Normandy high schools will only reopen for missions "absolutely necessary like passing exams" or "convening juries", declared this Sunday on Franceinfo the president of the Normandy region, Hervé Morin (Les Centristes).
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced Tuesday that the high schools will remain closed on May 11 and that a decision on their reopening in June, starting with professional high schools, will be made at the end of the month depending on the level of the coronavirus epidemic.
Reopening for three to four effective days? Not worth it
In Normandy, Hervé Morin decided not to reopen the high schools. "We will open the high schools for the absolutely necessary missions and on a case-by-case basis," he declared on Sunday to Franceinfo's microphone. This reopening will be done "to pass exams, bring together juries, allow students in the first year of prep to have at least one month of schooling because they do not stop until early July," he continues.
If the high schools were to reopen "from June 2, Monday is a public holiday and Tuesday is the return of teachers". “So there are two effective days left in the first week. The second week, we have class councils. That is to say, we are going to reopen high schools with the complexity we know for exactly three to four effective days of class since we are in a half-group, ”noted Hervé Morin.
What about transportation?
"Is it very useful to engage in such an operation with the risk of creating new clusters, of relaunching the epidemic, for three to four effective days of class per high school student whereas today, are they able to follow their education from a distance? He asked.
The other problem concerns school transport. "We have 130,000 young people who are transported every day in buses," he added. "If we have to recover the primary, middle and high school students, we will never have enough means of transport" to be able to comply with sanitary measures, he believes.
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