2023-10-04 15:48:12
A class from Turgot College wrote a rap song on the theme of the French Constitution. From a boring subject, they turned it into an anthem for LGBT rights, freedom of expression and once morest school bullying. A nationally awarded project.
From Turgot College in Denain to the Constitutional Council of Paris. This is the trajectory of this rap clip produced by around twenty students from the Pas-de-Calais establishment, awarded as part of a national competition entitled “Let’s discover our Constitution“.
Selected from around sixty projects, the video was screened in the sages’ enclosure on rue Montpensier, in front of its president, Laurent Fabius, and some of its members, Thursday October 28. Four invited college students had made the trip to the capital.
Four students invited with their teachers, Kim Hollant and Margaut Charon, to the Constitutional Council. • © Turgot College of Denain
“They told us this rap was a great way to approach the subject,” congratulates himself Kim Hollant, librarian professor who initiated the project with her history-geography colleague Margaut Charon. A photo, accompanied by Gabriel Attal, Minister of National Education, immortalizes the moment.
At the start of this project, there was a boring school theme to teach to middle school students: the constitution. Boring, complicated, not very concrete… “We asked ourselves how to make the subject a little sexy,” explains Kim Hollant. It will involve rap and this clip: “Our rules of the game”.
To do this, they call on the Losange noir collective, with whom they have been collaborating for three years on similar projects. “Inviting artists is a good way to work on subjects that are not simple, or sometimes unclear, for young people, assures Nicolas Delfort, its co-founder, who intervened on the writing vote of the project. We’ve done it before on the gender issue, this time it was on the Constitution.”
From writing the text, to filming the clip, to editing the images, the students led the project from start to finish, as part of the “media class” system. “The result is nice but I think it’s the process that was the most interesting,” note Nicolas Delfort.
LGBT rights, freedom of belief, denunciation of harassment… The lyrics of this song express the rights and duties of citizens in a democracy, the very rights that the French constitution defends. “Being Muslim is not being a skin color, are all white people supposed to be Catholic”, can we hear. Or : “Aren’t you tired of putting me down, stop harassing me, I wonder what I did to you, what is this mentality?”
After their national award, all the 4th grade students from Turgot college will be officially received by the mayor of Denain next Saturday.
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