Pride and anguish are mixed in a thinly veiled way with the feeling of being abandoned. The Parcoursup whirlwind is not quite over, nor even the baccalaureate obtained, that the parents must begin to get used to: the child will potentially set sail to continue his higher education far from the family home. The subject arouses enough emotion for the call for testimonials launched on June 9 on the website of the World generates, in a few hours, dozens of messages from parents oscillating between apprehension, sadness and excitement. Mothers, in the vast majority, who seem to have been carrying student projects at arm’s length or almost for several years. And it’s not over since, with rare exceptions, the child leaves without worrying about logistics.
This is the specificity of this rite of passage: students who leave home shortly after obtaining their baccalaureate do so without assuming financial responsibility, or in a minimal way, which largely explains why they are a minority TO DO. As indicated by the social portrait of INSEE by 2020, 43% of 18-24 year olds have their own accommodation, with extremely diverse situations depending on the social status of young people, and only 17% live there exclusively and finance it themselves.
So here are the families again, often stunned by Parcoursup, launched in a race to financial arrangements, in search of housing, sucked in by a host of practical details. Especially since the destination is not always well decided. As a result of Parcoursup’s late schedule, students submit wishes there which can in the best case result in training proposals everywhere in France from June, or in an endless wait, sometimes until September.
In Rennes, at Théophane, this opening of the field of possibilities triggered a crisis: the latter wishes to go to Lille to study law when everything was organized for him in Rennes, “free lodging with his sister in the large old family apartment, the cover” and the support of the father, magistrate, to succeed in the said right. But Théophane chose to take the tangent. Pierre Chuchkoff, the father, accuses the blow.
Rental file under the arm
Others, a little less upset, are now preparing their future weekends with children to compensate: “My son may leave for Lyon, 1:30 a.m. from home, he won’t get rid of us like that, especially the little brother! »says Aurélia Colas from Drôme.
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