Post by Jared Platt on Dec 22, 2008 9:55:18 GMT -5
Bienvenue à l'académie de Flavignerot!
[/size]Welcome to Flavignerot Academy, the school that I, Stephen James founded. We are a school devoted to not only to fine curricular studies but the training of our students in treatment and riding of horses. Our location has provided us with fertile land to accommodate our home, school, and equestrian needs, near Dijon France. We welcome students from everywhere, as do our staff with patience to aid them in understanding our language if they are not acquainted with it. We wish you well and afin que vous ayez une bonne journée!
Three miles from the centre of Dijon, Flavignerot is a tiny hamlet in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France. Up until now, this small collection of buildings only played host to a population of 23. But in recent years, American born Stephen James converted the left wing of his massive country home into a small private school. However, this isn’t your average school. The James’ family home is surrounded by acres and acres of land which Stephen bought off of his departed wife’s cousin, along with a prestigious stud farm. When Mrs. James passed on following the birth of their third son, Stephen’s passion for the farm died and he found it hard to keep their business afloat. But when one of his sons resumed his mother’s work as a riding instructor, Stephen became inspired once again and set up the boarding school that the place is now locally famous for.
Being a private school, and being founded by an all American man, the school’s curriculum in the past followed a somewhat American format, but due to the man employed by Stephen to actually be headmaster of the school being English, it has an English grading system. In all, it’s a bit of a miss mash. To solve this confusion, students aged 14 to 18 choose their majors as soon as they joined the school and take ‘add on’ courses in maths, English and general science if they haven’t chosen them as majors. You may also be wondering how the stud farm is incorporated into the school, aren’t you? Well, even if you’re not, I’m going to tell you anyway! Each student will be assigned a horse when they join the school. Horse riding lessons are part of the curriculum, and you can either take it as a major or an add-on course.
