Quantum of Happiness

Here are four categories which French students came up with last week:

Food, people, free time, environment...

To these four we can add: Academic achievements, involvement in the community...

Questions about food: quality? diversity? quantity? availability?

Questions about people:

   people to go to in case of a problem

   people to help settle a dispute between students/ between a student and an adult?

   among students: clubs and associations? safety? places to socialise?

   students and adults: exchanges with adults? safety? recognition?

Questions about free time:

clubs and associations? places to spend your free time? things to do?

Questions about the environment of the school:

   equipment: accessibility, leisure...

   outside: places to stay outside? things to do outside? safety outside?

   inside: decoration of the corridors? safety inside? decoration of the classrooms? light in the                     corridors/classrooms? noise level inside? protection from the COVID?

   access to toilets?

   equipment(s) needed?

Questions about academic achievement:

recognition? help from adults when needed? cooperation between students from a same group/year? help from older students? information about the studies?

places to study?

Questions about involvement in the community:

    sharing an object to be identified as a member of the school (sweater...)

    links with former students? information about the studies after the high school?

    access to the school for the parents?

    building projects with schools with younger/older students or other high schools?

   building projects with the surrounding cities

   information, debates, actions about hot topics: environment, climate change...