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Marie350, new contributor to the reading group "20 Minutes Books", recommends Moi, prof 'et méchant. Why I resigned from the private of Jean-Baptiste S., published on December 1, 2019 at Éditions Spinelle.
His favorite quote:
The working conditions of his school, to which he had repeatedly returned with polite insistence, seemed to me to be excellent. There was nothing to suggest such an extreme deterioration in our relations.
Why this book?
- Because this testimony tells from the inside the functioning of a private Catholic high school and the tense relationships that can maintain a teacher, his students and their parents as well as the management of the establishment.
- Because we discover how students and parents can behave as real "clients", and dictate their laws to teachers reduced to the status of performers.
- Because this explosive testimony attacks a taboo: the mediocrity of private high schools with an excellent reputation but whose backdrop is quite different: clientelism, lack of student sanction, poor academic level, swelling of grades, illegal modifications bulletins, massive use of temporary workers, overflows of priests, etc.
- Because it is a fictionalized story, therefore an invented story; but with lots of real elements drawn from the author's experience. The latter refusing to say what is real or not, it only tickles the imagination!
The essential in 2 minutes
The plot. How to bear witness to the economic, social and symbolic violence endured when one is a history-geography teacher recruited in a private Catholic high school after having taught in disadvantaged public establishments. Vexations and humiliations multiply against him, he will have no other choice - in order to keep a minimum of self-esteem - than to take revenge with a growing cruelty against his students, going as far as sabotaging their baccalaureate!
Characters. Jean-Baptiste (main character), a few recurrent colleagues, pupils, parents of pupils, the school administration.
Places. A private Catholic high school in the Lyon suburbs.
The time. Current.
The author. Former professor of history and geography for ten years in public high schools in so-called "sensitive" districts, Jean-Baptiste S. asked in 2015 his transfer to a prestigious private high school in the Lyon suburbs. This experience was short-lived: having resigned from National Education the following year, the author is now a trainer for adults in difficulty in the social and solidarity economy sector.
This book was read with amazement and understanding!
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