French school protests resume on smaller scale as students return from break
Education officials said 41 schools were blockaded, about 1% of the national total, as students pressed demands 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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France: Students Prepare for "Black Tuesday" - Squats in High Schools and General Strike on Thursday
Students and workers in France continue their protests. The government's responses have not been satisfactory, to be precise. Their message is a "power struggle" with the government. The post France: Students prepare for "Black Tuesday" – High school sit-ins and general strike on Thursday appeared first on in.gr.
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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.
Students and students in France announce new protests and blockages in high schools and universities, on the basis of a conflict with the government that lasts more than a month. Tuesday, November 3, students called a "black day in universities, and Thursday, November 5...
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