The Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer. - Alfonso Jimenez / REX / SIPA

Jean-Michel Blanquer affirms it: the “majority of the nursery and primary schools” will reopen on May 11, date of the beginning of the progressive deconfinement in the National education. "I think that the majority of schools will reopen (May 11) everywhere on the territory as well as the majority of colleges in the green zone", from May 18, said the Minister of National Education this Friday in an interview put online on the website of  Le Figaro .

The government has set the maximum tonnage at 15 children per class, as part of its deconfinement plan, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Jean-Michel Blanquer recalled that the CP and CE1 classes in REP and REP + (priority education network), ie 300,000 students, "will be able to reopen very quickly, because the classes are for twelve students".

"We have planned a lot of flexibility"

About 60,000 rural school students learn in small classes of less than 15 students, he said. "We have provided a lot of local flexibility so that each school can adjust its student flow according to local realities," said the minister.

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As for the teachers, only "those who do not have a health problem or who do not have a member of their family with fragility with regard to the Covid-19", will physically provide the lessons, said Jean-Michel Blanquer. "We will do a job so that the teachers who stay at home take care of the children who stay at home," he added.

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