French education ministry follows Britain and Netherlands in incorporating Netflix hit into school curriculums
France has followed the UK and the Netherlands in allowing the Netflix drama Adolescence to be used in secondary schools as part of efforts to teach teenagers about toxic masculinity and online harms.
The French education ministry will offer schools five classes based on excerpts from the critically acclaimed mini-series, which has provoked a global debate about the impact on young boys of misogynistic content online and on social media.
The producer of the series – the second most-watched English-language series ever on Netflix, with more than 140m views as of 1 June – had granted the government the rights for educational use, according to the education minister, Élisabeth Borne.
Borne told LCI television the excerpts were “very representative of the violence that can exist among young people” and would be shown to pupils aged about 14 and older, accompanied by specially developed teaching materials.
