Small Change | California Father

Small Change | California Father:

Small Change

by California Father

Hi, all, welcome back to school.  Was watching an old favorite of mine, François Truffaut’s Small Change, and was reminded at the end of a sometimes joyous, sometimes trying summer with my son, of what I consider childhood’s essential truths. They are expressed here so eloquently by Jean-François Stévenin, an instituteur(teacher) in Theirs, France, as he explains to a group of his students what will likely happen to one of their classmates, Julien, who has been removed from his home because of his mother’s abuse.

“I know we are all thinking about Julien Leclou. It’s in the press… and you’ve heard your parents