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In Mérignac, Paris or Lille, the return of students to class on Monday in the midst of the outbreak of Covid cases took place against a backdrop of concern but especially fatigue, after nearly two years of health measures often announced at the last minute.
My school is going to crack. For two years, they have bent over backwards, they have played along, they have adapted. But faced with the new epidemic wave, the fear of omicron and the health protocol adapted on the fly on the eve of the start of the school year, parents, teachers, directors, education assistants or school nurses have a big deal out. Travel to a very tired school planet.
8 hours at La Courneuve:
There is at least one instruction that has not changed for two years. “Don’t forget to put on the mask”, recalls the principal of Politzer college, Arnaud Trappiez, welcoming the 700 students on this start day. Under the nose, hanging from one ear or screwed under fogged glasses: the methods differ. For teens, “It is clear that it is complicated, a re-entry in the current context, but for the moment it is going well”, explains the head of the school. Maybe because it’s early and “That we do not have too many returns from families yet”. Only two teachers absent for the moment but weariness among everyone. “We have the impression that it is endless”, tells a college cook in the middle of preparing the meal.
8 hours in the Bouches-du-Rhône:
Spanish teacher, Bernadette discovers the state of the (meager) troops at the time of her first class: a third of the students in her third class are missing. Next lesson with fifths: 6 absent out of 29. Reason? Unknown at this point. In…