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  • About forty students gathered at Place Napoléon in La Roche-sur-Yon, at the call of their teacher.

  • "It is not a demonstration but the desire to do my job and to welcome the students to alert them to their deep psychological distress," he explained.

The "street course", organized this Tuesday in La Roche-sur-Yon, in Vendée, was intended to alert on the "deep psychological distress of students", whose establishments remain closed due to Covid-19.

Place Napoléon, in the city center, and in front of a church, Olivier Ertzscheid, lecturer in information and communication at the University of Nantes, held his course in the early afternoon, under a bright sun and in front of a forty students.

Equipped with a headset and an amplifier, he invited his first and second year students of the information-communication DUT of La Roche-sur-Yon but also any student who wishes to take a digital culture course.

"It is not a demonstration but the desire to do my job and to welcome the students to alert them to their deep psychological distress", he explained.

He said he wanted to react "to President Emmanuel Macron's announcement to reopen churches for worship while keeping universities closed."

Concerned students and parents

Since the publication of a column entitled "The university is well worth a mass, to be a student in 2020" on his blog on November 23, this academic has received more than a hundred messages from students or parents worried about the situation. .

"Young people are losing their sleep and reaching a level of stress never reached, especially that we are in period of examinations", he confides.

"My own students experience this confinement as a confinement and the absence of sociability damages them".

According to the teacher, the 100% distance courses have reached their limits.

“Students can no longer spend eight hours a day in front of their screens,” he said.

“Even if we try to adapt and shorten the sessions, the demotivation is gigantic, whatever the profile of the students, from dropouts to the top of the class.

This generation has the impression of no longer having a horizon and going straight into a wall, ”he added.

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