In the aisles of supermarkets, the rows of notebooks, diaries, kits bearing the effigy of the heroes of the youngest are lined up as at each start of the school year. However, they could less easily find takers. Because parents are torn between worry about galloping inflation and the desire to be “eco-responsible”. This is […]
The Cross the Weekly : What makes you get up in the morning ? Sandrine Widemann: The desire to help our young people grow, in every sense of the word. Here, we transmit knowledge, of course, but also life skills, which involve human, social and spiritual values. I think of justice, solidarity, effort, joy… It’s […]
“That’s the emotion box”explains Emmy, pointing to a box containing piles of objects. “The red bottle is anger. Black is fear. The yellow the joy, the blue the sadness and the green the serenity., continues Maïwenn, at his side. Serenity ? “Well yes, it’s when you’re quiet”she replies surprised that we are wondering. → READ. […]
The cross : The previous five-year period was marked by the introduction of national assessments in CP, CE1 and 6e. With what benefits? Fabienne Rosenwald: The primary purpose of these assessments was to become tools at the service of teachers. Each session is accompanied by a questionnaire completed by the teachers. After having received the […]
Eight days of closure at the college. The establishment sends its teachers home and the students as well, of course, including boarders. No, no, it’s not the Covid’s fault. It’s because of a measles outbreak. And then the info is not new: it dates from the school year 1938-1939. I find it randomly in the […]
It’s a journey through time and space, with childhood as a common thread, the way children are brought up and educated, the vision of the world that we intend to transmit to them. A privileged vantage point to understand what Japan was like during the Meiji era (1868-1912). → CRITICAL. “Tales of chance and other […]
” Myis all my friends have one! » The argument brandished by the schoolboy to get the phone of his dreams is not necessarily outrageous, since obtaining the first smartphone in France is around 10 years old. If the counter-argument imposes itself on the well-rehearsed parent (“What if all your friends eat dog poop, so […]
The title suggests that this is a book intended exclusively for school teachers. It is not so. Certainly, Philippe Viard is himself a teacher and director of the public school of Ennery (Val-d’Oise) but it is the whole of society that he invites to mobilize to make school “a place where children are happy and […]
The school is not done with the Covid. Arrested on Thursday March 24, the latest figures communicated by the ministry, this Friday, show a very marked increase in the number of positive cases. Among students, the weekly accumulation is 81,000, with a jump of 11,000 in the space of a day. Same trend on the […]
“All countries that do better in school than us have fewer school holidays,” said Yannick Jadot in an interview about the school published by The cross March 16. The environmental candidate relies on this observation to defend a reform of the school rhythm. But it seems difficult to directly link academic achievement and time spent […]