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The start of the 2020 school year will take place on Tuesday, September 1 for schoolchildren in France with a reduced health protocol. Worried about the start of the school year, a teachers' union asks to postpone the start of the school year.
Staggered back to school, masks imposed inside and outside the school, social distancing, schoolchildren around the world are slowly returning to school according to the health rules imposed by their country. In France, the health protocol provides for the return of all students to class marked by the end of physical distancing and a compulsory mask from 11 years old inside or outside "when the distance of one meter cannot be guaranteed and the pupils are placed face to face or side by side" or "that it does not accommodate all the students".
A re-entry still unclear
Following the relaxation of the health protocol and the increase in the number of cases, teachers still remain uncertain about this return to school, like Mélody Cocino, a nursery school teacher. "I am a little apprehensive about this return to school, which promises to be strange, still a little fuzzy and more anxiety-provoking than usual, we are waiting to see if this protocol will be the one that will be effective at the start of the school year or if a new protocol will be released depending on the 'evolution of virus circulation. "
Thus, two weeks before the start of the school year, a teachers' union is asking to postpone the start of the school year. "We are asking to postpone the start of the school year, so that teachers can have several days of pre-entry in the week of August 31, to be able to prepare for this re-entry, which is not normal but under Covid. Ideally, we would need the week of the 31st to be able to prepare for a peaceful return the following week, "said Guislaine David, Secretary General of the SNUipp-FSU.
However, in the event of an epidemic resumption, the Ministry of Education has planned a "reinforced protocol", with the possibility of having part-time face-to-face and distance lessons. "But the organization of this protocol requires discussions ", estimates Guislaine David on RTL. "All this we need to discuss because materially it requires a number of things for teachers. "
Lack of preparation
The main fear of the unions would be to reproduce the pattern of March. "We were forced to shut down all the establishments in a disaster without any preparation, without any infrastructure …" indignant Pierre Priouret, co-secretary general of Snes-FSU Midi-Pyrénées. Thus, the union is asking for a new opinion from the Scientific Council to create a dialogue with the ministry. "We want to be guided by the Scientific Council, but the ministry must also position itself. And we have to discuss the conditions under which some schools will have to resume, because there are places where the virus circulates more easily, and where a little more stringent measures will have to be taken. "