For a long time, Eulalie Bigolet was angry with words. A few days after obtaining her professional baccalaureate in People Services and Animation in the Territories (Sapat), in June, the 19-year-old student wanted to take up her pen again. His letter was addressed to “the entire teaching team of the rural family home [MFR] d’agencourt [Côte-d’Or] : These six years saved me from despair. Before entering your school, I was convinced that I was bad in class and had no intellectual ability. Then you taught me and I had confidence in myself. Proof of this is: university certificate, quite good honors; CAPa saver [CAP agricole Services aux personnes et vente en milieu rural]mentions quite well; Sapat vocational baccalaureate, pretty good honors ».
“Bran”. It is also the first word that comes to Céline Moreno, 19 years old and with long blonde hair, to describe the seven years she has spent at the MFR in Baigneux-les-Juifs (Côte-d’Or) since the 4th.my. After holding on to obtain his Sapat baccalaureate (he repeated his last year), he let himself be convinced by his trainers to continue for a year in social animation BPJEPS (professional certificate for youth, popular education and sports), in the same class that Eulalia: “This is my second home. The instructors are like family. »
There are not many kids in the corridors, boarding rooms and training rooms of the MFR in Baigneux-les-Juifs. Here it is the local girls who tell their stories. those who “maintain the campaign”or will celebrate soon, to use the title of the research by Sophie Orange and Fanny Renard (Women running the campaignThe Dispute, 2022). Sociologists show to what extent the organization of rural territories is largely based on “a group of women” which, given the withdrawal of the social State, provide all essential services: early childhood and childhood, old age, local communities, etc.
For now they continue to alternate. Teenage dreams and teddy bears under the pillow, adult worries. “Take care of people”the old and the small, have “I always wanted to do this”they say in unison, with flip-flops with pompoms on their feet. Although.
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The story of these young women begins at school. HE “classical school system”the fact that “I didn’t want [d’elles] ». “In [collège] Overall, I would have completely given up! »exclaims Rosie Lefebvre, 17 years old, in the last year of Sapat, with a certain maturity. At the end of high school, he was diagnosed with HPE, for “high emotional potential.” Although she gives little credence to this type of evidence, one thing is certain: “classes of 30, 35, it’s not for me”. She needs his peace.
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