Abstract
An experiment was carried out in 1984, in order to make it easier for the student to switch from the junior high school (C.E.S. in French, college d’enseignement secondaire, college for secondary education -age 1 1-15) to which the child had been appointed at the beginning of his first year, to a different one.
It made it possible to come to a number of conclusions as to the effects deriving from a relative freedom of choice given to the families. These choices lead to organize the different categories of schools into a hierarchy as far as the families applications are massively for junior high schools whose characteristics are looked upon as positive, whichever of them you examine : namely, their former status, whereabouts, social composition and the academic features of their pupils.
On the opposite, families ask for a change mainly when children are sent to a school whose public image is mostly negative.
The reasons given by the families to justify their demand for a change can be divided into two catego¬ ries of the same importance : those which are functional, mainly the distance from school to parents home or work address, and those which are linked to the negative or positive reputation of the schools.
These changes increase the social inequality of educational opportunities, since the upper classes who were already more lucky with the first school their children had been appointed to than clerks and blue collars, are all the more so, when they get the schools they wish for.
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