The parents of students are completely confused, as much as the teachers, in the face of the incessant changes in the health protocol in schools, against the Covid-19. Prime Minister Jean Castex, however, announced an easing on Monday evening. Now, if there is a positive case in a class, self-tests will suffice for contact cases, with a certificate on the honor of the parents.
The problem is that we now have to find these self-tests. At the Cotonat pharmacy, it’s the same demand every day, explains Titouan, student-pharmacist: “especially on the phone, several dozen calls“. Lots of requests, but no more self-tests!” We don’t have any more! “Breathes the young man.”The last order received was a week and a half ago. A hundred self-tests, and it all started in one day “.
While now each child in contact is supposed to be entitled to three free self-tests, it is the puzzle to find them. And it is even more difficult for Flavie, five children, met at the end of the Patte d’Oie nursery school. With two children in strollers, two on bicycles, and one on foot.
Lost parents, pharmacists too
The mother goes around the neighborhood pharmacies. That afternoon, she pushed open the door of two pharmacies. The first had difficulty giving these self-tests, and the second: “I had to fill out four papers, and the pharmacist was overwhelmed, he no longer knew himself what to do“.
It makes guilis in the nose
And when you find them, you have to test the children … who are often reluctant. Except Owen, Flavie’s five-and-a-half-year-old son. With his bowl cut and blue eyes, he is perhaps the least unhappy in history: “Because I like ! It’s gumming up my nose … It’s to find out if I have the Covid!“
For the moment, all is well, no Covid in the family sphere. But for the teachers, everything is bad. They are called to strike this Thursday, January 13. And the movement promises to be very followed: 75% of strikers and half of schools closed, provides SnuiPP-FSU, the first union in elementary school.