On Tuesday, all schools in the Pink City reopened. But behind this 100% figure, there are disparities, some establishments that have still not been able to accommodate certain students, who will only be there for a few days by the beginning of July. Questioned by 20 Minutes , Marion Lalane-de-Laubadère, Assistant to Education, explains the reasons for these blockages and returns to what has been put in place.
Since June 2, 100% of schools in Toulouse are supposed to be reopened. Voices are rising to say that this rate could have been reached well before, as in Bordeaux since May 11. Why was this not the case here?
There are not many cities like Bordeaux where the schools all reopened on May 11. You could say we reopen 100% on May 11 by opening only one class per school. This is not the choice we made, we first wanted to experiment with the implementation of the health protocol for a few days and we made a choice of compliance with sanitary conditions. In many schools we also did not have 100% of the teaching staff, nor our staff whose schooling for children was not a priority. Today we have reopened all schools and all premises.
What changed between May 11 and Tuesday?
We have called on external service providers to apply the demanding health protocol. We hired 140 people in temporary employment, but also 100 temporary workers and two subcontracting cleaning companies. We are not far from the million euros of additional cost.
But some students will have been schooled by July less than five days. While the schools are all reopened ...
Each school has its organization, we as soon as National Education tells us "we reopen" an additional class we do. Now the children have to go to school, the latest official bulletin indicates that each child can return to school one day a week. If they don't lighten the protocol, it's complicated. Since May 25, we have opened four leisure centers for the free reception of children who are not admitted to school on certain days as part of the 2S2C device (sport-health-culture-civism), but this does not not replace the school. We are also in the process of considering welcoming children to museums, supervised by animators and under the responsibility of National Education.
This Friday, Sibeth Ndiaye, the spokesperson of the government, indicated that the communes overinterpreted the health protocol and slowed down the opening of schools. Is that your case?
We keep asking for protocol relief in schools. I am not saying that we have to do anything, there is no question of reducing it in terms of disinfecting the premises. But on the question of distancing the question arises. Children do what they want in the parks or after school. There, we are making life more complex and that of teachers. A circular issued in the official bulletin seems to say that there is no longer any question of limiting the number of students per class but that it depends on the size of the room used and social distancing.
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