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  • Schools are closing this Friday evening for a week.

  • From April 12, there are two weeks of vacation for all areas in France.

    Colleges and high schools will resume classes a week after school.

  • For Isabelle Rami, teacher, director and member of the teachers' union of the department, this decision is "a kind of relief" in the face of the number of classes that had to close.

Wednesday evening, Emmanuel Macron announced the closure of schools from this Friday.

For maralpine children, classes had started again three weeks ago and a stricter health protocol had been decreed because of the confinement in place since March 18.

Each class, regardless of the grade level, had to close from the first case of contamination, instead of three before.

On Monday, 51 classes were officially closed in the Alpes-Maritimes.

"The latest government announcements are a kind of relief," says Isabelle Rami, teacher in a CM2 class and departmental secretary of the teachers' union, national union of autonomous unions (SE-UNSA 06).

Since the recent protocol updates, we didn't have a single full class in the school.

It is better to take such a step than to close the classes as you go.

It remains a lesser evil for only three days.

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"Three days is nothing"

Classes in schools, colleges and high schools then close for a week.

Then, from April 12, two weeks of school holidays unified to all zones will follow that of home lessons.

The teacher hopes that “that will be enough” and that “it will not be more”.

“With the bank holiday Monday, it's only three days of work at home for the children.

It's nothing.

We had two days to fully explain to the students while insisting that it is not three weeks of vacation.

At least, we no longer have to manage the remote work of the classes which closed because of a case, it was too difficult ”.

Also director of her school, Isabelle Rami thinks particularly of parents during this period.

“With the other teachers, we try not to overload the students with work.

We are aiming for the essential so that there is a measure of autonomy and that parents are not in difficulty.

It is essential that we maintain the link with children as their parents ”.

The first confinement as a "training"

This effort of the directors of establishments is felt for Perrine, mother of three children aged 7, 10 and 13 years old.

“Since returning from the winter holidays, [March 8 for the Alpes-Maritimes], the management has been great with very good communication.

As a parent, we didn't feel abandoned.

The school did everything to be reassuring ”.

Maybe a matter of habit?

“The big question during the announcement was how the parents were going to organize themselves,” says the departmental secretary of SE-UNSA 06. On our side, we were able to anticipate a minimum and we reacted fairly quickly from experience.

Last year, we had that one day, it was the race.

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For Perrine too, there is a certain training.

She explains: “We have been used to being flexible for a year now, even if with each announcement, there is a new cold shower.

So you have to adapt and be responsive.

We can see that schools are adapting better ”.

At the first confinement, she was the one who taught at home, for the three different levels.

"Okay if that allows us to get out of the Covid once and for all"

This time, the photographer will adapt her work for her children, "only three days" for the last two, "one more week for the older ones," she says.

“I had three different reactions to the announcement of the closure.

The little one was worried about missing school and having to make do without her teacher.

The one in the middle was happy and the first one, sad to have to stay in the apartment and not see his friends ”.

Perrine remains positive all the same: “We are lucky that it is only three days of school at home, in other countries, they have been experiencing this situation for a year.

And in our family, we are aware that it is not too difficult on the organizational side.

These confinements create tensions by dint of being on top of each other ”.

She concludes: “But that's fine, we're in Nice, not in Paris.

Even if we can't go to see the grandparents for the holidays, we renew ourselves.

We are struggling because this is the third confinement but okay if it allows us to get out of the Covid once and for all ”.

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