Abstract
The French school is characterized by very poor welfare indicators and children’s feeling that they are at home in school. This article analyzes a school reconstruction process in a poor neighborhood of a French medium-size town. The ethnographic and sociological research is based on the constitution and the follow-up of a group that includes various stakeholders from the neighborhood involved in the school. This experimental approach sheds light to the potential and obstacles to open the game especially to associations, parents, and children. To move towards a School of Care, the authors offer to politicise practical issues of the educational community’s everyday life (courtyard, security, health) and to bypass theorical top-down controversies around school values.