One is a large multicultural school with a high proportion of British Pakistani-heritage pupils.
"A perfect symbol," mused Libération.Adèle, a pupil at a multicultural school in Lille, wants to become a teacher.
"It's been an important step to move from thinking of ourselves as a multicultural school to being an international school.
"We are proud to be a multicultural school and will continue to encourage new ideas to help us to be a supportive and encouraging learning environment where all pupils are given the same chances to learn," she said.
Bonner, a multicultural school where four out of five pupils don't speak English at home, is now classed as "outstanding", with 97% of its 11-year-olds attaining the expected level in both English and maths last year.
McQueen was born in west London to Grenadian parents, grew up in leafy Ealing and went to a very multicultural school where he was one of the cool kids, on account of being big and good at football.
In March 2000 Darwish was embroiled in Israel's "culture wars", when the education minister, Yossi Sarid, announced that five of his poems would be an optional part of a multicultural school curriculum - in a country where 19% of Israelis are Palestinian, and many Jews or their parents grew up in the Arab world.
"We have multicultural schools serving all faith communities and basically what we have is a head teacher who is mocking that".
As a teacher in an urban, multicultural school, I want to help my students connect with this history and find relevance in the literature they study.
Another woman who was most ferocious and unafraid of being ridiculous was Katarzyna Bratkowska, who's now a teacher in the multicultural school named after Jacek Kuron.
