Blocked High Schools: Student Unions Call for Further Mobilization
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Gatherings of high school students, for some of the violent ones, were still held throughout France on Friday. Unsatisfied with the responses of the authorities, the organizations called for a new day of mobilization on Tuesday where the education staff unions will be present.
Received at the Ministry of Education in the context of the high school mobilization, the student unions welcome the resumption of the dialogue, while regretting that many demands remain unanswered. Calls to continue the movement next week are already being made, as France 24 journalist Marie Schuster explains.
A day of action for high school students and students, with which the Fage, the first student organisation, joins, is scheduled for Tuesday, October 6.
On Friday, France experienced a new day of blockage of high schools, marked by tensions and more than 1700 arrests. The organizers called for the continued mobilization on Tuesday for lack of "concrete measures".
On Friday, October 2, 2026, the Ministry of National Education announced that 735 schools had been disrupted today. Incidents once again on this day with wounded students and law enforcement officers while Eduard Geffray, the Minister of Education, received the unions.
High school organisations called on the demonstrators to keep the blockage of high schools in the four corners of France, starting on Tuesday 6 October
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