“We will seek out families so that they can put the students to work,” assures Jérémie Fontanieu, professor of economic and social sciences at the Eugène Delacroix high school in Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis).
For 10 years, this teacher has been applying the “reconciliations” method that he invented in his establishment.
A set of tools to involve parents as much as possible “born from our feeling of frustration, as teachers, because we can’t do it.
They (the students) don't want to make any effort, they're lazy, they lack self-confidence,” notes this economics teacher.
Weekly SMS, calls and flawless follow-up in the event of absence or breaches of discipline, Jérémie Fontanieu does not let go of any of his students.
As night falls on Drancy, he taps messages for the families of the young people stuck together a little earlier: “Good evening Madam, Adrian was with me this afternoon and did some serious revision.
Thank you ;
We see each other again tomorrow!
Yours truly.”
“If the mother did not support me, the student would not have come.
It would have dried up.
So I send a little SMS,” he explains.
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In the documentary “The World Is Theirs”, released in cinemas on March 20, this teacher retraces a school year with his 27 final year students, who actively participated in the making of this feature film.
From the difficulties of the first weeks, to the first successes, including the doubts of the best elements in the class, the film goes behind the scenes of a method now replicated by 200 teachers elsewhere in France, from elementary to final year.
“As a result, they all passed the baccalaureate, rejoices Cathy, the mother of Kilan, one of the protagonists of the documentary, wow, great pride for all parents!
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