TeacherFrani??ois Marin and his colleagues are preparing for another school yearteaching at a racially mixed inner city high school in Paris. Theteachers talk to each other about their prospective students, both thegood and the bad. The teachers collectively want to inspire theirstudents, but each teacher is an individual who will do things in his orher own way to achieve the results they desire. They also havediffering viewpoints on the students themselves, and how best to praiseand discipline them. The administration of the school tries to be asfair as possible, which includes having student representatives sit onthe student evaluation committee. Marin s class this year of fourteenand fifteen year olds is no different than previous years, although thenames and faces have changed. Marin tries to get through to hisstudents, sometimes with success and sometimes resulting in utterfailure...

TeacherFrani??ois Marin and his colleagues are preparing for another school yearteaching at a racially mixed inner city high school in Paris. Theteachers talk to each other about their prospective students, both thegood and the bad. The teachers collectively want to inspire theirstudents, but each teacher is an individual who will do things in his orher own way to achieve the results they desire. They also havediffering viewpoints on the students themselves, and how best to praiseand discipline them. The administration of the school tries to be asfair as possible, which includes having student representatives sit onthe student evaluation committee. Marin s class this year of fourteenand fifteen year olds is no different than previous years, although thenames and faces have changed. Marin tries to get through to hisstudents, sometimes with success and sometimes resulting in utterfailure...