these days should open and schools. Not all and not everywhere. The influx of students, most likely, will not. First, high school students-students will be able to sit behind desks in June, and younger students of the College only selectively – in a little earlier. Well, and secondly, many parents for fear that children will pick up the virus from classmates, and intend to keep them at home until the holidays, which will begin in early July. Moreover, the local Ministry of education agrees: no obyazalovka not.
what in this Department insist, is to get this back “decrocher” – so in France called the Laggards, those who before, to put it mildly, did not Shine in the classroom. Now after two months of total quarantine their gap, as recently said the head of the teachers Union Sneeta-FO Pascal Vivier, become “catastrophic”. And there’s a very good reason, which name is the “digital divide”.
In principle it has previously existed between the children from families of middle and higher classes, and those who dwell in the many socially disadvantaged “of banle” – poor areas around Paris and other major cities. Local apartment complexes, where interspersed rebuilt in the 60-ies of the last century house-canisters, then upright, then lying on its side, settled in the mass of immigrants from North African and other third world countries. They have been seen as concrete symbols of social and economic divisions in the country, which still failed to overcome any of the successive governments.
Now to this inequality COVID-19 has added another digital, or rather, has aggravated it to such an extent that many local kids, no matter how diligent they are, the prospect of finding a decent place in life is just not real. And this is more than a good reason.
Says the girl from the Paris suburb Cartravel: “We are five brothers and sisters ranging in age from 9 to 15 years. All transferred to distant learning. The apartment is small, to each other interfere, and the computer one at all. Therefore, the elders tried to use a smartphone, but found that too difficult, and so just waved his hand…”
It is almost coeval 10-year-old Surya, in whose house in addition to mobile phone no other no gadgets, were among the “microserv” for the same reason. “The phone screen is small, so I with jobs not able to cope,” she shared in one report. And these stories great variety, which is confirmed also by many educators.
Maya, an elementary school teacher in the Eastern Paris suburb of Bagnolet, complains: “Of the 23 students in my class I was able to maintain contact with only seven”. Worse case her colleague Sarah from the least problematic of the town of Sarcelles (depar��ament Val-d”Oise): “Only 20 guys out of 150, I would continue to learn in those two months of quarantine”. According to her, the emergency situation caused by the “Kovalam”, did the lag guys almost irrevocably. Moreover, any help from dad and mom to children should not wait: they themselves are not at odds with either the grammar or other school disciplines.
moreover, to ensure that children are engaged, they can’t. It tells the Secretary of Metropolitan teachers Union Snuipp-FSU, Elizabeth Kutas, parents from those areas are occupied by “necessary” in the context of quarantine, but not very prestigious at the usual time works. They are all collectors of municipal waste, cashiers, messengers, nurses, porters the grocery store, the messengers return home in the evening very tired, and to lessons kids, of course, the hands do not reach. This is not to mention the fact that the technique they are, as a rule, also not at odds.
it seams in schools with a technical bias, which are mostly guys of their poor environment, and there are 700 thousand people. So according to the relevant teachers ‘ Union, including “microserv” this year may be 30 to 40 percent of the local kids. Nicolas Voisin, a teacher from Marseille, assessing psychological well-being of colleagues, described him as follows: “This defeat. Morality is zero.”
according to the Professor of the University of Lille, expert in the field of demography Natalie Susco, the conditions of which was for quarantine children of poor margins, “deepened the chasm between them and their peers”.
Education in France always has been a reliable ticket to a secure future. Today, however, exacerbated the digital divide divides the guys born in the “right families” and those who are at risk to become tomorrow’s new “Les Miserables”.
