Question 38799 — children

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Mr. Yves Daniel draws the attention of the Minister of National Education, Youth and Sports to the repercussions of wearing masks by children in schools in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus. Following the publication of Decree No. 2020-1310 of October 29, 2020, the mask became compulsory from the age of 6 in schools. This rule does not apply to child victims of specific pathologies as well as those with a certificate issued by their attending physician. As soon as it came into force on November 2, 2020, this measure raised real concerns from many parents but also from professionals (doctors and teachers). These concerns mainly relate to the psychological consequences but also in terms of learning. According to feedback of teachers' experiences, this impacts their way of teaching and communication between teachers and students is undeniably altered. Indeed, with the mask, certain sounds are difficult to perceive by children and, when it comes to learning new words or a foreign language, the task is even more complex. Furthermore, some doctors question the impact of such a measure on the development cognitive and cerebral of the child. From a theoretical point of view, managing a mask results in an additional constraint drawing on limited attentional resources. Maintaining attention, while being deprived of half of the facial information and only having access to a filtered voice, also requires drawing on these limited attentional resources. For a child, expressing themselves through a mask is also a constraint extra to engage and participate in class life. Also, in the same way that a study was carried out on the impact on children of the closure of schools after the first confinement, he asked if an impact study could be carried out on the usefulness of wearing masks for children by taking into account both the benefits and the risks. Furthermore, he wishes to ask whether the Government intends to study the impact of these protocols on the mental and physical health of children.

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