Tourangelle

Sometimes I'd love to be served vegetables just plain.  MIL is particular prone to overcooking of veg which are lovely to start off with.  She cooks carrots and peas and broadbeans together for ages, puts sugar in and then serves them without draining the water.  The soggy mess on the plate was probably quite nice about 30 minutes earlier, minus the sugar.

Sorry, you're absolutely right.  I got to it through a site of a CRDP which isn't quite as mad as it sounds though, because it is centre regional de documentation pedagogique,  and their websites have the names of the academies after them and the N changes it to national, and I got mixed up.  Glad you managed to find it in the end[:)]

redundant no, but numbers will be reduced with plans not to replaced those who retire

They snack a lot less I think.  If you have ever been to eat in university canteens, school canteens or company canteens, there are a lot of veg and fruit about.  I've done all three, and generally you will find that there is a dish of something like radish or sliced tomato as a starter, or often half a gratefruit, then the obligatory haricot verts with the meal and you can take a piece of fruit for the end of your meal.  So that would be three just at lunch time.  So if your average French person has had this at lunch and their fruit juice at breakfast, come the evening they may only need one more portion.

If you go to the site www.crdp.fr and from there go to les textes essentiels and from there programmes et accompagnements on the left there is enseignement primaire, and tous les domaines d'enseignement click on this to take you to qu'apprend-t-on à l'école élemetaire.  Download this and you get the curriculum.  And if this site had let me post the link then it would be a lot easier.  The contents is at the end, but you need page 219 HTH

BHV (but no clothes)

Well a pupil who is absent too much will get expelled before.  Absence is absolutely something they could take into account, a child who has been ill, for example, but struggles on to do the exam (if you are really, really ill there is always the September session) could get an avis très favorable that might help if it is a boarderline case.  And anybody with a disability that means they are slower gets extra time.  I have never marked the bac, but my OH comes back year after year with stories of pupils who have been let in because they had a good doissier,  and they were may be one or two points under.  I am not sure if that is before or after the rattrapage, though. 

Errrm I am afraid there is a final report.  But you don't get it.  It is for the examining board.  After the final conseil de classe of the year, before the bac, the teachers have to give an "avis" favorable, très favorable and so on.  If a child is really boarder line to get the bac, then the decision can be taken by the examining board to give it to them, (the examining board is teachers that do not know the pupil but have just marked the papers, they just have a number and they don't know anything about the child) and basically this final report is all they have to go on.

Surely if you fill in the little slip in his carnet, you avoid the letter....and if the teacher is absent then surely there is no letter? My husband once had a pupil come and show him the slip in the carnet and it said Rolland Garros.  Pretty sure the pupil wasn't playing[:P]

Actually I think that being English speaking could be a real plus point with some parents.  I mean if you speak to their children in English and they pick up a bit of the language then that could be really good for them.  I think there are many French parents who would not see it as a negative thing at all[:D]

[quote user="Weedon"]My translator says:-  AND THEN? ??????  This is WHAT that? ????  ONE WOULD BELIEVE ONESELF IN SUBURBSS!!!    C'est tout Pays Bas pour mois......please excuse my written French I am still in beginners at my class. But how near was my translator? weedon [/quote] actually I think banlieue here would be much better rendered as "inner city"!!!!

The coldest I can ever remember feeling in my life was about eight years ago in Vouvray(37).  It was November though, so strickly speaking that doesn't count!

Gastines do you have your name on your letter box?  If not, perhaps that is why you are getting the letters.  I agree with Sunday Driver, it really isn't your problem.  If you name is not on there, perhaps you should put it on, and if it is, go to the post office to request that only your post is delivered to you[:)]

You don't say if you are living full time in France.  If  you are not, if I were you, I would get married in the UK at a registry office and then have the religious ceremony or whatever you would like in France.  Getting married in France requires lots of paper work, I gave up, myself, I just couldn't be bothered it was just soooo much easier doing it in the UK.  You can't do it the other way around here (religious marriage and then legal marriage)

I wouldn't worry about it if I were you, because for a road traffic offence the letter would go to the address on the carte grise, not the one on the licence.  Of course he might not have changed that, but then he would be in trouble.  Any  letters you get, just write n'habite pas à l'adresse indiqué and put them in a post box[:)]

I think we must be at cross purposes.  [*-)] As you mentioned both social security and health insurance, I assumed by the latter you meant a mutuel, as I did when I wrote it is not obligatory.  Obviously there are different persepectives, I see it from my point of view of as employee, whereas you have your own business, so it is not quite the same.

just to underline what Tony said (but it is implicit in the post), 100% reimbursement is for a particular illness.  If you break your leg, and have 100% reimbursement for, say, a heart problem, you pay for your treatment on your leg like the rest of us

I don't agree with Arnold.  Income tax is not deductable at source here, and there is no obligation to have health insurance and it has nothing to do with the authorities.  I myself don't have health insurance right now, and that is entirely my choice.  You might have some problems with social security payments as they are deducted at source, but I am sure there is a way round it as many people have contracts in France and live on the other side of the boader, in Belgium, Luxemberg etc

Having been in quite a few secondary schools in (two) cities in France, I can say I have never heard this before.  Gates and walls ok, swipe cards, I've never seen.  But for the pupils in college to get in and out of school it is quite normal for them to have to show their carnet de correspondance, to show that they are not supposed to be in lessons, and that their parents have signed for them to be allowed to go out, for example, if they finish at 11.00 and don't go to the canteen to eat.  You don't say whether it is a lycée or a collège.  Your friend's daughter may well find she has more freedom rather than less.

no, what your partner has or does not have will not be taken into account.  Unemployment benefit (I am NOT talking about RMI) is not means tested, it is your right to claim it if you are unemployed having worked, it has nothing to do with what somebody else in the family might or might not do.

I thought that people in N.Ireland could have either Irish OR British nationality, as part of the Good Friday agreement, but I am not 100% sure on this, I remember reading something like it at the time.

I wouldn't have used autre fois, myself, I don't think it can be used like that, it is either l'autre fois, - the other time, or autrefois, meaning in the past.  I'd have used "ennuis" too, though[:)]

yes, I know, I was told about it in terms of it being a-very-unusual-thing [:)]

Very irritating isn't it.  Especially if you are trying to teach it.  Our boulangerie sells cookie's.

actually I have heard of somebody having a home birth here with a sympathetic sage femme[:)]