Drancy distributes tablets for its students from CP to CM2

Illustrative image of a classroom in an elementary school.

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• In one week, the 5,500 tablets purchased in May will have been distributed to 5,286 students in Drancy.

• “You had to be very responsive.

  The confinement has shown, and particularly in the 93, that with the digital divide many children have not had access to school continuity, ”commented on the town hall of Drancy, requested by

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• FCPE 93 denounces for its part a "territorial inequality"

A connected return to school.

Friday, the mayor of Drancy, Aude Lagarde (UDI) in the company of deputy Jean-Christophe Lagarde began to distribute the first tablets to schoolchildren in this commune of Seine-Saint-Denis.

Each child from CP to CM2 will indeed be equipped with a digital tablet loaded with educational content validated by the National Education.

"It is the first city in France to distribute in all its elementary schools a tablet for each student in school," we congratulate the city.

Total cost of the operation: 1.8 million euros.

In one week, the 5,500 tablets purchased in May will have been distributed to 20 schools and 218 classes, or to 5,286 students.

And this, to stem "school dropout".

"Many children did not have access to school continuity"

While during the period of confinement of the children had difficulty following the distance learning courses and that currently, in this particular re-entry due to the health context, the risk of class or school closures exists, the town hall considers that this tablet funding is needed.

“You had to be very responsive.

The confinement has shown, and particularly in the 93, that with the digital divide many children have not had access to school continuity, ”commented on the town hall of Drancy, requested by

Regarding this school dropout, in a district of Drancy which is in charge of 26 nursery and elementary schools, 132 students were "in digital absence", 242 students "in difficulty of distance education" and 180 students "lost to follow-up", according to the figures collected in June by the inspectors of National Education.

At the global level, two weeks ago, according to the figures of the rectorate of Créteil, around 4,000 students out of more than 200,000 children, had not yet found their way to school in Seine-Saint-Denis.

It was five times more than in previous seasons.

If the tablet makes it possible to ensure as much as possible “school continuity”, does it also pose several questions?

Is it effective for the youngest, especially in CP?

Isn't this a source of social inequality across the department?

"Big territorial inequality"

This “restrained” tablet has 79 applications for “all subjects and all levels”, adds one to the town hall.

For CP students, however, the system is a little different.

“It remains essential that these students in the course of learning to read and write, learn to form letters.

It is therefore the teachers who will decide when to give them so as not to influence learning ”, we conclude.

Note that from the next school year, in primary schools in Drancy, there will no longer be any paper books but a “digital binder” and the pupils will keep their tablets until the end of their primary schooling.

FCPE 93, for its part, is very skeptical.

“It's a positive step, but it's a shame that it's only organized at the local level.

We are faced with a big territorial inequality ", deplores to

, Alixe Rivière, co-president of the federation of parents of pupils FCPE 93. And to specify:" All the mayors of Seine-Saint-Denis should have spoken about it so that all the students in the department are equipped in the same way ”.

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