“The teachers who were able to hear the Prime Minister this evening announce yet another reduction in protocol, while we are asking for greater health security in schools, will not be able to be satisfied”, said Monday, January 11 on franceinfo Guislaine David, co-secretary general, spokesperson for SNUipp-FSU, while the Prime Minister announced three measures to simplify the health protocol in force at school to fight against the progression of Covid-19.
Guislaine David denounces “the form” announcements by the head of government. “We are told of reductions in the protocol at 8 pm in the evening, applicable tomorrow (Tuesday) morning in schools without our having any information from our hierarchy on the application.” She claims not to have been “concerted”, while the unions have “demands and demands that have not been heard”. Guislaine David notes that “the more contamination we have, the more we lighten the protocol and the less we secure the school”. “We walk on the head, she adds. We really have the impression that we are above ground. We are outside the reality of school “. The spokesperson for SNUIpp-FSU also regrets that the government “does not respond to teachers and school staff to better protect them”, but do “what to respond to the strong demand for tests” and if necessary “unclog pharmacies and laboratories”.
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Consequence, according to her: “We relax drastically” the protocol, and we’re going “necessarily increase tenfold contamination in schools”. According to her, there will be no more “no tracing since the self-tests do not make it possible to trace” the results. “So we will no longer count the children who will test positive. So, this will mechanically lower the figures. But contamination is very real in our schools.”
Guislaine David believes that Jean Castex “did not address the teachers, he addressed the parents of the pupils”. The representative of SNUipp-FSU recalled that the teachers had “requested the closure from the first positive case to protect the contact cases of students”. However, students under 12, “not vaccinated, when they are in contact, risk being contaminated. They risk contaminating around them”. She also regrets that there is also “no message on personal protection” nor on the supply of surgical masks “strongly demanded. We are not sure to see them coming to schools before the end of January. Nothing on the FFP2 masks”. Guislaine David is worried: “The measures that are announced will facilitate the contamination.”
The SNUipp-FSU maintains the strike scheduled for Thursday which it says “will be extremely followed”. Teachers intend to show “the anger of the profession which feels really despised by all these successive announcements in the media. It is a modification of protocol that we can no longer even follow so much that changes”, adds Guislaine David.