When mothers explain the game of chess to the children gathered around the table, Arnaud, father of Noé years old and Hugo 5 years old, decides “School is an opportunity. We, what we want to choose, is the way of educating our children”. If the eldest is in Instruction En Famille, the request for IEF for Noé has been refused under “reason 4”. In legal proceedings since June to obtain an appeal, Arnaud attends the hearing date of the administrative court. “In the meantime, we haven’t sent him to school, it’s a form of civil disobedience but we want to follow what seems good and right to us,” he assumes. If the appeal filed has failed, three solutions are available to the family: to continue in their situation, to expatriate from a region or even a country, or send Noé to school. Determined and convinced, Arnaud says he is ready to do anything to pursue his “life project”. He affirms that if Noé and Hugo want to be educated, like “98% of children in IFE who ask to go to high school”, he will not oppose it.

“As I want”

Against the background of reggae music, a snack in hand, the two brothers Axel and Tom (12 and 11 years old) who were in school before going to IEF, explain the notorious differences between the two modes of instruction. The courses respect their desires, their dispositions and do not put pressure on them. From school, they have no regrets, and keep only one boyfriend each, whom they continue to see. What do they miss the most? ” Playtime “