X TV shows centered around shcool and education

27/05/2021

If TV shows are first and foremost an entertainment, they can also explore societal and social issues to give the audience food for thought. For example, here are 6 TV series centered around school and education.

SAM

Based on the Danish show Rita and adapted by Claire Lemaréchal from France, SAM follows the adventures of Sarah-Amélie Moreau, a French teacher quite eccentric with unorthodox methods. Between her rebellious spirit and behavior and her frankness, this young woman shakes the pre-established codes and succeeds in helping her students grow up and thrive. An ode to non-conventional education that highlights modern and original educational ideas.

Sex Education

Between sweet madness and British humor, Sex Education boards the audience into the ruthless world of highschool and its sexual issues. First loves, virginity, STDs, and several other intimate subjects are addressed in order to guide young people through the discoveries of their body and pleasures. It's thanks to an sexoloist apprentice of only 16 that Moordale's students will learn about sex and its secrets. A processus as astonishing as it is smart to instruct new generations with a light tone while still being informative.

La Faute à Rousseau

Loosely based on the catalan show Merli, La Faute à Rousseau advocates education through philosophy. The TV series centers around the journey of a philosophy professor as lunar as he is fascinating and who leads his students to think about their existence in depth and to work through their own issues with the help of great thinkers. Every episode is centered on a specific theme, such as justice, love or freedom. Philosophical concepts that are addressed in class and then applied to the highschoolers' everyday life.

13 Reasons Why

Dark and anxiety-inducing, 13 Reasons Why delves into the daily life of a group of American teenagers, facing real issues. Bullying, humiliations, rape, alcohol, drugs, mental illness, the show addresses important issues that corrupt today's youth. The Netflix TV series is centered around the suicide of a seventeen years old girl, a starting point for numerous other terrible and devastating dramas.

Le Remplaçant

Starring Joey Starr, Le Remplaçant offers a new point of view for school learning thanks to a quirky French professor who is quite rough around the edges. Gruff, hasty and nonconformist, Nicolas Valeyre take over the reins of middle schoolers, regarded as difficult while inspiring himself from cult movies such as Dead Poets Society, this out of the ordinary professor is going to teach them about oratory and belles-lettres, to use a weapon to face life.

Skam

Inspired by the norwegian eponymous show, Skam highlights fears and diverse struggles faced by teenagers today. Every season follows a new character facing a specific issue, a way to address different and important thematics linked to this new generation. Acceptation, cyber-bullying, homosexuality, depression or contraception, a lot of relevant subjects addressed episode after episode that shed a new light on the daily lives of teenagers.

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