“Before arriving at this school, my daughter had an average of 4 in maths, today she has 16”,
enthuses a mother in front of Cours Clovis, in La Fère (Aisne).
In the courtyard, the ten fourth-grade students in white polo shirts, gray pants and dress shoes wait silently for their history teacher to let them into class.
Inside, the walls are lined with maps and on the shelves are furry helmets and old uniforms.
We are not here in a posh Parisian school but in La Fère, in Picardy, 23rd in the ranking of the poorest municipalities in France.
“We wanted this project to benefit exclusively children from working-class backgrounds, in rural areas,
” says Jean-Baptiste Nouailhac, creator of Excellence Ruralités.
In 2017, this former member of the Esperance Banlieues network created Cours Clovis, a non-denominational private school open to all children in La Fère and the surrounding area.
She hosts…
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