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“We are far from a social return”


A senior education adviser awaits the arrival of students in front of Simone-Veil college in Lamballe (Côtes-d’Armor) on May 18. VINCENT FEURAY FOR “THE WORLD

It was finally a fairly calm recovery that experienced on Monday, May 18, the principals of college who told the World their day. In any case, given the number of pupils received: the 185,000 pupils from 6e and 5e income sitting on the benches of some 4,000 establishments in the green zone have often represented, at the level of a college, only about fifty children to be cared for.

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In the establishment of 600 students headed by Laurent Estève in Labastide-Saint-Pierre (Tarn-et-Garonne), forty students returned. “Forty students in eleven rooms, I let you do the math … There was no crowd. “ No noise either (“A mask limits chatter!” “) and little movement: it is now the teachers who change the room instead of college students, “To limit contact”, explains the principal.

The “Calm in the corridors”, it is also what struck José Jorge, head of the biggest college of the Toulouse Academy, in Montauban: he reopened for 60 children, against 1,200 before confinement. The same is true of Audrey Chanonat, principal assistant of a college in La Rochelle: 49 students returned Monday morning, and as many in the afternoon, when, usually, 515 are in a hurry in the establishment. “The atmosphere is strange, she says. These children waited two months to find each other, and here they are deprived of hugs … It has nothing to do with a comeback! “

“Good students and less good”

Back to school is back to work. “Here, the objective is already to find a framework, a rhythm, a social bond”, argues Damien Dubreuil, principal of a college in Jarnac (Charente), which welcomed 48 students Monday morning, out of 430. Back to school, “It’s collective”, we hammer in the union ranks. However, at this stage, in order not to exceed the “health threshold” of 15 pupils per class, a minority of middle school students benefits from the recovery. Even with “rollovers”, as almost all establishments do.

What middle school students? The question is central: if the Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, has constantly defended the“Social issue” reopening for “The most disadvantaged students”, the children who answered present on Monday are not always “The highest priority”, we recognize within management teams.

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