Alternative schools in France offer students a chance to adapt to their education. Some schools offer various alternative pedagogies and are based on a desire to adapt.
Others emphasize skills that are less exploited elsewhere. Some of these schools cost several thousand euros per year and are popular with well-off families. They include Cours Montaigne, Janson high school and Steiner-Waldorf school in Paris. The students chose alternative schools, with teaching methods outside the usual standards, because they wanted a cocoon.