The protocol currently in place in the establishments does not satisfy Stéphane Crochet who considers that “the school” needs measures which stabilize and calm “.
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Stéphane Crochet, the general secretary of the SE-Unsa teachers’ union, wished on Friday December 3 on franceinfo that the protocol against Covid-19 in force in schools “be strengthened and stabilized”. He thinks “more careful, when a positive case is found in a class, to suspend [la classe] for a period of at least 24 to 48 hours, to allow time for everyone to go and do tests and have a more global vision to know if we can allow negative students to come back “.
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The school has “need measures which stabilize, which reassure”, insists Stéphane Crochet. The protocol currently in place in establishments provides for “to suspend the reception of students when a case is found to be positive”, details the representative of SE-Unsa. “But the others can come back to class if they have a certificate saying they are negative, he explains. However, if in a seven day period there are three positive cases in the class, then the class closes. “
The teacher judges that this protocol causes “a lot of information management, back and forth with worried families”. This generates “a lot of misunderstandings, tensions”. According to him, employers of families “do not understand why the school is closing when the child has tested negative”. This “sum of pressures and tensions” raises fears “that the school does not hold”, warns the secretary general of SE-Unsa.
In addition to this situation “ordinary viruses” which cause “a certain number of patients among pupils and colleagues”, Stéphane Crochet alert. “We can see the lack of replacements that we denounced since the start of the school year. We do not have enough replacement teachers to come to the classes when they are open, but the teacher is sick.”
The SE-Unsa remains “very worried” in front of “the epidemic situation and the continuous increase in the number of cases” of contaminations identified in the pupils. So there is “a concern for the school from an organizational point of view”, adds Stéphane Crochet.