In a school canteen in Marseille.

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P. MAGNIEN / 20 MINUTES

  • In Marseille, the application of the new health protocol in the canteens of the city's schools, which are often small and overcrowded, is debated.

  • This protocol extends the serving time, to the point that children eat after 2 p.m.

  • The town hall is considering in particular the removal of the entrance to shorten this time.

Eat only with the students in your class, disinfect the furniture between each service, keep a distance of one meter between each student on the tables ... In the too cramped and overcrowded schools of Marseille, the canteen now turns into a puzzle to be able to respect the new government health protocol.

To the point of making the mayor of Marseille jump, challenged on Twitter by a mother of a student "You are 1,000 times right, this protocol is unmanageable, writes Benoît Payan in a tweet on Thursday.

[…] Children and staff alike can't take it any longer.

Which restaurant can organize seven different services for lunch?

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"Eat in twenty minutes like robots"

Since the implementation of this protocol at the beginning of last week, in several Marseille schools, the service has dragged on, well beyond the 14 hours required by National Education.

“Yesterday, the children finished eating at 3:15 pm, almost at snack time, therefore, indignant Marie Ruggiu, CGT union delegate and team leader at the canteen of the Canet Jean-Jaurès nursery school, in the 14th arrondissement of Marseille.

It's horrible.

When they arrive, they are hungry, dear.

It's inhumane.

For me, this is abuse.

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“In our school, where there is little room, since November, there are four services between 11 am and 1:30 pm, confides Christelle Pourroy, president of the parents' association of the Leverrier school, in the fourth arrondissement of Marseille.

There, they had to split into seven to eight serves.

And on Monday, for example, the service lasted three and a half hours.

There is nervousness in our children.

Even those who did not complain about the canteen are reluctant to go.

There, it is not possible, apart from making the children eat in twenty minutes like robots… ”

An "unacceptable" protocol according to Benoît Payan

“Four hours of non-stop service, and children who eat at 3 pm, it is unacceptable,” abounds the mayor of Marseille, who appealed to the government.

“I urgently ask for clear, logical and concerted rules, for support and means for those who must apply them.

For our children, for our public service agents, I say it to Jean-Michel Blanquer: amateurism, improvisation and lack of consultation, that's enough!

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“As soon as we learned of this protocol, we worked with the services of the town hall of Marseille, answers Vincent Stanek, academic director of Bouches-du-Rhône.

The city then sent a note to its services on January 15 to implement it.

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Thirty problematic schools

And to put it into perspective: “There are still 30 schools out of 470, or 8.5%, in which the protocol is not fully established.

We make ourselves available to the city of Marseille for these schools.

Today, I asked the inspectors of National Education to mobilize to work concretely on these questions, and we have already organized working meetings with the services of the city of Marseille to see where are coming from. The problems.

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"This protocol cannot be applied," tances Arabelle Lauzat, head of the schools section of the FO union of territorial members of the city of Marseille.

We are asking the town hall to take political decisions ”“ Our goal is the well-being of children and to keep catering open, ”says Pierre Huguet, deputy in charge of school canteens.

We will be inventive and we will find solutions.

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Private entry?

Which ones?

The elected refuses to detail them for the time being.

The application of the previous protocol could be tolerated in some schools in tension as of Monday, in particular in the Leverrier school "following the efforts of the person in charge of the canteen, and by sounds serious", according to Christelle Pourroy.

According to Séverine Gil, president of the association of parents of pupils MPE13, in other schools, a picnic could be offered to the pupils in rotation, served in the classes and supervised by voluntary municipal agents from other services. today untapped, such as swimming pools.

Finally, the elimination of entry for all students is also an approach envisaged in order to reduce service time.

"We must keep the canteens open"

“To delete a dish shocks me deeply, indignant the leader LR in the city council Catherine Pila.

Children must eat properly, especially in Marseille where, for many, it is their only complete meal a day!

"We are very worried about our children whose menus are modified", breathes Christelle Pourroy.

"We are conciliatory," sighs Séverine Gil, president of the association of parents of students MPE13.

Everyone is ready to adapt and make sacrifices in these times of crisis.

We would just like our children to have a hot meal….

But above all, you have to keep the canteens open because if you close the canteens, the children will no longer be able to go to school.

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While a national strike notice was filed by several National Education unions for Tuesday, January 26, the unions of Marseille canteens do not also rule out stopping work in protest.

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  • Benoît Payan

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  • Marseilles

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