So come into force this Monday, February 21: the lifting of the obligation to wear a mask in the playground in elementary schools, a relaxation of the rules for mixing students who can now be more widely mixed with classmates of their level. and no longer just their class, and the end of the sworn certificates that families gave after the first self-test.
Colleges and high schools remain at level 2 protocol.
The lightening of the health protocol for the start of the winter holidays is made possible thanks to a health situation “in very marked improvement”. According to figures published Friday by the rue de Grenelle, there are currently, with two areas on vacation, 2,274 classes closed, against 16,836 on February 3.
According to the level 2 protocol, “students can be divided into a class corresponding to their level in the event of the absence of their teacher”, writes the ministry. In the canteen, “the same students have lunch every day at the same table in the first grade. “.
For Guislaine David, general secretary of SNUipp-FSU, the first primary school union, “the resumption of school will be much more serene than it was in January”.
The rules will also be relaxed for the tests: from February 28, contact case students will no longer have to do three but only one after two days (D2).
And the end of the mask in the classroom? The Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer recently mentioned this hypothesis: children should “very likely” be able to remove the mask indoors at school “before the end of the school year”.