French school protests resume on smaller scale as students return from break
Education Minister Edouard Geffray said the disruption was limited to 41 schools, about 1% of the national total, as students pressed for reforms.
- On Nov 2, French high school students resumed protests after a two-week break, attempting to blockade schools in Paris, Marseille, and Rennes on a much smaller scale than previous weeks.
- These demonstrations are part of a broader wave of so-called "Gen Z" protests sweeping European countries including Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Albania, driven by grievances over living costs and school conditions.
- Last week, Education Minister Edouard Geffray offered €4 billion to renovate schools and cap class sizes at 28, yet called the current blockade attempts "very marginal" involving only "a few individual schools."
- Despite government proposals creating 15,000 new higher education places, students rejected the offers as insufficient; 16-year-old Meriem told AFP, "We've resumed the movement because we were supposedly given answers, but... it's clearly not enough."
- The unrest represents a significant test for President Emmanuel Macron's minority government as protests have sometimes turned violent with clashes involving police and riots in several cities last month.
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After the mass rallies on Thursday there were protests again on Friday in several French cities. For Saturday there are again scheduled rallies
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online-listing.comFrench pupils resume school blockades as country braces for more protests
High schools across France resumed blockades Monday as students protested school conditions and living costs, prompting concerns about exam preparation and the government bracing for broader strike action.
They protested against the increase in the cost of living and to claim a “worthy salary”
The regional government: "Excellent measures and sanctions to the height of the gravity of the events." In the day expected hundreds of thousands of people throughout the country
VIDEO - Will Thursday be the highlight of a very hot social autumn? Employees and civil servants are called by the unions to strike for their salaries, young and retired to join them in protest, when the government is expected on concrete answers.
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