No school counselors?

I found this very interesting and kind of alarming. There were no school counselors present in the film. Is this because of the school being underfunded and very limited in resources, or is this common in French public schools?

I ask that because there was nothing offered for kids in need with behavioral issues or potential problems at home. They just sort of showed up to school and went home, and when someone got in trouble, they just talked to the principal and no one else.

Throughout the film, I kept imagining all of the horrific home lives these kids might have endured. Some seemed to have very loving, supportive parents, but others gave me pause. The fact that there was no one these kids could go to was deeply unsettling.

I was also kind of surprised at how easy it is to get expelled in France (at least at this school). That incident would likely have resulted in a suspension/parent-teacher-admin counseling session at most at my high school. Expulsion is pretty extreme when the student's injury was clearly an accident (the faculty were all acting like he'd punched the girl in the face or something), and all the kid really did was argue, get up and leave. They even acknowledged he wasn't necessarily a violent boy. It seemed like they just really, really wanted to get rid of him.