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High school students in Paris' deprived suburbs spark national protest movement

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  1. Siyasi03 Eki 08:02

    High school students in Paris' deprived suburbs spark national protest movement

    Paris, Fransa

    Maisa, a 17-year-old in a poor Paris suburb who aspires to be an English teacher, joined tens of thousands of other students and their supporters this week in protests that spread across France over dilapidated schools, classroom overcrowding and teacher shortages. At Lycee Le Corbusier school in Aubervilliers, a suburb north of Paris in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, protesters said schools in poor neighborhoods like theirs faced the worst conditions. Last year I took the high school French exam without a French teacher, and teachers have a huge impact,“ Maisa said. A student throws a barrier from a blockade at Strasbourg University.—AFP/Reuters “These are not conditions to study in.” As protests raged at more than 1,200 French high schools this week, police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets in some cases. More than 5,000 people were arrested, and some protesters were seriously hurt with eye injuries, broken teeth and blows to the head. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez called it a “climate of unacceptable violence” and called for order. Amelia, 15, joined Maisa in the crowd outside the school gates and held a sign reading, “Our address should not decide our future”. She said she was demonstrating to demand the same rights as students elsewhere in the country. “The education authority is not investing enough in the suburbs. It’s classist and racist,” she said. Ulysse Rabate, a political scientist at Paris 8 University, said the protests show the way that France’s marginalised urban neighbourhoods are increasingly influencing national politics. “When there is a collapse of the public service, of public education, those who feel it the most, and the most violently, are those at bottom,” he said. Political flashpoint The nationwide demonstrations and blockades, which began last week, have become a political flashpoint at a sensitive moment for the government, which announced a series of deeply unpopular spending cuts in its 2027 budget on Thursday. The education budget is set to increase by a below-inflation 1.7 per cent to 65.53 billion, excluding teacher pensions. The education ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Education Minister Edouard Geffray said that education remained a priority and the below-inflation budget increase was due to population decline. The protests started in the Parisian suburbs, where poverty levels are high, then spread to Paris itself and other French towns, including Marseille, Strasbourg, Tours and Lille. Students stand near burning garbage bins amid clashes during a protest in Saint-Denis, near Paris. —Reuters At Lycee Le Corbusier, classes including maths, humanities, English and sport have been cancelled since the start of the academic year due to a teacher shortage, according to Karima Kara Ali, an elected parent representative. In Seine-Saint-Denis, two-thirds of high schools took part in protests on Thursday, the CGT labour union said. Youth, teachers and parents in four towns complained of unsanitary school conditions and chronic staff shortages including of nurses and social workers. Louise Paternoster, a representative for the Seine-Saint-Denis branch of the CGT’s education union, said the area does not get adequate resources for its student population and their educational needs. Two-thirds of schools in the department have unfilled teacher positions, according to a union survey. Not enough teachers “Our students are losing out on study time. Some schools don’t have drinking water. We are not equal to other departments,” she said, blaming shortages on government cuts of 3,256 teacher positions nationwide in 2026. In Pantin, a town on the northeastern edge of Paris, teacher Dilan Roche joined her students as they protested outside their school this week to support their demands and protect them from the police. A masked student attempts to kick a tear gas canister in Saint-Denis near Paris, France, October 1. —Reuters/File “What they wrote on banners, we wrote in a letter to the local education authority: overcrowded classes, no nurses, no social workers which is problematic for students with learning difficulties, many living in precarity,” she said. While France ranks in the middle of OECD countries for spending on education, the average expenditure per secondary school student has remained little changed over the last decade, standing at 11,660 in 2024 and 11,910 in 2010, according to education ministry data. The last nationwide high school protest movement on this scale demanding more funding came in the 1990s. That followed the government sharply expanding access to the baccalaurat, the school-leaving exam that typically paves the way to university, without providing schools with sufficient additional resources, said Professor Clemence Cardon-Quint at Paul Valery University, who researches education funding. The movement won an increase in funding, but spending per student later stagnated despite growing demands on schools. Cardon-Quint said students and teachers have taken on additional responsibilities over the years, including navigating Parcoursup, the university admissions system introduced in 2018 and criticised by some students and teachers as opaque and discriminatory. “In a period of budgetary restraint, it is more difficult to reduce inequalities,” said Cardon-Quint.

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  2. Siyasi02 Eki 10:35

    Hundreds of French high schools shut as new violence erupts

    Paris, Fransa

    French high school students lit fires outside schools and faced off with police on Friday as a protest movement that has forced the closure of some 400 establishments showed no sign of abating. The movement, which began last week in the Paris region and rapidly spread nationwide, has seen teenage pupils at lycees in their final years of schooling block access to buildings and clash with police. The students say their school hours are excessively long, conditions inadequate including overheated classrooms, and that there are too many staff absences. The government says the grievances are legitimate but has condemned what it has described as “urban violence”. Students have accused police of using excessive force and causing injuries by regularly firing tear gas canisters to disperse the protests. In Paris on Friday, fire damaged the entrances of two high schools — Leonard de Vinci in the south of the city and Gaston-Bachelard in the southeast — with the fire brigade called to extinguish the blazes, an AFP photographer said. ‘Held hostage’ Education Minister Edouard Geffray said “the high school student movement is being held hostage by ultra-violent fringe groups,” adding that nearly 400 high schools out of the 3,700 in the country were expected to be closed on Friday. Many high schools have also planned to conduct classes remotely, particularly in the southern city of Marseille. At least 65 staff members have been injured, including 40 high school principals, since the start of the movement, Geffray told BFMTV. Some 170 students have been wounded while over 100 high schools have suffered “severe damage”. Dozens of people wearing face masks threw Molotov cocktails, torched trash bins and clashed with police. — AFP/File “Parents must clearly step up and tell their children not to go” to the protests, he added. “What matters now is ensuring our children are no longer out on the streets, because they are in danger.” Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin said he has asked prosecutors to hold parents liable for damage caused by their children during the protests and “pay for repairs”. Since the start of the movement, around 2,000 people have been taken into police custody — 90 per cent of whom were minors“, Darmanin told RTL. ‘We’ve won’ In the western city of Rennes, the tension was already palpable outside the Jean-Mace high school with students dressed in black and wearing balaclavas standing not far from a heavy police presence. “As far as we’re concerned, we’ve won — our school is closed this morning,” said Lola, 16, who declined to give her last name. She condemned what she said was police violence. “It makes us even angrier — the police have no right to hit us or use tear gas on us.” Police used tear gas at the Kerichen high school in Brest, in western France, an AFP photographer said. The protests have also made a strong political echo just over half a year before presidential elections, with the government accusing the hard left France Unbowed (LFI) — whose firebrand leader Jean-Luc Melenchon is again standing for the presidency — of being behind the movement. But senior LFI official Manuel Bompard accused the government of “descending into conspiracy theories”. In a bid to ease tensions, Geffray said he was Friday meeting with education unions and high school student associations to find common ground for dialogue.

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