“We line up! We're going back to class!"
At the beginning of March, under a sun sealed behind the clouds, around thirty children line up in single file.
Dragging their feet, two of them are in full confabulation.
The hour is serious, warns Gabriel, their chief of eight years, the war is imminent.
Armed with the detailed plan of their secret village, they refine their strategy, before being interrupted by the mistress.
At first glance, nothing differentiates this establishment from a classic Parisian neighborhood school.
The children look like all children their age: they play with each other, make jokes and laugh happily.
In class, they sit on chairs in front of a simple whiteboard.
The playground has no exceptional equipment, it is a simple plot of land housed between four buildings in the 14th arrondissement of the capital.
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Before entering, each of the students took an IQ (intelligence quotient) test and obtained a result above 130, or 30% above the average for their age.
Another condition to complete the registration: pay 8700 euros per year.
Parents come to the Georges Gusdorf School (EGG) for special support, lessons adapted to the "high potential" of their children.
From CP to terminale, nearly 200 have left the National Education curriculum for this off-contract school, which records 100% of…
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