a new school year with new health rules

Posted the 01/03/2022 11:51

Update the 01/03/2022 12:36

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For more than 12 million students, Monday January 3 marks the end of the holidays and the return to class. Back to school Covid-19 and with a new sanitary protocol.

For many students, PCR tests or antigenic will become a habit to go to class. It was not always a pleasant moment for them. More tests to limit class closures, that’s the goal of education national. For children under 12 years of age with contact, there is no need to isolate themselves. However, they will have to perform 3 tests in 4 days. PCR or antigen, the first day, then it will be necessary to certify on the honor to have carried out two self-tests to J+2 and J+4. For the unvaccinated, a 7-day isolation is still required.

Set up by the National Education, this reinforced protocol aims to avoid the closure of classes, but does not seem to be appreciated by the teachers’ unions. the SNES-FSU, the main teachers’ union filed a strike notice for the week of January 3. Sophie Vénétitay, professor of HIS and Deputy Secretary General of SNES-FSU explains thate, despite the alarmist speeches of Olivier Véran, Minister of Sanhas, and Jean-Michel Bleach, Minister of National Education, the protocol at college and high school has not really changed. The union wants the distribution of surgical masks for adults and a policy of massive tests.