• In France, public and private education coexist and allow parents who have the means to do so to choose more freely the framework in which they wish to see their child grow up and learn.

  • Private education, much more expensive than free public school at registration, seems to keep its promises for the readers of

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    who answered a questionnaire on the subject.

  • Listening, dialogue, the followers of the private sector explain what seduced them.

Public or private?

"It's extremely hard to choose," assures Amandine, anxious to offer her offspring the best education possible through school.

“We registered for public and then changed to private.

With fewer students per class, we thought that the follow-up would be better… To see!

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Like Amandine, many parents ask themselves the question each year, and a minority of them end up avoiding registration at the town hall, seduced by private education.

Our readers who have made this choice highlight the quality of his educational support, the discipline he imposes, but also a deep rejection of public schools for more or less avowed reasons.

The meaning of dialogue

“I schooled my two boys aged 3 and 4 in the private sector.

Not out of religious or other conviction, but for the whole educational project,” confides Marie.

Testimonies are flowing in this direction.

According to Virginie, mother of two children placed in the private sector, the adults are "present there to help them grow and not just to give them knowledge".

Gwendoline makes the same observation: “My children are followed in their schooling by the teaching staff and a multitude of things can be put in place to best support the child on the path to success.

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Children's well-being

Between kindergarten and the baccalaureate, children are destined to spend most of their time in school.

So some parents want their children to grow in a living environment that meets their expectations.

If Audrey avoided the public college of her sector for her children, it is partly because of “her sectorization”.

The establishment in question “was in a disadvantaged neighborhood.

We wanted to provide a better facility and a better environment for our children,” she explains.

Public rejection

To read the testimonies of parents who have chosen the private sector for the education of their children, their decision seems to have been taken in a logic of rejection of public school, either out of mistrust or at the end of bad experiences. .

According to Christian, in the private sector, “there are fewer strike days, absences are replaced more systematically”.

“I enrolled my child in a private high school this year because I want her to pass her baccalaureate and be able to work in good conditions without a strike, without a lack of teachers,” adds Delphine.

Many parents regret having placed their children in the public for a time.

Charlotte evokes the "hell" experienced by her son, victim of harassment in college before flourishing "for the first time in his life" since his arrival in a private establishment where, according to his mother, the teachers informed of his past have taken special care of him.

Regrets, there are also in Jean-Pierre.

He resents his son's mistresses who did not detect his dyslexia and allowed him to go from class to class, until CE2, without knowing how to read and write as he should have.

A delay caught up at the cost of many efforts, later, and in private.

For some parents, the choice of the private sector is also part of the rejection of the diversity promised by the school of the Republic.

In more or less racist terms that we will not reproduce here, these parents find in private education a means of keeping their children away from the mix to which they lend many flaws.

For a price of between 400 and 1,300 euros per year and per child, our readers who have chosen the private sector have no regrets.

“We are tightening our belts, but it is the future of my children.

It's priceless,” says Gwendoline.

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