Russia: students of the French high school in Moscow forced to distance
A school outing in Moscow.
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The French Lycée Alexandre Dumas in Moscow goes remote.
Initially scheduled for March 9, at the end of the holidays, the resumption of classes will only take place on the 15th, and behind your computer at least until the beginning of April, for the 1,250 students (from kindergarten to high school) of different nationalities. who attend school there.
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The teachers of the French Lycée Alexandre Dumas in Moscow have been asked by the French authorities to leave Russia.
If the parents of pupils who have returned to France are satisfied, those who cannot or do not want to leave - and this is the vast majority - do not understand this decision.
Back to school is in three days, but Natalia Boschat has no idea how it will go for these 10, 12 and 14 year old boys.
No link to connect, not even a schedule.
This Franco-Russian has a lot on her heart.
“
For 15 years, we have made every effort so that they can speak, know French history, etc.
I'm very sad, I was crying.
I'm not angry, I'm very sad, it's not the children's fault.
»
“Hostages of a political game”
Same feeling of injustice for Romain, whose son is seven years old.
After the Covid, the children will still be punished, he explains, while on the spot, nothing justifies closing the French high school.
“
'Distanciel' generally means two 40-minute sessions a day behind the screens.
It's not the same thing.
Children do not have to be victims of this situation.
I did not feel the slightest hostility towards me and I did not hear a story to that effect.
The security situation on site does not really justify this decision.
»
We are completely trapped in this situation.
Eric, parent of a student at the French school in Moscow
So that the children do not get depressed at home, as Romain says, some parents will try to organize group lessons.
More than 250 of them also wrote to the government as well as to Brigitte Macron a letter in which they deplore that their children are "
hostages of a political game
".
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