By Angela Charlton / The Associated Press
PARIS – A mother and her 3 children scanned school supplies at a supermarket in Paris, taking out multicolored pens, impeccable notebooks and many masks. Despite the resurgence of coronavirus infections, similar scenes are taking place across Europe at the start of a new school year.
With viruses or viruses, the European government is determined to return young people to the classroom, reduce the learning gap between those who have and those who do not have to dig the lockdown, and get their parents back to work.
Faced with an accumulation of virus cases, authorities in France, the United Kingdom, and Spain imposed regulations on masks, hired more teachers and built new offices and classrooms.
While the saga of reentry to the United States has been politicized and chaotic, with a hodgepodge of fast-paced regulations and a backlash against President Donald Trump’s insistence on reopening, European governments have faced less uproar. .
And even though the virus has invaded the study rooms in recent days from Berlin to Seoul, and some teachers and parents warn that their schools are not prepared, European leaders left, right and center are sending an unusually consistent message: even in a pandemic, young people are better off in the classroom.
The French prime minister promised Wednesday to “do everything” for others to return to school and work. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called the reopening of schools a “moral duty,” and his government has even threatened to fine parents who stay Young at home. Italy’s fitness minister closed nightclubs this month with one purpose in mind: “reopen schools in September safely. “
Both father and teacher Mathieu Maillard has reason to fear before the Frenchman reopens on Tuesday. The number of viral infections with 100,000 inhabitants quintup multiplied in France last month.
How will your 5-year-old stay away from her friends she’s so excited to see for the first time in six months? How will you achieve acceptance as true among your best students at the school, from one of the most difficult neighborhoods in Marseille? , if you have to control the use of your masks?
But in general, Maillard thinks it’s time to go back. The school “must restart at some point,” he says. There is a threat to fitness, but the threat that children will not go to school is even greater. “
During the confinement, he said, some academics never joined his online French literature courses; some had no computers, only phones that they used to send blurry images of handwritten works.
“Our Array scholars want school,” he said. For those who grow up in an environment plagued by violence and drugs, the school “is a position where they can breathe. “
Unlike the United States, many Europeans opened at the end of the last quarter, offering courses for the fall.
Measurements in position come with handwashing stations, one-way corridors, stepped exits and continuous lunch schedules. Some regions offer loose laptops in case of new locks. Many countries require masks at school, but regulations vary over where to wear them. because of how old.
In south-east London, Mark Davis, the father of three, is eagerly awaiting the reopening of schools in early September, but is disappointed by what will happen to a new wave of viruses.
“Everyone is fighting for it [back to school], but it’s not smart to expect the best,” he said. “Plans want to be put into practice. “
So far, the government says schools will close as a last resort, but parents say the government’s message is neither transparent nor consistent.
Most of the UK’s 11 million academics haven’t noticed the chic since March, and reopening schools is the sensible thing on the political agenda. There are 41,515 deaths from the virus in Britain, according to the death toll in Europe, and the Johnson government. It has been widely criticized for its handling of the pandemic.
Some European schools are a hybrid educational year, with physical courses and others online, however, at most, they point to full face-to-face courses.
This is in line with the rules of global organizations such as Unicef, which said Thursday that at least a third of the world’s school-age children do not have access to remote learning virus closures. He warned that “the repercussions can be felt in economies and societies in the coming decades. “
Medical experts say the threat to open schools about the extent of Covid-19 infections in the network and the protective measures taken.
Evidence suggests that young people transmit the disease very fluently, while young people 10 years of age and older can transmit as easily as adults, but experts say more conclusive evidence is needed and, although young people appear less likely to be inflamed than adults, serious cases and deaths have occurred.
Amid a new wave of unforeseen infections in the hardest-hit Spain, officials are striving to adapt plans to reopen schools on September 4. Officials can mingle, but with strangers.
But teachers’ unions are reporting investment shortages and have action starting next week.
Italy, Europe’s main virus focus, is hiring another 40,000 transitory teachers and ordering more offices, but some will not be in a position until October, and many parents and teachers do not know exactly how it will work when maximum schools reopen on 14 September. They wonder how overcrowded and ruined schools can provide a distance of one meter (three feet) between students and smaller classes.
“They are above their heads,” said Cristina Tedesco, a representative of parents for a higher school of elegance in the province of Verona.
Germany can serve as an uplifting narrative or for its neighbors.
At least 41 of Berlin’s 825 schools reported cases of viruses when the categories resumed this month and thousands of academics were quarantined across the country, but Germany made the decision not to close schools again, so it sends academics or categories to quarantine.
Schools remained closed in many countries in Africa, Latin America and some of the most populous countries in the world, as well as India and Bangladesh. In the United States, some school districts offer a combination of in-person and online learning to help social distance. start with online courses only.
Parents and teachers aren’t the only ones who don’t have an easy voice when schools reopen. Denmark’s second-largest city, Aarhus, sent all of the school’s top academics home after an outbreak of virus cases, but the teens backed up, saying they weren’t informed at best online.
As they protested on Monday, they had symptoms that said, “Just to go to school. “
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