Will the students have lessons on Friday? – The Telegram

No, the students do not bridge Friday November 12 …

Some French employees will be able to make the bridge, Friday, November 12, to take advantage of a long weekend of four days. With their children? No, the general rule is that the children are all expected in class on Friday, the day after November 11.

Only one bridge is provided for by the official calendar of the Ministry of National Education for this school year 2021-2022: during the Ascension, since there will be no class on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 May 2022, allowing a four-day weekend, from 26 to 29 May.

Clearly, unless you have received a letter, e-mail or call from the establishment of your children indicating the contrary, they will have lessons on Friday. Note that in 2022, November 11 will fall on a Friday, synonymous with a three-day weekend for students.

… but there will be no lessons in some establishments

The nuance is subtle. It is not a bridge in the classic sense of the term, but some schools will not provide lessons on Friday, creating, in effect, a four-day weekend for their students. Le Télégramme was able to consult e-mails sent to parents of pupils by Breton colleges and high schools, evoking the holding, on November 12, of a “pedagogical day” (or “unmarked day”) during which only the staff of the establishment are present. The pupils are invited to stay at home, even if, locally, a welcome can be ensured. A device rather used in private education, we are told at the Federation of Parents’ Councils (FCPE), which believes that in the public, the “bridge” of November 12 seems to fall under the exception. .

“Educational” or “trivialized” day: what are we talking about?

Concretely, these are days of consultation and reflection dedicated to teachers and more broadly to national education staff. These may be “individual” initiatives of schools, or even school groups. An unmarked day can also be decreed at the level of the country or an academy. This is not the case, in this case, for Friday, November 12. On the menu for these days: thematic exchange meetings for one establishment, consultation around the continuous examination at the bac for the other … As for November 12, it is probably a “strategic” date to organize such a day, we slip in a Finistère high school: “When we have this kind of configuration with an isolated Friday between a public holiday and a weekend, some of the students do not come to class anyway …”. To those who are expected in class on Friday and who would be tempted to dry out, the Rennes academy indicates that there will be no “specific tolerance” on November 12 and that “parents will have to provide proof if their child is absent on that date ”.