She denounces an "ubiquitous" situation, and school pressure which could lead to drama. Florence Claudepierre, president of the federation of parents of pupils FCPE du Haut-Rhin, tells Tuesday on Europe 1 how, in the underprivileged families which do not have all the digital tools at their place, the coronavirus propagated because of the injunction to continue distance education. Forced to collect or physically distribute documents, parents and teachers became infected.
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A "mutual aid" that has spread the disease
"Last week, whatever the cost, the teachers, by showing their will, and the parents, exchanged papers, documents, gave an appointment," details Florence Claudepierre. Sometimes it is a parent who has devoted himself to travel to school to collect lesson sheets, before distributing them to the other parents of students. These people "helped each other with family" and in doing so spread the coronavirus.
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"Now we have teachers, parents, extracurricular staff who are sick," says Florence Claudepierre. "Some are in the intensive care unit." For her, it was the pressure put on "pedagogical continuity" that created such a situation. "The parents of high school students, whose children will therefore take the tests, are extremely stressed", while the date of the baccalaureate has not, for the moment, been postponed.
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"No educational continuity at this price"
"It is not possible", decides the elected member of the FCPE. "It is irresponsible to ask for pedagogical continuity at this price. It starts with good feelings but it is not that the most urgent today. The most urgent is that these children still have parents and teachers when they go back to class. "
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