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A sociologist’s eye on Georges Rouault High School in the nineteenth district of Paris

It was nice to have another experience in a High school in the nineteenth district of Paris twenty years after I had left my Georges Melies High School as a teenager. Three things struck my sociologist eye in the twenty first century high schools of the nineteenth district of Paris.
Staff in the High School
At Georges Rouault High School where I worked this year as a supervisor, the staff did not undergo big changes when compared to ten or twenty years ago. Especially the teachers; still the same kind of austere …

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