Via L'Express de Madagascar: Back to School. Edited excerpt from the Google translation and then a comment:
The holidays are over. The start of the school year defined by the Ministry of National Education has arrived.
Long awaited by parents, back to school promises to be a relief for parents despite the epidemic of the plague.
"We are following the guidelines of the ministry and we think that the leaders are doing a good cause because even if children can catch the disease at school, we prefer our children to be there instead of hanging out everywhere in the school," says Bakolitiana Manitrarivony, a mother.
School closures are a politically attractive option in any serious disease outbreak, but they defeat their purpose if the kids then "hang out everywhere," swapping gossip and germs just as they do in school.
