BIG NOISE
Enlightenment about the French National Education System hits the international press. How many anglo/americans living in France jumped for joy when they found the article about French education nationale in last week's Time magazine ? Peter Gumbel, author of On Achève Bien les Ecoliers , is polite enough to refer to Education Nationale as "bloated,old-fashioned." This DesperateAngloHousewife would go to further extremes and add constipated, draconian and jurassic to the list. Knowing well that I shouldn't criticise my host country I am nonetheless at a loss when it comes to the French education system. I have watched my own French children, France's future, being battered psychologically by a system and its teachers who belong more in the 18th century than today. My negative experience with inhuman teachers started when my daughter was 3...I was called up to school by her kindergarten teacher for a "very serious matter"...she coul...