Men teachers of schools: "Sometimes students call me mom"

The little school children call him "master", "master Benoît" or simply "Benoît". "But sometimes it's mistress, mom or even grandpa," he smiles. Benoît Deparpe, 48 years old, is director of the Biesles public school, village of Haute-Marne, in which he teaches in small section of kindergarten. Monday, he will class to 24 born in 2016. "This requires constant reminders . Whether one is a man or a woman, once our six hours a day, we are starved. We do not take a nap! "Hammered the one who is" instit "for a quarter century and" master trainer "since" more than ten years ". As such, he rubs shoulders with teachers in herbs. "Often, they say to me: Kindergarten, I do not feel able," he describes. While men are fewer and fewer in this profession where wages are far from attractive, his school is … the exception that confirms the rule ! "There are, in this season, four teachers and two teachers," says this member of the General Association of School Teachers and Public Kindergarten classes. "It requires a recognition of parents" He started his career by transmitting knowledge to students of CM1 and CM2. "I discovered kindergarten by doing replacements," he recalls. He took a taste. "At the level of learning, we have more time to deepen, to dialogue with children," he says. If women are legion in the profession, it is, in part, because they "are attracted more than men by the flexibility in the schedules". Is being a man influencing children's classroom attitude? "They arrive with the house codes. If the father is authoritarian, he will be very wise. But that lasts for ten days, "he says. Benoît who, with his responsibilities and his twenty-five years …

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