Teachers on the edge | M6 | 66 minutes

In order to keep her class of 13 year-olds in order in a quiet school in the Val de Marne, Mathilde, a 25 year-old English teacher, can find no better solution than to yell and hand out punishments left, right and centre. She is facing her very first term and is forced to improvise because she lacks a solid grounding in class management. She is one of the young generation of teachers who enter full-time teaching straight out of university. Before the reform, driven by economic reasons, teachers remained as assistants for a year, giving them time to learn the basics of teaching. As a result Mathilde has to rely on the rare words of advice from experienced colleagues and DVDs supplied by the Department of Education. Sometimes the quality of education suffers because of it and Mathilde often feels discouraged. A portrait of young teachers on the edge of a nervous breakdown.