After All Saints’ Day, back to school under the sign of Covid-19 – archyde

Twenty months of health crisis have taught them not to take anything for “Acquired”. After a start in September more “Serene” that expected, the teachers of the first degree are well aware of orchestrating, from Monday, November 8, a return to class under the sign of a resurgence of the epidemic. This is particularly true in the thirty-nine departments where schoolchildren return from the All Saints holidays masked, after having been able to enjoy a few weeks. ” without ” : the government announced, Wednesday, November 3, the list of all the territories which, because they have tilted in recent days above the symbolic incidence rate of 50 cases of Covid per 100,000 inhabitants, are climbing the ladder of a health protocol designed on four levels.

In total, now fifty-seven metropolitan departments and three overseas territories apply level 2 (with the mask worn indoors by schoolchildren), and thirty-nine level 1 (without a mask in elementary school) when they were seventy-eight in this case before the All Saints holiday. Only one territory (Mayenne) has seen the constraints lighten. Only one other, Guyana, remains at level 4, the highest. For the majority, the degree of vigilance is maintained or increased.

” No choice “

From one school to another, the same expressions come up in the testimonies of teachers: there are those who talk about“Yoyo effect”, others from “Retreat” or even “Stop and go” … With the feeling, however, of not having ” no choice “, observed Laurent Tintet, school director in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques – one of the departments where schoolchildren wear the mask again after being exempted from it in mid-October. “Things are flaring around us a lot, it was already starting to flare up before the holidays, explains this union member to SE-UNSA forced to close three classes since September. Today, onot changes from green to orange, of which act. But the goal is not to go red. The school must also be used for that: to make pedagogy to remind the children – and through them, the parents – that the epidemic is not behind us. “

A pragmatism that the teachers’ unions also defend. “What is happening in schools is a sign that the crisis will last, underlines Guislaine David, from SNUIpp-FSU, in the majority in primary school. Whether we like it or not, the Covid, we take it for a few years … “ “We have always known that the epidemic should be watched like milk on fire, notes, in the same vein, Catherine Nave-Bekhti of SGEN-CFDT. Faced with ebb and flow, we have no other choice but to adapt. “” When the government announced to us, at the end of September, the possibility of removing the mask, part of the speech was missing., breathes Stéphane Crochet at SE-UNSA: this mask, do not store it too far! “

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