`titrebSummary`/titrebRate of participation in the youth club located in a suburban Paris housing development, whose members are adolescents of North-African extraction, depends on their spatial proximity to the club organizers (themselves from Algerian or Moroccan families in the development) and their membership in tight circles of mutual acquaintances. Their relationship with leisure activities differs according to educational trajectory : a hiatus appears after the « classe de troisième » (13-17 years old) between those who, working for one of the (devaluated) baccalauréats continue to come to the club and those who, headed for a BEP (vocational diploma) and already doomed to an endless round of small jobs (« la galère »), are less well-equipped than students in the professional stream to enter the « teenage culture ». The vocational-school students are the most numerous, being less divided by their curriculum. They favor leisure activities which emphasize luck and risk-taking, in an attempt to maintain « equality » among themselves at a turning point in their schooling. The study thus points up the effects of extended education on the organization of activities for adolescents from blue-collar backgrounds, by showing the many processes by which the gaps produced by the different educational destinations are – temporarily – contained.