The association of mayors of Ile-de-France, including the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, wrote Sunday to Emmanuel Macron asking him to postpone the reopening of the schools to a date later than May 11, denouncing a deconfinement "on the march" forced ”.
"The preparation for the deconfinement is done in a calendar with forced march, while we do not yet have all the information to prepare the population, and that the directives are fluid", argue the 329 mayors signatories of the open letter to the president , published on the La Tribune website , among which is the PS mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo.
"We, the mayors of Ile-de-France, solemnly ask you to postpone the date of reopening of the schools in the case of departments classified red and in particular of Ile-de-France to a date later than May 11, which will allow the strict application of an equally strict health protocol which is just beginning to be disseminated to cities ”, write the mayors.
The calendar "is, in most of our municipalities, untenable and unrealistic"
The councilors also ask the President of the Republic "that the State ensures that all health conditions are met" and "not to rest on the mayors the legal, political and moral responsibility for the reopening of schools", then that parliamentarians consider initiatives to better legally protect mayors.
They also ask him "to ask (his) government to clearly prioritize the children who can / will have to go back to school", that "sufficient financial means will be given to the municipalities for" after-school care and " so that there are incomprehensible administrative logics in terms of equipment for educational personnel ”.
The calendar "is, in most of our municipalities, untenable and unrealistic", explain the city councilors. "We learn, ten days before the date of reopening of the schools, that it would be up to the mayors to decide on the reopening of the schools, and to the parents to decide on the return towards the way of the classes of their children", and "that we do not Let us know that on May 7, on the eve of a three-day weekend preceding the start of the new school year, if our departments are officially classified in the red zone, ”they develop. "All of this cannot be improvised overnight".
The mayors of Ile-de-France also believe that they do not understand "how it is possible to reconcile the objective of volunteering and to overcome social and territorial inequalities".
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