French school protests resume on smaller scale as holidays end

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Student protests resumed in France after a two-week school break, but blockades were reported on a smaller scale than before the holiday. About 41 high schools, roughly 1% of the national total, were blockaded in Paris, Marseille, and Rennes.

French student protests resumed on Monday ⁠on a much smaller scale than in past weeks as pupils returned from a two-week break, with youngsters trying to blockade a few high schools in Paris, Marseille and Rennes, French media reported. By 0830 GMT ‌some 41 high schools – about 1 per cent of those nationwide – were blockaded, the Education Ministry said. Hundreds of France’s more than 3,000 high schools were blockaded in the weeks before the break. The protests, which began in the Paris suburbs...