The clinic where psychiatrists give free rein to schooling – Liberation
In the corridor of the clinic, lined with high school students’ presentations, a teenager closes her eyes, helmet on her ears. « Do not hesitate to come back if you feel better », He slips his English teacher. This March morning, Benjamin Delga, detached from the neighboring public high school, gives lessons to seven pupils. All are there to reconnect with a schooling hampered by their mental disorders. The Vitry-le-François, in Marne vitry-le-French study system opened in 2020. Young people sail between two buildings.
One, nine, with large bay windows and wooden frames, houses their boarding room, a common room and a TV area. Each morning, teens go through a small courtyard to go to class or care, given in the building opposite, which communicates with the city hospital. Managed by the Foundation Health of Students of France (FSEF) and financed by health insurance, the establishment, for non-profit, welcomes 44 high school students in general or STMG, aged 15 to 21 and from the Grand Est region. One of the thirteen devices of this type in France.
In the Lycée de Marie-Angeline, 18, « It was not going at all. » « I had a lot of treatments for depression, I spent the first three hours of class to doze », Tells the student, written in a second year of the general second. Pierre-Alain, 20, was crossed by « Phases of euphoria and depression ». Meet in high school with « The others »