700,000 third graders started the college certificate Monday morning. Initially planned last Thursday and Friday, the tests were postponed to Monday 1st and Tuesday, July 2nd, because of heat wave. It is actually less hot this Monday, but not everywhere! Thirteen departments are still vigilant orange, especially in the Rhone Valley. Europe 1 is thus going to take the temperature in Vauvert in Gard.
"The blinds were open, the warm air was coming in, it was unbearable"
Monday morning, the temperature was still bearable in the rooms for the test of French. But Tuesday afternoon, at the end of the test of mathematics, it is students with red cheeks, perspiring forehead and wet hair that we found. "Side heat, it was horrible," says a student, "the blinds were open, hot air entered, it was unbearable".
The number of students per limited class
A device had been set up Monday morning to reduce the effects of heat. The 183 college students were installed in the shaded wing of the building. Inside the rooms, no air conditioners but a fan. "It was torture," says another student, "one fan for the whole class is too little." The number of students had been limited to 20 per class, but obviously it was not enough to forget the blazing sun. And Tuesday, for the last day of the race, 36 degrees are expected ...