Many schools could remain closed on Thursday. Several unions are calling on teachers to strike. They denounce “an indescribable mess”, due to the new health protocol imposed in the establishments, almost the 50th since the start of the pandemic!
School principals at their wit’s end
It is true that for almost two years, the teaching world has been put to the test. And especially, school principals who spend their time applying, modifying and adapting the different protocols. As a result, most of the directors that France Bleu Touraine contacted are exhausted.
We have to watch BFM TV to get information, it’s scandalous! – A school principal
The director of a school in the agglomeration confides it to us. “I’m ashamed. Last Wednesday, just two and a half days after the start of the school year, I was already exhausted.” Exhausted by all the administrative management of the various protocols. For weeks now, she has had to warn families of a positive case in a classroom, calling them until late at night so they don’t break their teeth the next day at a closed gate. It must also collect the test results, then the certificates, weekends and Wednesdays included. This mechanism, she repeated it three times in a week. Not to mention what she considers contempt. For two years she has been lambasting, “we have to watch BFM TV to get information, it’s scandalous!”
Physical and moral fatigue
A feeling that many of his colleagues share. They speak of physical fatigue, of course, but above all moral. Another director of Indre-et-Loire, she shares her bitterness. She worries about children, a sacrificed generation. At the moment, the classes are never full, so learning cannot be done properly. The gaps will widen, she regrets. “We spend more time managing the administration, rather than teaching.”
The last straw, abounds another director, “It was last Thursday, when we learned that we were being taken out of priority professions”. Clearly, now, if the child of a teacher sees his class close, he cannot be taken care of in the same way as the children of firefighters or caregivers, which risks further accentuating the number of closures. classes.