After three weeks of closure, schools will reopen on Monday.

To prevent contamination from rising again in schools, the government is banking on compulsory self-tests.

Classes will also be closed as soon as a case of Covid-19 appears.

But unions are asking for clarification.

After a week of home lessons and then two vacations, hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren are due to return to school on Monday.

With the same strict system as three weeks ago, which involves the closure of a class as soon as a case of Covid-19 appears.

This rule will also be extended to secondary school, when face-to-face lessons resume on May 3. 

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"Very few teachers vaccinated at the start of the school year"

A measure which "goes in the right direction", greets Ghislaine David, co-secretary general of SNUIPP-FSU, the first primary union, on Europe 1. But according to her, many questions still remain unresolved, such as the ventilation of classrooms or even the organization of the canteen. "There is nothing new on the protocol on this subject," she laments. Ghislaine David also notes a problem in the definition of "contact cases" at school. "When there is a positive case in a class, the adult is not considered as a contact case", she regrets for example.

Ghislaine David also believes that the vaccination of teachers is progressing too slowly: "we will have very few teachers vaccinated at the start of the Monday school year, because we have a majority of teachers who are under 55 years old. And those over 55. years have not always had the opportunity, since April 12, to be vaccinated because there is still a lack of available slots ", she still regrets.

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Two self-tests per week

For its part, the government wants to focus on self-tests.

From Monday, all teachers and childminders will receive two self-tests per week free of charge to be carried out at home.

Deliveries are being organized.

From May 10, teachers and high school students will in turn be given one self-test per week.

They will take place in high school, under the supervision of health personnel, mediators or volunteer teachers.

The great novelty of the device is the transition to half-gauge in college for fourth and third from May 3, and also for all high school students throughout the territory.

Under these conditions, the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer nevertheless decided to maintain the bac, therefore the grand oral and excess philosophy in June.

The patent is also maintained.