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QWhat is at stake inside the school? How do kids work together with one another or with their lecturers and envision their future? What is the day by day lifetime of the educating workers? It is to all these questions that we suggest to reply At the guts of the schoolthe brand new documentary collection from M6, the primary three episodes of that are broadcast this Sunday, April 21.
For a yr, the groups from ITV, which produces this system, arrange their cameras on the Jean-Vilar faculty, in Chalon-sur-Saône, an institution labeled as REP (precedence training community) which accommodates 650 college students. They adopted the third yr college students throughout this pivotal yr which noticed them battle by the throes of adolescence whereas having to resolve on their route and procure their certificates. The alternative to handle, by their private tales, numerous points resembling tutorial failure, harassment, faith and even vanity and social networks.
READ ALSO Brevet: topics will nonetheless be supplied in regional languageCommented by Ophélie Meunier, these pictures, which additionally make clear the work and dedication of the 50 lecturers and supervisors, required in depth preparation work and an distinctive technical system in complete immersion.
Touching college students, dedicated professionals
Duygu, Luna, Raphaël, Manon, Lorenzo and even Jassim are 13, 14 or 15 years previous. The age of all potentialities… and of all questions. Or even all rebellions. They typically need to please, typically mistrust authority, however all the time dream of affection, friendship and a shiny tomorrow.
Some have come out of their shell and are experiencing their newfound recognition in faculty, others are attempting to exist by posting movies on TikTookay with out essentially measuring the doable penalties. Still others battle to beat their anxieties, to search out their means, whereas the latter solely take into consideration having enjoyable, even on the expense of others, even when it means hurting them.
In this regard, it’s not possible to not be moved by the discomfort of Luna, devoured by the dearth of self-confidence, and the misery of Duygu, mocked for his look by his comrades. Or to melt within the face of the honest repentance of Jassim, one among them: “I regretted the whole day, I still regret! »
READ ALSO Attacks on college students: “Social networks are revealing a new form of violence” Everyone thus seems to be devilishly “endearing”, to paraphrase Marie Thévenot-Thomas, their CPE, who workouts her authority with kindness: “Even the most disruptive, we still have more to offer them. And maybe one day they will remember what happened to Jean-Vilar. »
Because this is one of the strong points of this documentary series: promoting a profession that is too often criticized by highlighting the investment of staff dedicated to the success of their students: “Our role is that they make choices by ambition, by desire, and not by default,” she continues.
The CPE, the tutorial assistants, and the lecturers are the opposite (and maybe the true) heroes of those episodes, by no means giving as much as assist their protégés of their studying of data particularly and life typically. . Like Olivier Gilares, the bodily training instructor, who manages, by listening and assist, to make Luna smile, promoted by him to captain of the rugby crew. And of Mohammed, the strict however very appreciated supervisor, who ensures that order is revered outdoors the lecture rooms, whereas amassing confidences, “big brother” fashion: “We don’t realize everything that they do for our kids. They chose this profession to change the lives of these children. And they really change it,” says Andrea Palis, the producer of this system, to whom we additionally owe the docu-reality Baby increasebroadcast from 2011 to 2019 on TF1.
Two years of preparation for an immersive documentary collection
But the documentary additionally doesn’t ignore their failures and difficulties, typically a supply of doubts, discouragement and even typically heartbreak. Without concession… however with out judgment: “We spoke at length with the team before filming, we spoke to them about our apprehensions. Some teachers were afraid of being misperceived, for example, remembers Claudie Gaillard, Jean-Vilar's principal. But, if we didn't want a particular moment to be filmed, we told them to cut it. Nothing was filmed without our consent. A real relationship of trust was forged. » The essential condition for the production of the documentary, which required two years of preparation and scouting, also interrupted by Covid.
READ ALSO No, teachers are not more absent than the average French workerFirst step: convince the teaching staff but also the students and their parents of the merits of the approach by ensuring that everyone is able to cope with being in the spotlight. A psychologist met the students before filming, followed them throughout the adventure and will continue to support them after the documentary is broadcast.
The teams also spoke at length to the teenagers in order to determine who they would be more specifically interested in: “We knew the students, we made bets,” explains Andrea Palis, who however denies any “scripting”. Nothing was prewritten, we confirmed actuality. » And explaining that it was then only a matter of organizing the plethoric materials to revive it. Because it was hours and hours of “rush” that needed to be handled.
An immersion machine
Teams filmed the beginning of the 2022 faculty yr and stayed on the faculty till December. During the February holidays, 55 mounted cameras have been positioned all through the institution to seize, in immersion, the relationships between the scholars and their supervisors. A course of additionally used to Baby increase, which may evoke sure actuality TV practices: “As adults, we asked ourselves the question,” acknowledges CPE Marie Thévenot-Thomas. But belief performed an enormous function in our motivation for this challenge. We don't really feel like actuality TV stars in any respect, however like professionals. » And added: “When we see the documentary, we even say to ourselves that we are perhaps useful for something. »
Teachers and supervisors are also very moved when discovering their students' assignments. On the other hand, they will only be revealed to viewers during the last three episodes of the series, the broadcast date of which is still unknown. But we already know that we will not miss them, eager to know the epilogue of this moving slice of life.
“At the heart of the college” Sunday April 21 at 9:10 p.m. on M6
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