“We fully appreciate the damage of distance. For good students, this has changed nothing but for the means and the weakest, the result is catastrophic, ”notes a teacher from the Rosa-Parks high school in Thionville (formerly Colbert high school).
However, the long-awaited and feared return to school has erected invisible barriers between teachers and students that are difficult to circumvent. Sanitary protocol requires. “Wearing the mask all day, especially when it’s hot, it’s very painful. For some time now, we have noticed a relaxation on the part of high school students. In class, the mask goes down under the nose or even under the chin and we have to constantly police, ”points out the teacher, who also complains of the difficulty in dictating his class with mouth protection. “The pupils often ask to repeat, the exchanges are less spontaneous, the listening disturbed”.
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An “anxiety-provoking” climate
Whatever may be said, wearing a mask is also a brake on socialization. “Putting a first name on each student in normal times, when you have more than a hundred, is not easy, but with masked faces, it’s even worse”.
This same professor also describes a climate of “anxiety” fueled by many contradictions that the faculty has difficulty in grasping. “With 35 students per class on average in second and terminal, physical distancing does not exist. Ditto in the corridors between lessons and during recess. And I am not talking about the windows that we cannot open when it is recommended to ventilate the rooms between each class if we want to limit the risk of the virus spreading. “
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