Lille
"Silence! Sitting with your arms crossed and asking for the floor, you raise your finger with your elbow on the table!" Michel Bodin, in a grey coat, ruler in hand, makes discipline reign in his class. The 30 students of CM2 who come to visit that day the small museum of schools of Lille (North) know that it is necessary to keep checked. "You know, in the 1930s," this former teacher tells his audience, "the teacher could sometimes put a big slap on a student, pull his ears or kneel on the platform."
Little "oh!" disapproving are being heard. The students are then immersed in a classroom that looks nothing like their small school in Annequin, Pas-de-Calais. In this rather special Lille museum, groups follow one another every day for a lively 2h30 dive into the school of the 1930s.
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Looking at the scenery, students have no trouble going back in time. Posters and period furniture, small desks with inkwell, cabinets...
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