, at the beginning of October, indicated that 36% of clusters under investigation were located in the school environment. “The other end of the school year is the tribute to our colleague Samuel Paty, who was assassinated on October 16. Information is supposed to arrive this Friday afternoon or this weekend, we do not officially know if our return will be at 8 a.m. or 10 a.m. We are in unprecedented uncertainty and uncertainty. “
At the end of the afternoon, an email from the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer informed the teachers that “all the students will resume lessons as usual” this Monday while a minute of silence will be observed at 11 hours. The email also contained links to educational resources to discuss the tribute in class.
For this teacher, the future seems all mapped out. “I think that in four weeks, at most, they will have no choice but to close the establishments. A form of resignation tinged with a certain annoyance. “We are solicited by parents who want, rightly, to know the exact time of the return to school on Monday. However, we still have no official information on this subject other than through the media … We did have a health protocol but no timetable. “
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