Faced with epidemic rebound, and to avoid closing classes, national education put on testing. On the ground, there is still a preparation.
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Salvation at school come from an increased screening policy? A variant crosses another – Omicron winning field on delta – and national education, a few days later, maintains its cap: test schoolchildren to avoid class closures.
And even if possible, test them more: “To return to school, it will be necessary to present at least twice a negative test for several days apart,” said the Minister of Education, Jean -Michel Blanquer on 28 December on France Inter, the day after the announcement by the government of maintaining the health protocol at unchanged levels. Currently, a schoolboy must have a single negative test to return in progress when a COVID case has been spotted in its class – the second test being only recommended.
The teachers, who have in mind the incubation times of the virus, see it rather good news: to make this second test mandatory would be progress … provided the announcement is confirmed. But this was not at the beginning of the week, a “working hypothesis”, “said Rue de Grenelle in the wake of ministerial speaking. M. Blanquer had recognized on France Inter that the project still had to be “refined”, in connection with the Scientific Council and the High Authority of Health. “Omicron Rebate doctrine cards in terms of the definition of contact cases, isolation and therefore, also the test interval, justified, Thursday, December 30, in the evening, in the Minister’s entourage These clarifications are short enough to decline them in national education. The changes expected for school audiences can only be announced after. “
A laborious campaign
On the weekend? Upstream or in the wake of the start of the school year? Conviced, this same Thursday, to a videoconferencing with the Blanquer firm, the representatives of the teachers’ unions have hardly learned more about screening. “Without the expected scientific and political arbitrations, we do not move, confided Catherine Nave-Bekhti, from the Sgen-CFDT union, at the end of the meeting. The framing remains blurry, and it does not help the educational community to project . “” “Hard to approach the return with optimism, testifies in the same vein Guislaine David, SNUIPP-FSU, the majority union that has filed a” social alert “. Colleagues are preparing to resume their class under the conditions comparable to those preceding Christmas. “
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