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8 juin 2015

Protests in the Classroom

Recently, just for the fun of it, I thought I'd get my kids riled up about something. So I started a nice, light and cheery series of lessons about world problems: racism, discrimination, poverty, starvation, the environment, war, deforestation, animal...

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Tags: mayotte, school, rubbish, clandestine, immigration, martin luther king, kids, violence, room, rape, classroom, litter, attack, discrimination, dream, environment, poster, racism, segregation, speech

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8 décembre 2014

Rain at School

It's been raining quite a bit recently. This is the effect of all this rain on my school: quite impressive, actually. Everything and everyone gets soaked five minutes in, the kids go swimming in the puddles, bags and books included, and you can't hear...

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Tags: water, pupils, school, teacher, bottle, bag, rain, room, swimming, pool, umbrella, football, everywhere, plastic

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18 novembre 2013

Striking Teachers.

Before the school holidays, the French authorities started talking about their civil servants. Specifically the civil servants working overseas. As you already know, all French civil servants receive bonuses for working in the French overseas territories...

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Tags: mayotte, school, teacher, strike, money, euro, room, staff, bonus, civil servant, compensation, distance, headmistress, paper, pension, tax, thousand

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