French school protests resume on smaller scale as students return from break
Education Minister Edouard Geffray said the disruption was limited to a handful of schools as students rejected new concessions and planned more blockades.
- 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 a month of mobilization, the number of blocked high schools fell this Monday. A decline that does not necessarily imply a lasting shortness of breath of the movement for the rest of the week.
Student unrest responds to the rejection of previously announced government measures.
After two weeks of vacation and several government concessions, the executive hoped for a return to calm. On Monday morning, 41 high schools were still blocked, or about 1% of the establishments. Édouard Geffray spoke of a "residual" movement. High school organizations promised a rise in power on Tuesday and Thursday, 5 November, when they had to join [...] Article 41 high schools blocked at the start: did anger really come back? appeared first …
After returning from the autumn break, French students closed some high schools in an effort to reactivate their protest movement, which began last mid-September, after a third wave of protests that took place in the country the first day of yesterday.
Several student and student organizations will announce new actions for this week
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