Solène Delinger 2:23 p.m., January 3, 2022

While the Omicron variant strongly impacts the youngest, Jean-Michel Blanquer unveiled the "Parisien" the new protocol for the start of the school year.

Now, if a positive Covid case is detected in a class, all other students will have to take three tests in four days to stay in school.

A measure that puzzles teachers. 

The new health protocol is struggling to convince teachers.

Jean-Michel Blanquer unveiled on Sunday in

Paris 

the measures to be put in place this Monday in all classes.

Among them: if a positive Covid case is detected in a class, all the other students will have to take three tests in four days to stay in school. 

A "complicated" rule to apply

Invited on

Europe 1

this afternoon, Guislaine David, co-secretary general and spokesperson for the teachers' union SNUIPP-FSU, expressed his concern following the announcements of the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer.

"We have great fears about contagiousness and contamination within our schools," she confided to Romain Desarbres's microphone.

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In addition to being "complicated" to apply, this new rule could prove, according to her, totally ineffective.

"We are not on preventive tests but on reactive tests. So, that means that when we know that we already have a positive case in the class, then we will test on D-0, D + 2 then D + 4. But what will it be D + 3 D + 5? "Asks Guislaine David.

"We know that we will have contamination anyway because we will have children who will come back with a negative test. But they can still be positive," she worries. 

Keep the old protocol 

The teachers demanded a return to the old protocol, the one in force from April to December 2021. The rule was very simple: the classes closed if there was even one case of Covid and to isolate the students for seven days. "It seems to us to be the rule which makes it possible not to contaminate other students in the class and in the school. The new rule which no longer closes the classes showed in December that there was a lot of contamination", emphasizes Guislaine David. "It was better to stay with the old system. Because there, it will be a gas plant. We will have to systematically verify the certificates on honor," she laments. 

Guislaine David fears the contamination of teachers, who will not be replaced.

The spokesperson for SNUIPP-FSU points to a contradiction: the government is doing everything not to close the classes but "the classes will have to be closed if the teachers fall ill".