As France prepares to start letting public life resume after eight weeks under a coronavirus lockdown, many parents are deeply torn over a question without a clear or correct answer: Should I send my child back to school?
many parents are deeply torn over a question without a clear or correct answer: Should I send my child back to school?
Because of the slow start-up, as well as ongoing fears about COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, in hard-hit France, school attendance will not be compulsory right away. Parents and guardians may keep children at home, and teachers will provide lessons like they have during the nationwide lockdown.Students with parents who want or need to send them to school are not guaranteed places in the smaller classes and will be allowed to attend only if their school can accommodate them.
Cecile Bardin, whose two sons are 6 and 2, said she thinks it is too soon to put them back in their nursery and primary schools in Paris.“I am not reassured at the moment because it will be very difficult to keep safe distance at school, especially for the little ones, who will want to play together,” Bardin said.
Returning students will find their classrooms running differently. Teachers will wear masks and remind children to social distance from one another and to wash their hands several times a day.and teachers while visiting an elementary school in a town west of Paris last week. Macron said schools would reopen gradually because he wants “things done well.”
That’s the situation in Paris, where Ingrid Rousseau hoped to send the youngest of her two children, who is 6, back to school. She doesn’t know if her son will be allowed to go, even though both she and partner are working. Scientists are still split on the role that children play in transmitting the new coronavirus, which has infected more than 176,000 people in France, killing at least 26,300 of them, according to government figures.
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