“We really have a protocol that adapts to the situation two years after the start of Covid-19”, greets Wednesday on franceinfo Guislaine David, co-secretary general and spokesperson for the teachers’ union SNUipp-FSU. Presented the day before to the unions, the protocol provides for the start of the 2022 school year three levels of measures that can be activated according to the health context.
This protocol provides a deadline for the implementation of the transition from one level to another: “We have an anticipation”, appreciates Guislaine David. “That is to say that we will not be able to decide on a level of the protocol and put it in place the next day in the schools, we will have ten days of adaptation, which we have always asked for”. In previous months, teachers’ unions had lamented “announcements in the press with implementation the next day”recalls the spokesperson for SNUipp-FSU. “And that posed a number of problems, especially last January“, she recalls.
“We can clearly see that there, we have a protocol which will not require for the teams, the directors and directors, an extraordinary administrative burden, with announcements to be made to children and parents, compared to what we have been able to know before”notes Guislaine David.
The teachers’ unions sat on Tuesday within the‘”partnership body”, which brings together the Ministries of Health and National Education to clarify the health strategy. “This body will meet again at the end of August to decide, depending on the situation of the epidemic, what will be put in place at the start of the school year”, specifies the co-secretary general of the SNUipp-FSU.
Guislaine David regrets, on the other hand, that the problem of shortage of substitute teachers has not been resolved. “There are no additional recruitments, including for contract workers,” said the SNUipp-FSU spokesperson. “We know that we will have classes without a teacher at the start of the school year”, she warns. “And then, we still haven’t settled the question of the educational and psychological consequences of the crisis for students, that is to say how we are going to catch up with two years of degraded education.”