Covid-19: the health protocol applicable to school at the start of the school year – The HuffPost

via Associated PressCovid-19: the health protocol applicable to school at the start of the school year (Photo of students taken on the day of the start of the school year on September 2, 2021 by AP Photo/Jean-François Badias, File)PROTOCOL – National Education and Health presented this Tuesday, July 12 to the teachers’ unions the new framework of the health protocol in the face of covid applicable to school from the start of the school year, providing in particular for a period of 10 days to allow educational teams to adapt to different scenarios. , according to the unions. For the start of the 2022 school year, the ministry plans “a graduated health framework based on a base of recommendations (equivalent to a normal situation) and three levels of measures, which can be activated according to the context”, explained to the AFP Marie-Hélène Piquemal, national vice-president of Snalc. Three levels of vigilance According to the unions contacted by AFP, “level 1 is equivalent to moderate vigilance, the reminder and the encouragement of barrier gestures, the limitation tion of important groupings. Level 2 has increased vigilance, reinforcement of barrier gestures, adaptation of practical methods in physical education and sports (EPS). Level 3 is equivalent to a very unfavorable development, with a doctrine of reception in high school and reinforcement of restrictive measures (limited physical and sporting activities)”. The level of protocol that will frame the start of the new school year in September will not be decided until the end of August, a few days before the return of the 12 million students to classes. The determination of the level of protocol “rests on the Council defense and national security (CDSN), on the proposal of the health authorities and the Ministry of Education. This decision will also be based on qualitative (nature of the variant, etc.) and quantitative (hospital situation) analysis”, according to Ms. Piquemal. 10 days for the implementation of the transition from one level to another, which is new”, underlines to AFP Sophie Vénétitay, general secretary of Snes-FSU, the first primary union. “It will allow the teams to have more time to adapt on the pitch. It will be much more effective than the hasty announcements made this year,” she added. Regarding the wearing of a mask, the protocol provides for “an alignment of the school with the general population. There is no specific rule in the school environment, no more specific school testing policy, nor any specific contact tracing system in the school environment”, according to Ms. Vénétitay. The local authorities and the parents’ federations of students must also be consulted on this protocol on Wednesday. See also on The HuffPost: Covid-19: The reintegration of unvaccinated caregivers is controversial at the Assembly