Nearly 12 million students find their way back to school on Friday, in a context of the second wave of coronavirus and general reconfinement.

With a major novelty in primary: the obligation to wear a mask from six years old.

A constraint that worries both parents and children.

This is the novelty of this new school year: primary school children will have to wear a mask at school from the age of six.

A rule imposed by the new health protocol put in place by the government to keep schools open, in full re-containment to fight against the second wave of coronavirus.

But this new constraint poses many questions and raises concerns among those first concerned, as among their parents.

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"They're not going to stop touching it, kidnapping it, maybe swapping it for each other"

Like many, Célia is skeptical.

"No, I do not believe it", assures this mother of a child of seven, who must therefore remain masked from 8 am to 4 pm.

"They're too small, they're not going to stop touching it, kidnapping it, maybe swapping it with the girlfriends. It's going to be a nest of germs, more than anything else."

Another problem, learning, when half of the face disappears behind a mask.

"There, my son is in first grade, he is learning to read and write, there are still a lot of new things," Hélène is moved.

"To add the mask on top of that, I hope that doesn't prevent them from learning peacefully."

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"We can't breathe too much, we can't talk too much"

Hélène's second son, Raphaël, 10, is also apprehensive about this comeback.

"It's going to be a bit hard, because I've already tried. We can't breathe too much, we can't speak too much," explains the student.

"It was super hard. And we asked to speak much louder. After that, if it can help me see my grandparents again, that will be good," he puts into perspective.

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Raphaël hopes to see his grandparents again before Christmas.

So despite the difficulty, the little boy should keep his mask in class.