Return of mask at school: Teachers expect to manage a “big disappointment”

The mask becomes mandatory from Monday in schools of 39 departments where schoolchildren had been able to take away, said Wednesday, November 3rd, the government.

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There are those who talk about an “Yoyo effect”. Others of a “recocera” or a “stop and go”. In the elementary schools of the 39 departments where, because of the revival of the epidemic of Covid-19, the schoolchildren will have to put the mask out of the holidays after taking advantage of a few weeks “without”, as the government announced. , Wednesday, November 3, the directors say “play the watch”.

“We have four days before us, weekend included, to warn colleagues and parents”, testifies Emmanuelle Marais, at the head of a six-class elementary school in Redon (Ille-et-Vilaine) where The students could “fall the mask” on October 11th. At the time, this syndicated at SNUIPP-Fsu had welcomed the “relaxation” of the protocol as a “very good news for the life of the school”, while judging it “no doubt premature”.

They are numerous in the field, today, to think like her: the Ille-et-Villaine is part, with the Ain, the Hautes-Alpes, the Aveyron, the Vendée or the Vienna, From the 39 metropolitan departments to return to level 2 of the health protocol, after temporarily beneficial – between one and three weeks, according to the territories – from the first level (on a scale that consists of four). A preferred embellishment, but short-term: from Monday of the return, it is a total of 57 metropolitan departments and 4 ultramarine territories that will apply Level 2, and 39 level 1, when they were 79 in this case before the leave. . One department – The Mayenne – sees the constraints lighter. For the majority, the degree of vigilance is maintained or increased.

Communication “last minute”

In addition to the recovery of the wearing of the interior mask for students, the announced evolution provides “the limitation of brewing by levels, the increase in the frequency of disinfection and the respect of a physical distancing suitable for physical activity. And sports, [measures that need to be] implemented as soon as possible, “said the ministries of education and health in a common statement broadcast on Wednesday night.

“We have a compass since the beginning of the crisis, it is that since we can reduce stress measures, we do it, defended a few hours earlier the spokesman of the government, Gabriel Attal, At the end of the Council of Ministers. Obviously, this principle is worth in both directions and, as soon as the situation deteriorates, unfortunately, we must reactivate a number of measures. “The threshold is known: above a rate incidence of 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, “we revishes”, breath in schools.

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