Timothée, high school physics-chemistry teacher and TikTok star

It's a way for him to share the interests of his students and "let go".

Timothée Curado, 28, is a physics and chemistry teacher in a high school in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) and "star" of social networks.

He has nearly a million subscribers.

“More than 100,000 on Instagram, and more than 800,000 on TikTok,” he calculates.

"His creed: to make fun, always with humor and benevolence, of his students, his colleagues, but also of himself", says

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The young teacher makes an average of two videos a day, most often from his classroom, and it's a hit

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"I think today's students need something else"

At the same time, in addition to having entered the Mister France competition in November, he is multiplying partnerships, with ready-to-wear brands, but "also for the choice of music that accompanies my videos", he explains.

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And his colleagues from the National Education?

“It's a bit double or nothing.

Some love this slightly more modern image, and for others, I'm more the clown than anything else.

A group of teachers was even created (on Facebook) to criticize him.

Ditto for parents of students, some of whom have already complained to the rector of his activities on the Internet, his inspector informed him, "who nevertheless remained very understanding".

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“In France, we still have an image of rather austere, strict teachers.

I think that today the students need something else and they make it good for me, ”says the tiktokeur who wants to show “another vision of his profession”.

So he dances, puts himself on stage and tells his best

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His goal: to make students understand “that they can be themselves”, he underlines in

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For him, “if you don't feel good at school, I don't see how you can feel good in society”.

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