Saturday, February 18, 2012

Kadic Junior High School

Kadic Junior High School, also known as Kadic Academy, is a prestigious combined school (K-12 and College) located in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb of Paris, in France. It is actually existent in real life, though it is not called Kadic; it is instead called Lakanal College. It is where Team Lyoko attends school, as well as all the the other kids live. The school was built in the early 1900s, as stated in the episode Is Anybody Out There?. However, the books reveal that the school was actually completed in 1878.

Kadic Academy, despite its population of junior high-age schoolchildren in the show, houses five different school levels; Kindergarten, Elementary School, Junior High School, High School and College/University. Due to the school being located in the capital of France, however, the children do NOT wear school uniforms.

Kadic is made up of various buildings, most of them connected to one another, others not. These buildings include the Dormitory Building, the Science Building, the Cafeteria, and various other locations. Kadic also has a Park, a Track and a Recreation Room (opened in Wreck Room) for the students in their free time. Kadic is a boarding school, and therefore the students live there, though a small number of local students, including Yumi, commute to it as if it was a day school. Classes occur 6 days a week (classes are only in the morning on Saturdays), according to Ulrich, but there are no classes on holidays or Sundays. This may change, as most French schools are now adopting the American version of the school week. Students are allowed to leave the grounds with permission. The Sewers connect it to the Factory. There are various entrances to the Sewers as well, though the one in the Park is the most used. There is also a tunnel from the Gym.

The school is also racially and culturally diverse, containing many people who are French-African or those of Japanese, Chinese, German, and Indian origin.

Jean-Pierre Delmas is the principal and Jim Morales is the campus supervisor, one of Mr. Delmas's advisors, perhaps a former student, and Suzanne Hertz is the other advisor.

The school is a private school, and therefore it costs a lot of money to go there, it has the right to select its students, and is funded in whole or in part by charging students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory taxation through public (government) funding.

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