The Fight for Saint Jean
When the students of Colegio Saint Jean saw a newspaper ad saying their school would be closed and auctioned off, they thought it was a joke. Little did they know that the school’s board of directors had run up over $320,000US in debt and would use the student’s future as payment.
In a small neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saint Jean is one of the only non-catholic schools that offers Kindergarten through high school class, a school for mentally and physically challenged students, and an undergraduate night school. Despite its 40 years of service to the community, it might be sold and closed forever, leaving its 1,200 students behind.
Watch as the students defend their school, mobilize a community and demand that their voices be heard. They eat, sleep and organize their campaign in the school, but ensure that classes continue. In a country that has been robbed of everything, their fight to save Saint Jean is a movement to preserve education as a human right.
The Fight for Saint Jean is an independent documentary film produced by the Mindful Media Collective that shows one school's fight to defend education as a human right. Colegio Saint Jean in Buenos Aires, Argentina is just one high school threatened by auction and foreclosure, but it could be any school around the world. The film shows the epic struggle of the Saint Jean students, while exposing how corporate globalization and corruption work against education. It is both a documentation of one community's spontaneous struggle to defend a school, and a call to action for people everywhere to rethink the role of education in their communities.
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