France's Student Protests Swell
Over 250,000 marched in 40+ French cities over school staffing; the PM says 215 teens were hurt.
Underfunded schools or organized unrest?
Over 250,000 marched in 40+ French cities over school staffing; the PM says 215 teens were hurt.
Underfunded schools or organized unrest?
Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said at least 215 teenagers and 85 school staff had been hurt in clashes with police, calling it the heaviest toll in decades paid by the school system.
Tear gas has joined the French high school timetable this autumn, scheduled somewhere between philosophy and lunch.
Gerald Darmanin's answer to the school protests is civil liability for parents: education reform, delivered as an invoice.
Parcoursup has made it onto French protest placards, which is more than most of its applicants manage with their first choice.
A teacher shortage started France's school revolt the way empty desks always do: quietly, then all at once in the street.
La France Insoumise is accused of organizing the school protests and swears it organized nothing, a charge both sides find flattering.
Edouard Geffray answered blockaded schools with remote classes, teaching France's teenagers that the building was optional all along.
Sebastien Lecornu blamed the hard left, then counted 215 injured teenagers; the counting was harder to outsource.