It is THE sacrificed matter of the health protocol set up by the National Education. Physical and Sports Education. This Wednesday afternoon, PE teachers from Seine-Saint-Denis demonstrated in front of the academic management of Bobigny to demand the reopening of indoor sports facilities closed to all students in France since mid-January because of the pandemic of Covid-19. For two months, their teachers have therefore been forced to teach outside.
“It’s an unnamed bazaar!” If there are establishments that have a stadium, we have municipalities like Aulnay-sous-Bois, Sevran or Epinay-sur-Seine, where we can have up to six or seven middle and high school classes on one same field at the same time. How do you want to work in these conditions? »Breathes Hugo Pontais, academic secretary of the teachers’ union of EPS SNEP-FSU Créteil.
He started a petition about it. “We have to turn,” he continues. Suddenly, some of the colleagues spend an hour in the classroom with the students to make room! ”Not to mention the classes canceled because of the rain, the young people once again finishing in the classroom.
On its website, the Ministry of National Education indicates that in the event of “absence of external equipment” or “meteorological conditions incompatible with a practice adapted to health constraints, teachers can organize theoretical PE lessons. , tutorials, film (or other) in class ”.
“Pupils need it more than ever physically and psychologically”
“We try to occupy them as best we can: Invictus, Rasta Rockett, quips Hugo Pontais, citing the names of films. Not only are we locked up but in addition, the protocol does not allow us to do exciting things outside because we have to keep two meters between the students, wash the equipment all the time… There is a form of wear and tear on colleagues. We have become daycare center animators and during that time, we see our young people getting bogged down. It is a public health issue that seems totally forgotten. However, playing sports can be learned! “
The teachers would like to have access to the gymnasiums again. “There are plenty of things we could do without endangering anyone, such as table tennis lessons, for example,” explains Hugo Pontais.
“This restriction, it’s big nonsense, also criticizes Alixe Rivière, co-president of the association of parents of students FCPE 93, who participated in the rally. There is no coordination between the establishments. Suddenly, this leads to a curious mixing on the outside grounds. It is worrying to see that our teenagers, who already have no more leisure, hardly do any more sport at an age when they need it more than ever physically and psychologically. This necessarily affects the school climate. “
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The representative considers the measure inconsistent. “Students can group together in a small classroom of 25, but not in a gymnasium, even to do individual sport. There is no logic. “
Contacted, the academic direction was not able, this Wednesday evening, to answer our questions.
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