“This reduction in health protocol is welcome, we aspire to serenity”, said Monday, February 21 on franceinfo Florence Comte, spokesperson for the S2DÉ (Syndicate of School Principals) principal of an elementary school in Puget-Ville in the Var. Zone B (academies of Aix-Marseille, Amiens, Caen, Lille, Nancy-Metz, Nantes, Nice, Orléans-Tours, Reims, Rennes, Rouen and Strasbourg) is the first to apply the reduction in the health protocol imposed by the Covid-19 epidemic from this Monday, that is to say the end of the mask at recess.
franceinfo: Are you satisfied with this relief?
Florence Count: This relaxation of the protocol is welcome, we aspire children, families, teachers and directors to a serenity that we have not had for several months. So, indeed, this relief is welcome. The end of the certificates on honor is scheduled from today for the schools in zone B which resume this morning, so it will be simpler, even if we will always have to provide a certificate for the parents to recover their self-tests.
Do you feel heard since the January strike?
Yes, we felt differences. The protocol was modified twice, once very little and this time a little more. We had an email both times before the announcement to the media. So, we feel more considered. The government understood the flaws there had been in terms of communication. We appreciate.
What does this change for you?
This does not change everything but we have time to organize ourselves, we discover more about the protocol the night before. Parents can be notified of changes. Despite everything, there is a growing exhaustion of teachers and directors. We miss this financial recognition for having spent all these hours, Wednesdays, weekends, evenings managing the Covid. We are waiting to see how it will go, but the fact of having recovered the surgical masks two years after the start of the crisis, the new form of communication, is the least of things but that does not make us forget the worries. of means.
What really needs to change?
We really want to be a teacher and director and only manage the Covid. We want to find serenity, to teach our students things, which we couldn’t do in January and February because the classes were empty. We want to rediscover the pleasure of coming to work, so that students can return to school with peace of mind and that relations with parents are less strained.