Guest of Europe 1, Tuesday evening, the UDI mayor of Sceaux Philippe Laurent salutes the pragmatism adopted by Edouard Philippe on the question of schools during his presentation of the deconfinement plan. 

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Édouard Philippe announced it on Tuesday afternoon when he presented the population deconfinement plan: the return to normal will be extremely slow in the school system. Kindergartens and primary schools will reopen very gradually from May 11 on a voluntary basis, before middle schools, while high schools will remain closed at least until the end of May. On Europe 1, Tuesday evening, Philippe Laurent, the mayor UDI of Sceaux, in the Hauts-de-Seine, welcomed the pragmatism praised by the Prime Minister.

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"I remember a lot of pragmatism and it suits me", explains Philippe Laurent at the microphone Europe 1 of Nathalie Lévy. "The idea of ​​making a point and resuming decisions again from June 2 seems to me very well." On June 2, a decision will also have been made on the high schools. Closed, they could reopen in June, starting with vocational high schools.  

The question of volunteering "not very clear"

"The Prime Minister was ultimately less precise than the Minister of National Education, and it is a good thing," said the mayor UDI of the Ile-de-France commune of 20,000 inhabitants. This time, the calendar was not detailed according to the classes, hypothesis that Jean-Michel Blanquer had mentioned last week. "The question of volunteering is not very clear, of teachers, of children, but this vagueness is not that bad."

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From now on, Philippe Laurent calls for local management of deconfinement at the school level: "We, mayors, we are able to build a deconfinement plan on the basis of these principles with National Education", he advocates . "That the mayors present it to the prefect in the course of next week, who will validate or not the plan according to what he can estimate. We must overturn the system: that the mayor be at the initiative with Education national and that it develops its plan of deconfinement itself! ", he concludes.