INTERVIEW
The re-entry post-confinement promises to be complex. Many mayors consider it impossible to set up a general start of the school year from May 11, at least in compliance with the health protocols requested by the state against the coronavirus. But for the child psychiatrist Marcel Rufo, it is necessary to send the children back to the school benches, to avoid the installation of too big gaps. "There is a cognitive emergency," he pleads at the microphone of Europe 1.
"It is important to separate to grow up. School is the work of children. Teachers must ask children to return to school", explains Marcel Rufo. "The most troubled children are at risk of amputating cognitive damage. It's like losing a limb, this delay will not be made up," he warns.
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A widening of inequalities
Above all, the period of confinement risks promoting inequalities between children from different social categories, with, on the one hand, those who will have had access to quality school supervision in recent weeks, and those who will not have been able receive the same attention, sometimes due to complex family situations. "For this category of people who do not have distance education, or the means to go to school at home, we create two France", deplores Marcel Rufo.
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"We must stop widening this gap, between France, which has cultural, social and economic resources, and the other, in difficulty," he continues. "School equalizes opportunities, it is our oil for the future", concludes this child psychiatrist.