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Masks and CO2 sensors were distributed this Monday morning in Seine-Saint-Denis to students of Georges-Politzer college, an establishment still relatively spared by absences. Parents of students regret a health protocol that is hard to read and communicated at the last minute.
A little before 8 a.m. at La Courneuve, in the long back-to-school procession, the mask is there. More often screwed on the faces of the students of the Georges-Politzer college not very well awake, than of the high school students of Jacques-Brel, just next door, visibly more adepts of the style under the chin. The latter retrace their New Year’s Eve, the former tell their vacation, without seeming to be unduly interested in the disturbing growth of the omicron variant, and its 160,000 contaminations on average last week, which nevertheless comes to play the spoilsport in this first return to school in 2022.
Three tests in four days
It must be said that for the students, the health protocol at school is far from being upset. The risk levels – 3 out of 4 in elementary schools, 2 in middle and high schools – are not changing. There is even a little more flexibility since there will be no more class closures from three cases of Covid-19. The only real novelty is a strategy of increased follow-up: students will have to take three tests in four days if there is a positive in the class, including two self-tests that they can collect for free at the pharmacy.
“Do not forget to put the mask on the children”, recalls the principal of Politzer college, Arnaud Trappiez, at…