Plexiglas (illustration).

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  • A video relayed on Facebook shows a classic classroom… except for the plexiglass windows separating each individual office.

  • “A teacher films the new classroom which will welcome her students in the USA at the start of the school holidays… Perhaps in France too are we heading towards this kind of madness?

    », The Internet user who broadcasts it is alarmed.

  • This device has been installed in several schools in South Carolina.

Desks, chairs… and plexiglass all the time.

On Facebook, a video relayed by an Internet user denounces the health system that would have been set up in a classroom across the Atlantic.

“A teacher films the new classroom which will welcome her students in the USA at the start of the school holidays… Perhaps in France too are we heading towards this kind of madness?

Is this really the world we want for our children?

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“, He wonders about these images showing offices individually partitioned by plexiglass barriers.

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The video, authentic, was filmed in the United States.

More precisely at the end of January 2021 in a primary school in South Carolina by Teresa Holmes, a teacher who thus challenged the management of the establishment on the practical aspect of such a device, as noted in an article in the local media WMBF News.

“There are 28 offices in the room.

If we resume a rhythm of 5 days a week, with the end of distance courses, we will have to count 30 or 32. This is the middle of the back row, this is the view that the students will have.

I'm not sure I can teach in such conditions, ”we hear him say in the video.

She is far from the only one to have expressed such reservations, since a group of teachers had also relayed their concerns at the same time and petitions calling for the removal of these protections.

Since then, the school group in question has announced that it intends to generalize this device in all its establishments by March 15.

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