The day after the announcement of phase 2 of the deconfinement, the Minister of National Education at the microphone of France Info tackled the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo concerning his management of the reopening of schools. In the capital, many students have still not returned to class, raising fears of a multiplication of school dropouts. At the microphone of Europe 1 Friday, the counselor of Paris and elected LFI of the 20th district Danielle Simonnet, returned the ball in the camp of the government, denouncing contradictory injunctions and a lack of means to ensure health security.
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"We had to fight a lot," prevailed Jean-Michel Blanquer on France Info Friday morning. "Remember the petitions to prevent me from opening. Some communities said they would not open." Anne Hidalgo in particular is in his sights: "In Paris it is more difficult than elsewhere because there is not the mobilization of all municipal staff in many cases. Sometimes there is information given parents to recommend that they not send their children [to school]. "
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For Paris counselor Danielle Simonnet, these accusations are unfounded on the part of the "minister of the school cacophony". Recalling that a great vagueness had surrounded the reopening of schools, she denounces a government which, according to her, has discharged its responsibilities "on the communities and on the parents".
Asked about the low number of returns to classes in Parisian schools, Danielle Simonnet invoked an impossibility of ensuring health security in the premises: "We are in small rooms, old buildings [...] The recovery for all of the students is problematic. "
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She goes so far as to speak of "blackmail" against local communities: "When the communities refused to reopen all classes, as it was envisaged, the minister via the rectorates wanted to deny them the right to continue the the way schools welcomed the children of caregivers and all the professions who were forced to work, "she said. She now calls to work to ensure the best reception conditions for the return to school in September.