The association of mayors of Île-de-France wrote Sunday to Emmanuel Macron asking him to postpone the date of reopening of the schools. "The preparation for the deconfinement is done in a calendar with forced march, while we do not yet have all the information to prepare the population, and that the directives are changeable", argue the 329 mayors signatories of the open letter to the president , published on the La Tribune website, among which is the PS mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo.
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"We, the mayors of Île-de-France, solemnly ask you to postpone the date of reopening of the schools with regard to the red classified departments and in particular of the Île-de-France to a date later than May 11, which will allow the strict application of an equally strict health protocol which is just beginning to be disseminated to cities, "write the mayors.
An "untenable and unrealistic" calendar
The councilors also ask the President of the Republic "that the State ensures that all health conditions are met" and "not to place on mayors the legal, political and moral responsibility for the reopening of schools", then that parliamentarians consider initiatives to better legally protect mayors.
They also ask him "to ask (his) government to clearly prioritize the children who can / will have to go back to school", that "sufficient financial means be conferred on the municipalities for" after-school care and " so that there are incomprehensible administrative logics in terms of equipment for educational personnel ".
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The calendar "is, in most of our municipalities, untenable and unrealistic", explain the councilors. "We learn, ten days before the date of reopening of the schools, that it would be up to the mayors to decide on the reopening of the schools, and to the parents to decide on the return towards the way of the classes of their children", and "that we do not Let us know that on May 7, on the eve of a three-day weekend preceding the start of the new school year, if our departments are officially classified in the red zone ", they develop. "All of this cannot be improvised overnight".
The mayors of Ile-de-France also believe that they do not understand "how it is possible to reconcile the objective of volunteering and to overcome social and territorial inequalities".