Perceptions+of+Youth+and+their+Potential

===="Caseworkers labeled children who refused help as beyond help, seeing this as evidence of their cultural backwardness, refusal to integrate within French society, and their criminal propensities (Inspection Preliminaire, SEAT de Paris 2003:140)." (Terrio 2008; 884) ====

==== "To assert that the rioters are culturally alienated and difficult to integrate is to isolate cultural difference as a cause for social unrest and to downplay the more significant factors of economic marginalization, spatial segregation and anti-immigrant racism. It reproduces a stigmatizing French discourse on integration that puts the onus on immigrants to adapt and to become French without examining the obstacles they face." (Terrio 2006) ====

====In Entre les murs, a mother sees the local school’s education as less than the best because the teachers have to teach to the level of immigrant children, with the result that her son’s education is lacking. Meanwhile, the teacher who plays the main character seems torn between knowing that the minority students could perform so much better than they do, but being daily confronted with the task of making them believe it enough to put in an effort toward improving themselves. ====

====Entre les murs (The Class) Official Website ====