would fade to desire a downtown high school

They are similar to all girls of France. Jean slim, ballerinas and studied pouts, high school girls, in small clusters, urge to classrooms. It is 8: 55 a.m., a new week of classes began high school general technological and professional Robert-Doisneau of Corbeil-Essonnes, about 30 km southeast of Paris. In this month of may where successive Fridays nonworking, it floats as a perfume of vacations in the Hall of permanence and the deserted corridors. Students erode in the Sun. It laughs, it bragging, to exchange SMS messages. Scenes classical high school girls who seem almost incongruous to Robert-Doisneau, both the building invites to the relaxing. In these two huge bars of concrete, stuck between the 7, the commercial area and the city of the Tarterêts national, daily transit 3,000 high school students and teachers. Ironically, this "the most ugly Department" high school, the admission of its principal, Geneviève Piniau, became one of the most attractive of the Academy. There are almost two times more candidates than seats. The recipe for success A good dose of educational innovation, a daily vigilance and "a little courage to challenge patterns", dixit Ms the headmaster. While Richard Descoings today give Nicolas Sarkozy his report on the reform of secondary schools, diving in an atypical establishment.

Monday, 3: 15 pm.

Office of education.

"Me sieur Baratier, I can choose my dissertation on the environment for the Sciences po folder." Fanny is an interrogative head in the Office of education (CPE). Since September, the high school offered an incredible luxury: specially affect a teacher at her school projects. Doisneau is a "cumulard". Concentrated social and educational difficulties, it is of all devices: sensitive area, area violence, educational priority area. Voluntarist, he grabbed all existing programmes shamelessly: operation "why not me" with schools, tutoring, high school of trades. Its list of partners (Sciences po, Mines, Polytechnique...) would fade to desire a downtown high school. This thirst for projects ensures coquet grants mattress and a solid reputation. Doisneau escape the nightmare of the high schools in suburbs: the relaxation of the school map did not escape the good students or children of the middle classes. "He suffered leseffets of the mass, but, with its range of courses, he avoided the ghetto effect" should be the trade unionist (SNES) André Maniscalco, high school for thirty-five years. Remains the most difficult: pushing the students the most modest, prone to self-censorship, pathways of excellence. "Stop with the image of young people who burn garbage!". "There are nuggets in the quarters, we must be demanding, not unwashed," insists Geneviève Piniau. A very rooted belief in the committed headmaster. But non-obvious as students themselves are struggling to project to farther afield than the tray or close to the city. This year, the full prépa Sciences po is less competitors, while the BTS of high school and the University of Evry show. Here, more that also guide is a mission critical, sensitive: for some families, the school remains a foreign world. "A father who I had proudly announce that her daughter had succeeded Sciences po told me that he would have preferred that either his son", remembers Geneviève Piniau, regret in the voice.

17 hours. "Room lobby.

Unemployed, students as teaching assistants are revising their partial while hypothetical candidates for academic support. This winter, swear, there yet nearly 100 students in the "room lobby. Five years, high school has made school support his weapon of choice against failure. Its arsenal is bloated: evening studies provided by teachers paid , scientific modules, vacation courses, "contract custom success" for students of a second in difficulty... The rate of repeaters has been divided by two. "We have not waited Darcos secondary reform", fun Geneviève Piniau. "Force of see on the ballot"does not work in it", I eventually convene two students. The first taught me that if she returned home, she had to deal with its sixteen brothers and sisters. The second, that there was no tables or chairs in it. But tables, this is not what is missing here! "Today, room, open until 19: 00, also serves as a refuge to high school girls to the uproar of the city.

Tuesday, 9: 30 am.

Office of the principal.

Coffee, cakes. In the Office of the principal, for the weekly meeting of the SCE, the mood is good child, but the order

They are similar to all girls of France. Jean slim, ballerinas and studied pouts, high school girls, in small clusters, urge to classrooms. It is 8: 55 a.m., a new week of classes began high school general technological and professional Robert-Doisneau of Corbeil-Essonnes, about 30 km southeast of Paris. In this month of may where successive Fridays nonworking, it floats as a perfume of vacations in the Hall of permanence and the deserted corridors. Students erode in the Sun. It laughs, it bragging, to exchange SMS messages. Scenes classical high school girls who seem almost incongruous to Robert-Doisneau, both the building invites to the relaxing. In these two huge bars of concrete, stuck between the 7, the commercial area and the city of the Tarterêts national, daily transit 3,000 high school students and teachers. Ironically, this "the most ugly Department" high school, the admission of its principal, Geneviève Piniau, became one of the most attractive of the Academy. There are almost two times more candidates than seats. The recipe for success A good dose of educational innovation, a daily vigilance and "a little courage to challenge patterns", dixit Ms the headmaster. While Richard Descoings today give Nicolas Sarkozy his report on the reform of secondary schools, diving in an atypical establishment.

Monday, 3: 15 pm.

Office of education.

"Me sieur Baratier, I can choose my dissertation on the environment for the Sciences po folder." Fanny is an interrogative head in the Office of education (CPE). Since September, the high school offered an incredible luxury: specially affect a teacher at her school projects. Doisneau is a "cumulard". Concentrated social and educational difficulties, it is of all devices: sensitive area, area violence, educational priority area. Voluntarist, he grabbed all existing programmes shamelessly: operation "why not me" with schools, tutoring, high school of trades. Its list of partners (Sciences po, Mines, Polytechnique...) would fade to desire a downtown high school. This thirst for projects ensures coquet grants mattress and a solid reputation. Doisneau escape the nightmare of the high schools in suburbs: the relaxation of the school map did not escape the good students or children of the middle classes. "He suffered leseffets of the mass, but, with its range of courses, he avoided the ghetto effect" should be the trade unionist (SNES) André Maniscalco, high school for thirty-five years. Remains the most difficult: pushing the students the most modest, prone to self-censorship, pathways of excellence. "Stop with the image of young people who burn garbage!". "There are nuggets in the quarters, we must be demanding, not unwashed," insists Geneviève Piniau. A very rooted belief in the committed headmaster. But non-obvious as students themselves are struggling to project to farther afield than the tray or close to the city. This year, the full prépa Sciences po is less competitors, while the BTS of high school and the University of Evry show. Here, more that also guide is a mission critical, sensitive: for some families, the school remains a foreign world. "A father who I had proudly announce that her daughter had succeeded Sciences po told me that he would have preferred that either his son", remembers Geneviève Piniau, regret in the voice.

17 hours. "Room lobby.

Unemployed, students as teaching assistants are revising their partial while hypothetical candidates for academic support. This winter, swear, there yet nearly 100 students in the "room lobby. Five years, high school has made school support his weapon of choice against failure. Its arsenal is bloated: evening studies provided by teachers paid , scientific modules, vacation courses, "contract custom success" for students of a second in difficulty... The rate of repeaters has been divided by two. "We have not waited Darcos secondary reform", fun Geneviève Piniau. "Force of see on the ballot"does not work in it", I eventually convene two students. The first taught me that if she returned home, she had to deal with its sixteen brothers and sisters. The second, that there was no tables or chairs in it. But tables, this is not what is missing here! "Today, room, open until 19: 00, also serves as a refuge to high school girls to the uproar of the city.

Tuesday, 9: 30 am.

Office of the principal.

Coffee, cakes. In the Office of the principal, for the weekly meeting of the SCE, the mood is good child, but the order