In the spotlight: notebooks, pencils and self-tests

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After three weeks of closure, nursery and primary schools are once again welcoming their students to France.

(Photo taken on March 30, in the Jeanne d'Arc private school, in Saint-Maur-des-Fosses, near Paris) © REUTERS - GONZALO FUENTES

By: Frédéric Couteau Follow

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This is the great title of

Sud-Ouest

on this back-to-school Monday for kindergartens and primary schools, which therefore welcome their students again today. “ 

But,

underlines

Sud-Ouest, with reinforced precautions: the saliva tests should multiply there. The secondary, it remains in distance, by trying to better anticipate the dysfunctions

. "

Attention, warns

Liberation

, “ 

the health hazard for teachers and their students remains exactly the same as three weeks ago, because nothing was done during this interlude to set up feasible, secure and budgeted protocols. Thus, while the curve for the number of new daily infections is still at a very high level, the vast majority (87%) of National Education personnel are still not a priority for vaccination. And this even among educators of the youngest, who face children without masks. 

"

In fact,

Liberation

still deplores

, “the

 only protection against the virus for teachers on Monday: the unfounded assertions of the Minister of Education, who continues to minimize the role of the school in the epidemic dynamic. As for the protocol to replace a contact case teacher at short notice, it cannot be put in place because the recruitment has failed miserably: it seems that few French people want to become teachers. One wonders why.

 "

Le Parisien

adds: “ 

in view of the epidemic curve, the reopening of schools is not straightforward.

The virus is still running.

Students and teachers contribute as much to its dissemination as the rest of society.

(…) But the executive is holding on.

(…) This decision responds to educational, psychological and economic considerations.

The question from this morning is to know,

points

Le Parisien, how to succeed, by limiting as much as possible the closings of classes, the list of absent teachers, rarely replaced, and the panic of parents.

 "

The Rambouillet attack revives the security debate

Also on the front page, “ 

a tribute will be paid this Monday in Rambouillet to Stéphanie, this police officer murdered on Friday in the premises of the city police station. The bereaved family will receive there a testimony of the strong emotion caused by this crime, the shock wave of which has repercussions far beyond the town,

notes

La Croix. The assassin targeted the police as an institution and it was a helpless state agent who paid the price. (…) Faced with this peril, the task of the authorities is difficult,

further points out the Catholic daily.

It is part of a long-term action involving intelligence, security forces and justice. The Minister of the Interior will present a bill on this subject on Wednesday. A fair balance must be sought between provisions making it possible to better prevent attacks and respect for individual freedoms, which is fundamental in a democracy

. "

For

Le Figaro

, this “ 

Rambouillet attack revives the debate on immigration

. "For the right-wing daily, it is clear:" It 

is a summary, brutal, revolting truth: if the murderer (entered France illegally in 2009) had been expelled from the national territory, Stéphanie would have spent the weekend with their children. The rest - official tears, chin blows, bill - is just bad drama. (...) Attack with a chopper in front of Charlie's premises, beheading of Samuel Paty, attack in the basilica of Nice, and now the blade of jihad in a police station: each time,

Le Figaro

recalls

, the killer had played our part. porous borders, a distorted asylum policy

. "

Le Figaro

 thus echoes the reactions of a large part of the right and the far right.

The Charente Libre is

indignant: it is about an “ 

indecent festival of political recoveries.

(…) The security concerns which followed the Rambouillet attack hardly increase their authors, supposed to keep the measure in the face of the complexity of a fight against terrorism of which they know the failures, but also the inevitably more discreet successes.

 "

Joe Biden for a fairer world

Finally,

Courrier Picard

takes its hat off to Joe Biden. “ 

At 78, 'sleeping Joe' gives us hope after four years of Trumpist populism.

"

Hope ecologically with his decision to return within the Paris agreement to fight against global warming. But also hope for a fairer global economic system, with this proposal for a

"

minimum corporate tax rate wherever they make their profits." (...) If other states follow suit,

points out the Picard daily

, we can dream of a tax system that would finally give governments the means to conduct public policies beneficial to their citizens and build a more equitable "world after"

.

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