more than 6,000 students tested positive every day in schools in Nord and Pas-de-Calais according to the Rectorate
According to the Rectorate, 6% of classes are closed in schools in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais due to Covid-19. If the number of cases continues to grow, the increase is much slower than at the start of the school year in early January 2020.
In a press conference on Wednesday morning, the Rectorate of Lille returned to the latest figures for the epidemic in schools. The number of positive cases is still increasing, but more slowly, 3 weeks after the start of the new school year.
Every day, more than 6,000 students test positive in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais regions, according to the Rectorate. That is 0.8% of schoolchildren. 6% of classes in total are closed in the primary. Figures that describe the Nord and Pas-de-Calais in the national average.
Very questionable figures according to the SNUIPP, the unitary national union of teachers, and its northern representative, Alain Talleu. “First because to close a class today, you need a lot of students with Covid”, reveals this union delegate. “There are classes with eight to nine cases of sick children who do not ferment. And it’s assumed!”.
“In addition, students who are positive for the first time no longer have to be tested for two months”, explains Alain Talleu. The union representative knows what he is talking about. His son had the Covid in early December, with the Delta variant. Since then, the child no longer takes a self-test, even when other students in his class fall ill. His father even wonders if he hasn’t fallen ill again, with the new omicron variant. “Certificates are useless”, says Alain Talleu. “We know that the virus circulates a lot in all schools. In addition, many directors have given up reporting positive cases in their establishment to the Rectorate”. What to wonder about the official figures of the rectorate, would they be below reality and to what extent?
Promised by Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer, the surgical masks have almost completely been delivered to school teachers, the FFP2 masks are still being deployed. The Rectorate encourages establishments to equip themselves with CO2 sensors. For the moment, only around thirty files from schools seeking funding for these schemes have been processed. If 100% of high schools in the region have them, in colleges, the situation is more mixed. With 100% of satisfactory colleges in the North against only 4% in Pas-de-Calais. 12% of schools have at least 1.