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- On Twitter, a user is alarmed at an alleged restriction of freedom linked to the vaccination against Covid-19.
- “Here is a theater school which requires its students to be vaccinated for the start of the September 2021 school year! », She denounces, an administrative document in support.
- However, this concerns a Quebec establishment, which requires certain students in medical courses to have their vaccines up to date.
Will students wishing to follow certain courses soon have to be vaccinated against Covid-19 to be accepted by universities? While the perimeter of the health pass, which the government intends to deploy from June 9, worries many citizens and elected officials, on Twitter, some are alarmed about this supposed restriction which would be put in place in a few months.
“SCANDALOUS! Here is a theater school which requires its students to be vaccinated for the start of the September 2021 school year; they clearly indicate that they will refuse the files of students who cannot provide proof of vaccination! “, Denounces a tweet showing, as proof, a document listing the” specific conditions of admission “listed to a person admitted to the” theatrical interpretation “.
SCANDALOUS! Here is a theater school which requires its students to be vaccinated for the start of the September 2021 school year; they clearly indicate that they will refuse the files of students who cannot provide proof of vaccination! pic.twitter.com/Q0bCXG6mkF
– lola cohen (@ lolaweb71) May 4, 2021
In addition to holding a “high school diploma” and a “vocational studies diploma”, the establishment requires, “for certain programs”, to “provide proof that you have been vaccinated before the start of the program. trimester. “” Your registration will be refused if you cannot provide proof of compliance with these conditions, “he adds.
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If this document is authentic, it turns out to be misleading since it concerns an establishment located … in Quebec, and not in France.
These admission conditions apply to students of the General and Professional College (Cégep) of the city of Saint-Hyacinthe, a public educational institution where “the first level of education is provided. superior ”, according to the Quebec CEGEPs.
On its site, the Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe indicates well, for certain fields of study, such as “dental hygiene techniques”, that “the medical examination and vaccination are compulsory for the completion of the internships” and that “the health record must be checked and updated, s ‘there occurs. “Without any link with the anti-Covid-19 vaccination.
As a reminder, in France, certain vaccines are recommended and others compulsory for children, in particular against tetanus and diphtheria. But in practice, the State cannot oblige unwilling parents to have their child vaccinated, even if the latter may be refused access to the crèche or to any reception structure if he has not received the one of the eleven compulsory vaccines.
The High Authority for Health, for its part, estimated in the fall of 2020 that, “in the current context, vaccination against Covid-19 should not be compulsory, neither for the general population, nor for health professionals”.