Teachers union calls for strengthening health protocol in schools

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This time, the schools will remain open.

Unlike last spring, Emmanuel Macron announced Wednesday evening that schools will continue to welcome students, despite the entry into force on Friday of a national reconfinement.

Gilles Langlois, national secretary of the SE-Unsa teachers' union, was satisfied with this decision but also called for a strengthening of the health protocol.

"It will take a real strengthening of the protection of personnel. Our role as a trade union organization will be to take all measures to protect teachers and students", he assured Wednesday evening on Europe 1.

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Gilles Langlois believes that the decision to leave the schools open is the right one.

"We had clearly measured the effects during the first confinement, which was quite devastating for fragile students. However, there are a number of questions that will arise, in particular on measures to protect students and staff. to be awaiting announcements from the Prime Minister during his press briefing (Thursday evening) ", he said.

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The teachers fear "in particular to be exposed directly to the risks of the epidemic", warned the trade unionist, who is also director of a primary school in Paris.

"We know that the virus does not circulate in kindergarten or primary school, but we know that in middle school and high school it is actively circulating. It will take a real strengthening of personnel protection," he added.