COVID-19 Case at Rabat’s Descartes High School Prompts Teacher Quarantine and Remote Learning

The teacher in question "will be placed in quarantine for a minimum of 14 days and will teach her classes remotely for the benefit of her students, starting Monday, September 14," reassures the statement from the school principal. These students are also prohibited from accessing the school and "must be quarantined for a minimum of 8 days," adds the same source, specifying that it is mandatory to perform two PCR tests 8 days apart (the first on September 11 and another on September 19).

As soon as the principal informs that a mobile screening device will be set up inside the school from Monday.

The parents, dissatisfied, blame the choice of face-to-face teaching in the first place, which the school authorities justify by the high cost of e-learning. The school has "informed parents that it does not have sufficient resources to comply with government directives that primarily recommend distance learning," explains a parent.

The concern of the moment? How to trace the contact cases inside and outside the premises of this high school with around 3,000 students of all cycles, in addition to teachers and administrative and supervisory staff?

One certainty for now: despite everything, the school will not be closed or placed in quarantine, hammers Madame Najat Delpeyrat in her statement.

Although the case of the Descartes High School (the first large school establishment in Morocco) is a mission, there is no room for indifference at the Ministry of National Education. It is time for Saaïd Amzazi to make a clear choice for the current school year.