France teachers return to schools with safety masks and one-way lanes in classrooms making a mockery of UK union demands
TEACHERS and pupils have safely returned to classrooms in France - making a mockery of British unions trying to block schools reopening here.
Emmanuel Macron's government agreed to reopen classrooms after France's militant union barons warned children must not be the "collateral victims" of the Covid-19 pandemic.with the government over plans to allow some year groups to return on June 1.including a ban on marking., and children will be harmed more by missing out on critical stages of development.
Seventy schools were closed to stop further infection, including seven in the northern town of Roubaix where just one boy was infected. The World Health Organization’s chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan has insisted: “There have not been big outbreaks in schools.”A test in Iceland found none of 848 under-10s tested positive.
A recent German study of almost 4,000 coronavirus patients found that “children may be as infectious as adults”. It advised against “unlimited reopening of schools”. Early research from Denmark and Norway shows reopening schools has not triggered a spike in the disease.
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