How to pull up a youth who, when entering high school, accumulates difficulties?
“We first do a lot of benevolent work,” replies Marlène Borel, principal of Robert-Weinum, champion of our 2021 high school ranking.
An establishment on the island of Saint-Martin already crowned in 2017. At home, "disciplinary councils no longer exist, or so extremely rarely".
And for good reason: teachers and management nip in the bud any risk of dropping out.
The recipe: identify the signs of letting go.
“We target those who hang out in the establishment, those who are always late, who have unjustified absences… and we put in place an action around them.
We talk to them, we dialogue, we also warn ", details Marlène Borel who" opens "her school outside of school hours, for help with homework, or simply a supervised welcome.
In high school even when there is no class
In addition to traditional school hours, his flock benefit from the equivalent of 16 days of “open high school” throughout their schooling, ie three years.
Same involvement during the delicate period of confinement last spring.
“From 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., the educational staff were mobilized, via WhatsApp groups, with teachers in direct contact with the students, to maintain a link with them.
Not easy, especially since our territory is poorly served digitally, ”explains the principal, who has provided the most disadvantaged families with 4G keys.
The "mobilization" of the teaching staff is also what Antoine Chaleix, academic director of the national education services (Dasen) of Seine-Saint-Denis, underlines, a poor sector whose high schools nevertheless occupy nine of the first fifteen places. in our last list.
“The strength of this department is the impact of the teaching and management teams.
They do a work of conviction on the students, taking into account what they are, to lead them towards success, always being convinced that nothing is lost ”, estimates Dasen 93.
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Still in Seine-Saint-Denis, Catherine Robert, who teaches philosophy at Le Corbusier, at Aubervilliers (8th on our list) underlines the "material factor", inseparable from good working conditions and therefore, from success.
"My school is maintained with a line, a broken tile is immediately replaced, the photocopier works", she shouts.
In his chest, the team has a social worker and a permanent school nurse
(Editor's note: in France, there are 7,700 nurses for 62,000 establishments of all levels)
, “which exempts teachers from many additional tasks, who only have to concentrate on the work with the students ”.