The new health protocol, which will come into force in schools, colleges and high schools, provides in particular, in addition to the end of the wearing of the mask, the resumption of contact sports, inside and outside.
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From March 14, a new health protocol (which will be posted on Friday March 11 on the ministry’s website) will come into force in schools, colleges and high schools. In particular, it will no longer be compulsory to wear the mask, but students and teachers who want to can keep it. Under these conditions, all unmasked children in a class will be contact cases if one of their classmates is positive. Same rule in elementary school, middle school and high school.
In schools, this has already been the case since the start of the week: contact case students do not have to isolate themselves, they do a single self-test on D + 2, whether they are vaccinated or not.
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In middle and high school, no change: unvaccinated contact cases will have to isolate themselves for seven days and carry out a PCR or antigen screening test before returning to class. Those who are vaccinated will remain in class and will have to self-test on D+2. In addition, the new health protocol provides for the resumption of contact sports, both indoors and outdoors. It also provides for the end of brewing limits by level or in the canteen.
The SNUIPP-FSU for elementary schools like the SNES-FSU for colleges and high schools are on the same wavelength: they welcome the end of the wearing of masks and the beginning of a return to normal, but fear that this relaxation will not leads to an explosion of contact cases. The lifting of student mixing bans is also likely to cause an increase in contact cases.
The question of vulnerable personnel also arises, teachers will want to keep the mask for example. But for the moment, the Ministry of National Education has not planned to provide them with FFP2 masks, the only ones to truly protect. The unions are also calling for more carbon dioxide sensors in schools, work to bring windows up to standard and thus better ventilate, as well as modernization of ventilation systems, with next winter already in sight.