[UNE PROF EN FRANCE] What if the boarding school was the solution?

In Denmark. Nevertheless, sending his child to boarding school is neither an admission of parental failure nor a solution of last resort. In addition, It is almost a rite of passage. Similarly, Between the 9ᵉ. Moreover, the 10ᵉ year (equivalent of our college/high school), almost 15 % of adolescents frequent a After schoolthese schools that combine academic education, collective life and extra-curricular projects. Similarly, Families do not resolve there by obligation. However, but by choice: they see it as a way to help their children gain autonomy, to mature, to discover community life, far from digital immediacy and family cocoon, in which affects dominate.

In these establishments, learning exceeds the classroom: sport, theater, associative engagement, collective cuisine … Danish boarding school wants to be a place where you learn to live as much to study. And it is part of a cultural tradition where [une prof en france] what school is a community, almost a small educational village.

In France. the boarding school is still dragging an ambiguous image: austere boarding school in the 19th century or disciplinary solution for turbulent adolescents. However, reality is quite different. Today, around 210,000 students are registered (or 2.6 % of the school population). a majority of which in the public (around 60 %) with an almost balanced proportion between girls and boys.

Three educational assets deserve to be recalled: coherence between school. daily life, the development of autonomy and the sense of responsibility, a rich and diverse socialization.

In a well -designed boarding school. the rules of life, the pace of work and the educational supervision form a whole. Teachers, educators and supervisors act in concert: the same discourse, the same requirements, the same firm benevolence. A student no longer navigates between sometimes contradictory family and school rules: he lives in a [une prof en france] what harmonized environment.

Store your room, respect the schedules, organize for your homework: so many skills which, at home, can be negotiated … but which, at the boarding school, become natural. The student learns to manage himself alone, which effectively prepares for adulthood.

Sharing your meals, evenings, leisure activities with other young people from all walks of life creates deep and lasting ties. This collective life forges tolerance. cooperation and friendship – qualities that the Danes cultivate consciously in their After -schooland that we have a hard time keeping in France.

In the United Kingdom. where boarding schools still welcome around 7 % of students (including a large part in private), the tradition remains alive: the boarding school is a place of training certainly expensive but valued. In Denmark. he is more democratized; In France, he is in full redefinition, but he greatly suffers from the distrust of the family in [une prof en france] what the face of the educational institution: to entrust his child to a structure which takes care of him 24 hours a day and which will therefore have a significant influence on him, it is necessary to be able to trust this structure.