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12/02/2008, 18:49 5-element Joined on 28/10/2006 Languedoc Posts 978 Re: Did you educate your children in France? What jobs are they doing now? sorry double post    Report

12/02/2008, 18:50 5-element Joined on 28/10/2006 Languedoc Posts 978 Re: Did you educate your children in France? What jobs are they doing now? In perhaps the same vein, I just watched part of a TV programme (C-dans l'air) about the high unemployment in the banlieues  amongst the young, and someone sent an SMS which said: "Je suis Bac+5 en Logistique, et le seul boulot que je trouve, c'est revendeur de cannabis. N'est-ce pas le probleme?"    Report

22/02/2008, 9:01 Janey Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 262 Re: Did you educate your children in France? What jobs are they doing now? Hi everyone, haven,t been on here for ages, been seriously ill for the past year, just recovering from cancer. Just happened to glance on the forum and wanted to reply to this one. We moved here nearly 7 yrs ago now. Our kids were then 9 1/2, 14 and 16. They all went directly into French schools. Like someone else said, we didn,t have English TV so the only English they spoke was at home. They are now 22, 20 and 16. The 22 yr old is a florist. She found an apprenticeship after leaving lycee, she now has her CAP and has one yr left of her BP to do, jjust taking 1 yr off as has just had a little baby. The 20 yr old again after leaving lycee found an apprenticeship and is now an electrician, has his CAP and BP, now has his own apprentice. The 16 yr old is in a private lycee doing hairdresing, will leave with her CAP, go on to do her BP and then has plans to open her own shop. They all chose to go along these routes themselves. They are extremely bright kids but had no interest in going to university, not all kids want to go down that route.We let them do what they chose to do. They all left french schools with good moyens, in the higest numbers. Were they just lucky, I don,t think so; there are success stories, there are jobs to be had. But it is true that it seems much easier to find manual jobs. They all wanted to work as soon as they left school and thankfully for them it has worked. Janey    Report

22/02/2008, 9:18 Russethouse Joined on 23/08/2004 Forum Moderator Posts 10,158 Re: Did you educate your children in France? What jobs are they doing now? Lovely to see you back Janey - www.quimperclub.org 99    Report

22/02/2008, 14:30 Janey Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 262 Re: Did you educate your children in France? What jobs are they doing now? Thanks Russethouse.    Report

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