Nothing revolutionary beyond they want teachers, they want toilets that work, they want smaller classes, and they want air conditioning. Read the excerpts below. There has been some violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s all here in Time Magazine. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The protests have been driven by anger over a variety of issues impacting French high schools.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Roughly 3,000 people have been arrested since the protests began nearly two weeks ago outside of Paris, with nearly 2,000 being detained on Thursday alone, the French interior ministry announced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As demonstrations have at times escalated into violent clashes, 170 students and 65 school staff members have been injured, according to education minister \u00c9douard Geffray. Nearly 400 police officers have also reportedly suffered injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ***************************<\/p>\n\n\n\n A main complaint among demonstrators is the shortage of teachers and support staff in the country\u2019s schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The education ministry found<\/a> that during the 2024-2025 school year, nearly 10% of teaching hours went untaught in public secondary schools. About 7.5% of those lost hours were due to a failure to find substitutes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n **************************<\/p>\n\n\n\n Complaints about insufficient resources and funding and poor infrastructure in schools have also been raised in the student protests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “We are 35 per \u200cclass, \u2060we don\u2019t have enough chairs in classrooms,\u201d a 15-year-old student told Reuters<\/a> in the Paris suburb of Pantin as demonstrators clashed with police deploying tear gas in an effort to quell the protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere are 35 of us per classroom. With 35 degrees Celsius [95 degrees Fahrenheit] in summer, it\u2019s unbearable. There aren\u2019t enough toilets, and there are water leaks in some rooms,\u201d a 17-year-old said while speaking to AFP at a protest in Strasbourg in the northeast of France. \u201cThe building is falling apart, the cafeteria is too small. There\u2019s zero budget, zero resources, not enough supervisors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nothing revolutionary beyond they want teachers, they want toilets that work, they want smaller classes, and they want air conditioning. Read the excerpts below. There has been some violence. It’s all here in Time Magazine. The protests have been driven by anger over a variety of issues impacting French high schools. Roughly 3,000 people have … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-and-politics","category-international-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17432"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17448,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17432\/revisions\/17448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}