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Former teachers and authors of the previous text on spelling, Arnaud Hoedt and Jérôme Piron, in their “documentary show” provide a witty and documented reflection on how the school system ceases to be a simple machine for sorting students.
At school, Kevin was not an arrow. No one knows what he became in life (does he fish on his boat in Bora Bora?), but one thing is certain: year after year his course has directed him towards sectors and facilities among the least discerning. Arnaud Hoedt and Jérôme Piron do not completely rule out that Kevin was a bit of an idiot. But two former Belgian teachers, famous for a previous spelling show – friendship – and for their commitment to relaxing the rules of French grammar, the fear that they allowed themselves to be influenced by this idea that could have been fatal to Kevin’s educational fate.
And above all, they ask: why is our education system incapable of being anything other than a machine for sorting students and discouraging the weakest? Year after year, they note, less than 10% of Kevins get a very good grade in their senior year (we’ll let you guess the score for Marie, Sophie, or Arnaud). Equal opportunity, this is a big joke.
Teacher bias and student psychology
Without losing any of the teacher’s reflexes from their former professional life, Arnaud Hoedt and Jérôme Piron prepared a fun educational evening course called Kevin (they prefer to talk about a “documentary play”), which is playing until May 11 at the Théâtre