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Le système educatif Français

By Alex Myers

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Le Système en général

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  • L’école maternelle, l’école élémentaire, le collége, et lycée
  • After college (middle school) one must choose to go to lycée général or professionnel
  • Lycée général- for students who want to take a more academic oriented path
      • Economique, litteraire, and scientific
    • Lycée professionnel- for students who don’t do academically well or don’t desire to go to university
    • Beginning of Lycée
      • GPO (system that helps students choose their career)
    • At the end of lycée all students must take an exam called le baccalauréat (Le BAC)
      • same as the SAT or ACT
    • L’école Préparatoire- two years of college consisting of vigourous coursework for students who want to get into Les grandes écoles for mostly Science or Engineering
    • L’université- college for literature majors and all other majors that are not science and math related

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Le Système en Général

  • Based on solidarity
    • group grading system
  • based out of 20 points
  • teachers often ask students for help in grading other students performances
  • all schools are funded 85% by the national French government and the rest is funded by the region that the school is located in

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Pros

  • Students are more prepared for work in their career spectrum
  • Not required to take classes that are far outside their zone of interest
  • College is cheap
  • Public school system
  • Foreign language

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Cons

  • Students don’t exactly know what they want to be in eighth grade
  • If a student does decide to change academic course he or she will have to retake classes
    • 20 year old students
  • Students are bound to their region in France when it comes to picking a university
    • funded by state and France
  • Scholarships are only given to the extremely poor not the middle class
    • Matthias

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Preparing to Choose a Career

  • Just like in America, France has college counseling offices and gives out pamphlets on career choice
  • Students must also acquire information about universities on their own for the most part if they would like to go to a university outside of their region
    • most students who do graduate from their home town don’t move far

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Personal Reflection

  • during my visit to Chauny I observed that there was a lack of ambition (lack of dreams)
    • “american dream”
  • I could see a young girl from a small town in Oklahoma becoming a CEO of a fortune 500 company before a young girl who lives in Chauny
  • Still more worldly educated and less concerned about sports and were more informed about international politics
  • Final Conclusion

Yes France does prepare its youth for choosing a career, but not a career of their choice for the most part

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