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Nearly 50,000 students have tested positive for the coronavirus since Monday. About thirty school structures and more than 9,000 classes had to close. Never seen since the spring of 2021. Story based on the cases of a high school and a college.
Rarely (ever?) Have teachers experienced such a complicated start to the school year. Since the beginning of the week, it is in the face of sparse benches that the teachers have been teaching, seeing their class empty to the rhythm of contaminations and contact cases. As throughout France, the Covid is circulating at a speed never seen before in schools at the start of 2022. And with a health protocol requiring immediate and regular tests for each new case detected in a class, that’s all. the organization of establishments which is disrupted.
In Provins (Seine-et-Marne), the Thibaut-de-Champagne high school was forced to close its doors barely three days after the start of the school year. “Monday morning, when we made the roll call, we realized that about 20% of our students were absent, says Adrien Dormois, math teacher in the establishment. From the first recess, with other teachers but also some of the school’s staff, we got together to discuss the situation. ” On this first day of classes in 2022, 80 students out of the 1,100 in the Lycée m…