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Injuries and arrests as high school students keep up blockade of French schools

Dozens of people have been injured and hundreds arrested, most of them children, officials said, in a wave of student demonstrations against teacher shortages and dilapidated buildings which on Wednesday impacted high schools nationwide.The demonstrations and blockades, which began last week and coincided on…

Injuries and arrests as high school students keep up blockade of French schools
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Dozens of people have been injured and hundreds arrested, most of them children, officials said, in a wave of student demonstrations against teacher shortages and dilapidated buildings which on Wednesday impacted high schools nationwide.The demonstrations and blockades, which began last week and coincided on…

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She said temperatures in classrooms could swing from sweltering to below freezing, depending on the weather."We can't work in those conditions," she said.According to the OECD global policy forum, French spending on education was in the middle of the range among member countries and increased between 2015 and 2022, but its share of the budget has slightly decreased.France's Education Minister Edouard Geffray told RTL radio that there had been 76….

He did not specify who the personnel were or the severity of the injuries.Politicians from the hard-left France Unbowed party have joined the demonstrations.

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Other officials and politicians have denounced the party for rhetoric they said was stoking students' anger.Bally Bagayoko, a France Unbowed mayor who was quoted as saying violence is sometimes legitimate, has said his words have been taken out of context.Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told broadcaster BFM that some 440 people were detained over the high school protests on Tuesday alone, most of them minors.

Nunez said there were seven incidents in which people threw hydrochloric acid at law enforcement officers.The government has criticised violence that has broken out at some of the demonstrations but said that difficulties in high schools should be acknowledged and addressed."High schools are meant to be open and to share knowledge.

They are not meant to be blockaded or to have trash cans set on fire," French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters in Madrid.Gamze, a 17-year-old student in Saint-Denis, said students in the historically working-class suburb were treated unfairly compared with students elsewhere."It's always us … who are suffering when, in Paris or in the countryside, they're not in such a situation," she told Reuters.

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