Through Margaux Thokagevistk
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End mars 2021, the president of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, had announced targeted vaccination campaigns from mid-April for professions said to be at risk because “exposed”. Among these professions: teachers.
But since, the blur settled down with conflicting statements from members of the government.
Announcement effects without concrete translation
And while many professors and teachers hoped to receive a first dose by the start of the Easter holidays, this Monday, April 26, 2021, it will not be.
AT Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), the education unions criticize the announcement effects that weigh heavily on the morale of the troops.
Whether teachers or the rest of the population, appointments are made by age group, period. For a targeted vaccination of the profession, it is now a question of mid-June. This is obviously not good news since we have been asking for weeks the establishment of a precise schedule for the vaccination coverage to be effective, namely 14 weeks (for both doses). There is therefore a real urgency for the entire teaching staff to be vaccinated by the start of the September school year. ”
The Haute-Garonne has approximately 15,000 teachers, first and second degree combined.
“On the whole of the Academy, we are around 30,000 people, with an average age of 42 years. So if the executive does not declare the profession as one of the priority audiences, professors and teachers are not ready to receive their injections! “
A feeling of abandonment
What to fuel the exasperation in the ranks of teachers who have the feeling “To have been released” by their responsible minister Jean-Michel Blanquer.
The virus circulates in schools and in society. Traffic “even intensified during the month of March with more and more children infected with Covid-19, which pushed the government to close schools. We have also seen a drop in the rate since. incidence of 30% among 10-19 year olds “.
And while kindergarten and primary school students will return to school on Monday April 26, 2021, and May 3 for middle school and high school students, Pierre Priouret denounces “A glaring lack of preparation” and “A lack of visibility” for the next ten weeks of classes.
April 26, a back-to-school season under pressure
Same muffled anger on the side of SNUipp-FSU 31, the majority union in the first degree.
If the teachers say to themselves “Unfortunately accustomed to government reversals”, they also fear the return to school on April 26.
“In the department, there are between 30 and 70 classes without a teacher. Replacements are done in a trickle, consequence: there is a mixing of students and we end up with overcrowded classes, which is not Covid compatible”.
To defuse this situation and prepare as best as possible for this re-entry, theinter-union requested an emergency meeting with the Ministry of Education.
A online petition was even launched by SNUipp and FSU, trade unions and associations Sgen-CFDT, CGT Educ’Action, FCPE, SUD Education, UNSA Education, SNALC and FEP-CFDT.
An online petition
In this petition, the unions list security conditions schools and educational establishments.
Namely: additional human resources, improved testing policy, equipment of premises with CO2 detectors, supply of surgical masks and of course, vaccination of volunteer staff.
“We also aski the closure of classes from the first case of Covid detected to break the chains of contamination. To do this, we must strengthen screening campaigns, ”insists Pierre Priouret. “In Austria, pupils are tested twice a week. Since November, we have reached 20,000 tests for 240,000 students. It’s not enough “.
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