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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.French students have blocked schools across the country, demanding more teachers, smaller classes and better-equipped schools.
Some protests escalated into clashes with police, while teachers, firefighters and other public workers also demonstrated over funding and resources. pic.twitter.com/eOpPqHF87PAmelia, 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.Read: French high school blockades continue as protests spread to universitiesUlysse 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 the bottom," he said.The nationwide demonstrations….
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.French authorities detained 625 people as high school protests over teacher shortages, class sizes, long schedules and poor conditions escalated into clashes with police.
The protests, which began around Paris and spread nationwide, affected 356 schools.
At least 83 police and…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 nurses and social workers.🇫🇷 ⚠️ French high school students lit fires outside schools and faced off with police on Friday as a protest movement that has forced the closure or disrupted education at more than 560 establishments showed no sign of abating ➡️ https://t.co/iIQtqmkIJE pic.twitter.com/hlggNkhldTLouise Paternoster, a representative for the Seine-Saint-Denis branch of….
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."What they wrote on banners, we wrote in a letter to the local education authority: overcrowded classes,….
That followed the government sharply expanding access to the baccalauréat, 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….
