Olivier Véran announced Thursday a reduction in the health protocol in schools, and in particular the end of the automatic closure of a class if a student tests positive.

For Guislaine David, president of SNUipp, the main primary union, this decision is incomprehensible.

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For parents of students, this sounds like good news.

Thursday, Olivier Véran announced a reduction in the health protocol in primary schools.

Main change: a class will no longer be closed automatically when a student tests positive for coronavirus.

Enough to limit closures and thus no longer inflict a headache for childcare.

But this statement is not necessarily well received by the unions.

"We are very worried about this attitude of the ministry and the government," declared on Europe 1 Guislaine David, president of SNUipp, the main union of school teachers.

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"We must not forget that children are brewed in the canteen, in the playgrounds"

"There is a virus circulating and we act as if it was not circulating", worries the unionist.

"In schools, we lighten the protocol. So we have the impression of walking on the head. Because it happens that in certain classes, when there is a positive case, if the rules of distancing do not have been implemented, and since children under 11 do not wear a mask, one can imagine that they are in contact all the time. "

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What bothers Guislaine David is that the coronavirus wins the whole school if the protocol is lightened.

"The precautions of the ARS and the health authorities were to put the class in isolation for seven days, to avoid contamination in other classes," she recalls.

"We must not forget that the children are stirred up in the canteen, that they have exchanges in the playgrounds and that they will inevitably contaminate other classes in the school."