Mandatory mask for teachers and pupils and new health rules: around 150,000 young people from 6th and 5th Monday return to college in the green zone, a new step in progressive deconfinement at school. After the return of 1.4 million schoolchildren this week, 85% of secondary schools in France, or 4,000 establishments, partially reopen their doors in the regions least affected by the epidemic. The fate of middle schools in the red zone must be decided at the end of the month, like that of high schools.
The colleges had a little more time than the primary schools to prepare but "it remains a very complicated organization to set up", confides to AFP Audrey Chanonat, principal of a college in La Rochelle and responsible for SNPDEN , first union of school leaders.
"We have to reopen because it is very important that the students get back in touch with the school"
"In the final stretch, we rearrange the classrooms, we remove furniture to respect the distanciations of the health protocol, we stick scotch tape on the ground ... We are reinventing a new school but in a period of time that remains extremely short, ”she regrets. According to this principal, "everything is currently based on a lot of common sense, pragmatism and adaptation". From Monday, it will welcome "between 55% and 60%" of 6th and 5th pupils in groups of "8 to 10 pupils in half-day", "the maximum that we can receive anyway because our rooms classes are only between 35 and 38m2, ”she describes.
But she remains convinced of it: “It is necessary to reopen because it is very important that the pupils resume contact with the school. »And« with the girlfriends! », Rejoices already Stella, in 6th in a college of Dinan (Côtes-d'Armor). "I can't stand it any longer, I want to find them too much, I haven't seen them for two months, it's too long". She already knows that "the two days of lessons" that she will have per week "will not really be lessons" but "the opportunity to take stock of everything that we are supposed to have retained". "And that is reassuring," she believes.
"It's still going a little too fast"
Wearing the mandatory mask? "It's going to be a bit strange, of course, but we're going to get used to it, no choice," she summarizes, wondering if she will need "maybe two each day." Under recent modifications to the health protocol in colleges, wearing a mask remains compulsory for pupils and also becomes compulsory for teachers. On the side of the ministry, one assures that "significant stocks of masks adults and children have been sent to the rectorships in the last two weeks".
"According to the return of colleagues, there are many places where the masks have sometimes not arrived," regrets Anne-Sophie Legrand, head of the college sector at Snes-FSU, the first secondary union. "We have the impression that things are going a little too quickly," she adds. Each college decides on the rhythm of the alternation of small groups, either half-day, every other week or by block of day.
"We lost a lot of people on the way"
In Sophie's class, professor of mathematics in a middle school in Grisolles (Tarn-et-Garonne), “the 6th will come on Monday and Thursday. The 5th on Tuesday and Friday, for 7 hours of lessons per day and 10 students per assigned class from which they will not move, ”she explains. "Priority has been given to the children of nursing staff, those in precarious numbers and to school dropouts", underlines this teacher.
For Nicolas Anoto, professor of history and geography in a priority education college in Béziers and national delegate SE-UNSA, "the educational objective will be to reconnect with our students and to take stock because we have unfortunately lost a lot of people on the way, "he says.
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