Shiba said they were masked and dressed in black. How do you know they were young? Maybe you should contact the authorites with your inside info 
Just look at the pictures, eyes typically give away someone’s age as well as hands and clothes.
Honestly it’s not difficult
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Yeah, you’re right (as young people say) the eyes have it…
I wanted to get my daughter back from boarding school in the city, but students destroyed the buses, so there’s no service… She’s in lessons right now, but they’re all on tenterhooks as there were reports that one of the neighbouring schools were going to come along and attack the students there, with the threat of bringing knives. They’ve locked down her school. I can’t get her until this evening. I’m thinking of keeping her at home next week until the violence and tensions simmer down.
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I know a Lycée teacher, she has been saying for years now how what was a good job has turned bad. She teaches French, is in her mid-fifties, and usually joins the strikers.
The workload has increased inexorably, and the students are more problematic, even threatening. The conditions are unhealthy.
She says, many simply don’t read books. I’ve seen their scripts…
Whenever I went round to her house, she was always marking, marking, marking…and doing reports.
She had a heart attack, from stress her husband says. She went back to work very soon after though…haven’t seen them for a while.
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Apart from the subject that was me until I stopped last year to look after my parents.
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I live near a lycée. Should I be moving my car a safe(r) distance away?
Not a bad idea, as soon as there’s a bit of a manif, of whatever nature, you get troublemakers turning up. This is why most lycées have stopped the traditional event 100 days before the Bac where the Terminales (UVI, year 13) all dressed up in home-made themed costumes* and processed through town with an occasional bit of throwing flour about. Dodgy types came along pretending to be part of it and caused real damage, they were masked or otherwise disguised and throwing stones or spraying nasty substances.
*Some of them really wonderful, I’ll never forget a couple of boys dressed as Iroquois or Hurons paddling a canoe along the street (bicycles with strategic cardboard panels attached) fabulously well thought out and made. It’s a real shame it no longer happens because of these casseurs who probably never went near a lycée otherwise.
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The important thing is that no one gets hurt, especially @toryroo (and Remy). Fingers crossed that everything remains peaceful. 
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It was all go here in Aix. Lycée students exited their buildings only an hour after arriving and went to manifest at the téléphérique to Marseille. Another band of tweenagers occupied La Rotonde in a reenactment of the barricades. Somewhat outnumbered by police and emergency services, their chanting and the odd firework seemed in good spirit. (I really feel fireworks should be entirely banned from private hands but that’s a gunpowder phobia I have.)
I absolutely feel that the young persons have a valid complaint and this is a traditional method of proclaiming it. They do need renovated buildings and more teachers. I hope they get them.
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Nothing is charred in Chars. Less activity than normal near the lycee today.
It’s not just the Lycées that are like that, the colleges are much the same but younger pupils. It’s the whole system that is at fault with no investment in teaching and bringing the standards of qualifications to work in education down to a very poor standard.
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I had most classes growing up with 50. Even 52 or 54. Obviously it takes skills by teacher to manage that number. And when I took Economics in first year at Uni, the auditorium for the class had 600 people in it. I was stuck at the back and might as well have studied it remotely.
When I hear of today’s tiny class sizes in comparison, I think how lucky newer generations are.
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Yes better safe than sorry
This isn’t that uncommon in certain subjects, which lend themselves to that sort of teaching, usually because they don’t require specialist equipment. By contrast, some university music teaching necessarily requires a 1:1 staff student ratio.
Studio teaching in art and design is also one to one through the tutorial system. There are very low staff student ratios in studio subjects that are ‘balanced’ by lumping all the students together for art history or complementary studies. I’ve worked on both sides of this and know the former’s far easier - studio staff don’t take any work home.
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I was one of 70 in my 4th grade class with Sister Mary Vincent , an Irish Catholic nun. When we misbehaved it would provoke a rap on the knuckles or being told to kneel in place. Those were the days…
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That may be true in France; not in Canada. The issue for most teachers is that you can be fully qualified and experienced and it is STILL an enormously stressful undertaking.
I haven’t been a classroom teacher since two days before the birth of my son (now 13!) but I tutor for a living and teach English in the local school as a volunteer.
Despite my 30 years of experience, I was ready to pull my hair out when an international school (from Paris, 92 km away) came to do a field trip at my permaculture/rewilding project. From the minute they got off the bus, some of the kids (16-17) just wouldn’t shut up when I was presenting to the group- even though they had just had two hours to chat, after an hour getting to school. I asked politely, explained it was hard to focus, even suggested a bit later that they separate from each other. Nope. Disrespectful behaviour the whole two hours. And don’t some of you take this the wrong way but it was significantly more the French students rather than all other nationalities who were the issue. Someone else noticed this too.
So, something about French culture at the ‘top end’ as much as the ‘classe populaire’) is leading some students to be difficult and selfish. Many of them had been at this international school (English culture) most of their education so it’s not the school doing it.
There, that’s my deux centimes.
Glad to be out of the classroom.
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https://x.com/patrisouv76/status/2106049159090540754?s=46
Charming young man. Trying to take on an old man for protecting his wheelie bin…
What is the typical prison sentence in France for rioting?
Are France as hard line as the UK for people encouraging others on social media?
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Unless theres been some very recent dumbing-down, they still have to have at least a bachelors’ plus masters’ degree plus a year of training on the job and in the INSPE. My trainee teacher tutees have always been very committed, of a high calibre and successfully risen to the demands of the job.
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Attempted murder?
https://x.com/jon_delorraine/status/2105952982923641033?s=46
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