Hi, thanks for inviting me to comment some insight view about our education system,
Our education system is divided in 2 : private (you have to pay) or public (paid by the government). Of course, the first gives you the highest chances to succeed in life, because you'll be friends with most of those who succeed, but also the classrooms have much less students, and the teachers are paid much (so higher quality of lessons).
I went to the first, private school, but on a specific way : the government paid me private school (would be very long to explain, and out of context).
In private schools you have atheist schools or schools linked to a specific religion. Mine was catholic. There are private muslim and jew schools too. All private schools are approved and checked by the Ministry of National Education, who looks very closely if the schools doesn't become a sect or else. The Ministry can close a school. Public schools are exclusively atheist, and all religious representations are totally forbidden. So when you hear about a drama about the muslim veil in France, it's always in public schools ; in private muslim schools, foids can wear a veil or even a niqab.
Student exchanges are very common here, and I personnaly knew students from Sweden, Australia and United States. In exchange they send some of our students in the partner foreign school.
It's true that our public high schools can be very huge, private schools are much smaller... and much richer. I don't know about other countries schools, but in France it's 8:00AM-12:00, then you eat at the school canteen (or outside if you want, or not at all if you're too poor, which is not rare). Lessons start again at 01:00PM and end at 5PM, sometimes 6:00PM. From Monday to Friday. There is no lessons on Wednesday afternoons. If a lesson is cancelled for whatever reason, or if you have nothing to do for an hour, you can't stay in corridors : you go to a big classroom named "Study" and you can do nothing at all, you can do your homework, but always in absolute silence. There's an employee to watch everyone, nicknamed the Pion, which means the
Pawn.
If you have bad behavior you go to the Colle ("Glue"), which means you'll go to the "Study" classroom with the others glued, on Wednesday afternoons, or from 5 to 6PM. You can be glued for a lot of hours, depending of what you've done. In Gule you also can have to write the same sentence for an hour, or handly copy a book, like this poor Bart Simpson. Some have been glued for a whole year, which means they won't see the sunny Wednesday afternoons with their friends for a year, and will stay 'til 6PM every day 'til the end of the year.
If your behavior was too bad, you can be excluded for 1 day, 3 days, 1 month, or permanently. If it's the case, as the law doesn't allow youngs not to be at school, your family will have to find another school who will accept a student that has been fired from somewhere else, and if you don't find the school, the Social Services will remove you from your family for
Parenthood Failure and will find you a public school anywhere in France. They'll also find you a brand new family (it was my case).
If you've violated the law too much, killed someone, put the fire to the school or else, cops will come to the school and take you to the Police Station, then a
judge for children will state about your fate : you can go to jail from the age of 13, or been sent to a disciplinary school who are an absolute nightmare.
What else ?
Yeah, about dissertations, it's true that we write a lot (why do you think that I write so long posts on this forum ?
). I've chosen the hard way and studied Literacy, which means I had a ton of French lessons, English lessons, Secondary Foreign Language (I took spanish (and was fired for telling the teacher it was useless because the spanish had no money) but most choose german), Third Foreign Language or Ancient Language (I took Southern French Language, because the south of France had a very different language than the North side, nowadays everybody talks the Northside language), Phllosophy, History / Geography (history and geography are considered as one single thing, I know it's absurd
).
Multiple choices tests are very rare. Philosophy lessons are... special. You don't learn to think at all, you learn
how great people from the past were thinking. At the philosophy tests, they ask you a single short , and often dramatic, question (like : "Isn't love an illusion ?" "Do Reality exists ?" "Is the governement legit to support Culture ?" "Is self-criticizing really objective ?") and you have to make a thesis-antithesis-synthesis-conclusion 6-pages argument who will conclude that everything is relative and that doubt is everything
About racial distribution
, you have to know that
Ethnics Statistics are completely forbidden in France since WW2. However, your eye allows you to see that 99% of non-Whites are in cities, and cities are 50% Whites 50% Ethnics. Countryside is all-White (with rare exceptions). In some public schools, so, with 2000 students or more, the bigger having 5000 students, you can be the only White among Blacks and Arabs. Which is why there are literally battles among all french families, every year, to send their beloved white-child to a white-school. There are many strategies... and the Elites know all those strategies.
French Universities have either shitty public universities who literally fall in ruins on you, either rich private Universities where you have to pay a lot. However, in public Universities where you can go at any age, even 100 years-old, lessons are free but you have to pay all the rest (food, housing, etc) so most of the poors who try to study there also have to work in McDonalds or else (and they fail, because they're exhausted).
There are also Special Universites like the School of Police, the School of Gendarmerie (because we have 2 polices, yeah I know
), a million Military Schools with billion criteria to enter, the "Administration School" which is the school of all the Elite, presidents and so on, and a School who needs you to have a parent or yourself decorated by the
Legion d'Honneur medal (sometimes named the Superheroes School
). There are plenty other Special Schools like this but I don't know all of them, and I think nobody in this country know all of them either).
All those Schools are in parallel of Universities and are quite a unique system in the world ; all those Elite Schools are also linked to complex free-masons lodges system. Those lodges are places where people meet but are not schools ; to enter one, you have to be friend with someone already inside ; then there's a secret ritual and you're member.
Such lodges have exportated very well in United States under the name of
fraternities or
sororities, and have took control of al the American University System. That's most probably why Elliott Rodgers shot 3 foids from the
Alpha Phi sorority of the University of California - Santa Barbara. There is a strong connexion between fraternities / sororities, masonic lodges, and the jewish diaspora.
About the Macron slap, well, he deserved it
and it was not very far from the place where I live. Today, the guy who slapped (Damien Tarel, so it's a White) was condemned to 18 months of jail. As you can see, Justice can go very fast sometimes, who-knows-why
The slapper was a fan of
european middle-ages martial arts (yes, it exists), and a member of the
Yellow Vests social protesters.
For information, Yellow Vests are a White French violent protest movement, not from the right or the left, who appeared in 2017 and was "paused" by the Covid restrictions. As the Covid in France is almost over, thanks to vaccination, the protesters are coming back, and what better come-back than slapping the president ?
That's all I can say about education here but feel free to ask anything if you are curious about a specific point, I promise I won't write
another dissertation like this
