Two weeks before the start of the school year on May 11, mayors and school directors are busy finding logistical solutions and ensuring good hygiene conditions for students and teachers, pending a clear doctrine dictated by the government. 

Will students and teachers have to wear masks? How to organize the passage to the refectory? How to ensure compliance with barrier gestures and sanitary distances? Two weeks before the start of the school year on May 11, mayors and directors of establishments are busy finding logistical solutions and ensuring good hygiene conditions in the face of the coronavirus epidemic.

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It will first be necessary to adapt to the size of the corridors, the configuration of the classes, the space in the canteen ... In Brest, for example, the education assistant, Emilie Kuchel, is looking for solutions so that students can wash their hands without jostling. "We imagined putting water points outside, five or six sinks aligned as in festivals," she explains to the microphone of Europe 1. 

Visors rather than masks? 

One of the biggest files is that of the canteen. Everyone has their own solution: split tables, elimination of the self, picnics in the courtyard, or even packed lunches prepared by the parents.

Another thorny point: that of masks. In the village of Bénaménil, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, the mayor, Bruno Minutiello asked a local company to make visors for the 80 schoolchildren. According to him, they are more practical than masks for children.

"These are very light polypropylene visors. They will stay in school and will be disinfected by municipal employees," he said. The most difficult will undoubtedly be to imagine a playground with a meter difference between the students ...