The Snuipp-FSU, the first primary teachers’ union,called a strike on January 13th. He denounces “an indescribable mess” in schools and calls for “conditions of a secure school under Omicron”. The current anti-Covid protocol indicates that if a case is detected in a class, your child must be tested three times a week. These rules were relaxed since Thursday, since there is no need to start the process again if another student tests positive within the next seven days.
A puzzle for parents
“It’s difficult, we get tangled up in our brushes”, comments Vine, a CE2 student from the Saint-Aubain district. Since this Wednesday, as there is a case in his class he has to test himself every two days before breakfast to go to school, with a self-test “which hurts very, very much”. A puzzle for his mother Anne too, who had to take a day off work to pick him up and do a first test in the pharmacy, in order to receive the free self-tests, as provided for in the new rule.
Marion also judges this protocol “very complicated”, with her daughter’s teachers who sometimes have to to be absent one day to be tested. “The teachings are getting very disjointed”, deplores this employee of the diocese. Pierre also considers that it is logistically difficult with his children, but for him these rules are better than confinement, who would create “Too strong educational inequalities between the different families”.
“The rush” all day in pharmacies
New protocol relies heavily on testing and in pharmacies “it’s the rush in the morning and the afternoon”, indicates Philippe Vergnes, pharmacist in Muret in the south of Toulouse and president of the union of pharmacists of Haute-Garonne. “We cannot answer all phone calls, attendance has increased by 30%”, he specifies. “It would perhaps be necessary that the self-tests are supported and distributed by the National Education, otherwise we will not succeed”, he suggests.