After the major strike led by the teaching staff on Thursday January 13, Jean Castex returned to the columns of nice morning on the health protocol imposed in the classes by somewhat admitting the flaws of the latter.
Thursday, January 13, the teachers were in the street, brandishing many signs caricaturing the prime minister, Jean Castex. It must be said that anger has continued to rumble about the multiple upheavals of the health protocol set up in the schools. A management of the health crisis that Jean Castex analyzed in the columns of nice morning on January 15 in apologizing for the difficulties that some may have encountered in the face of its measures: “If things haven’t always been understood, it’s because sometimes we misunderstood.” And to continue: “We may have made mistakes.”
Jean-Castex seems to have heard Fed up the French. As proof, in order to ease tensions and keep classes always open, the Élysée announced on Friday January 14 three measures of simplification of the protocol. But despite his mea-culpa, Emmanuel Macron’s right-hand man insisted on exposing the consistency of the decisions criticized which would be based “on the opinions of scientific authorities“.”When the High Council of Public Health says that children must be tested three times, Do not count on me to say it’s twice“, he thus specified with firmness.
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Tensions within the government
The thorny question of the health protocol in schools has not only taken aback teachers and parents of students. The President of the Republic in person got wind of these discords and would have expressed his displeasure : “The president of the Republic was furious to see everywhere the testimonies of exasperated parents by dint of running everywhere to find a pharmacy. He put a coops of pressure“, revealed an adviser to Emmanuel Macron at the Parisian January 11.
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