"We'll see tomorrow morning." As the gradual lifting of containment measures in France begins on Monday, "nearly 86%" of schools, according to the Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, are preparing to reopen their doors, some as early as Tuesday . "It was not easy, but I think we are ready. We will see tomorrow morning, moving from theory to practice", explains Julien Bardet, teacher and school director in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, member of SNUIPP-FSU Cantal, at the microphone of Europe 1 Monday morning.
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A "constrained" calendar
"Many things have been complicated," he points out, however. In his department, few cases of coronavirus have been detected, but the emergence of two foci of contamination in a so-called "green" area in recent days, particularly among the teaching team of a college in Vienne, have worried some parents student. Another difficulty is the "constrained calendar" on which the teaching team was forced to operate. "We received the first instructions on May 4, so we had four days to organize and prepare the premises," says Julien Bardet.
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The school director denounces the "pressures" received in neighboring schools coming from an administration "more in an accounting logic than health". "In our constituency, a third of the schools are closed because elected officials were afraid when the inspection sought to make them take more students than they could accommodate."