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Beneath a wave of school protests in France lies a more existential worry: the future prospects of an entire generation • Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Say what you will about France’s high schools, they still produce world-class slogan writers. Here’s a briefContinue Reading

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The phenomenon of pupils wrecking equipment and setting fire to classrooms predates the current crisis. Is it rooted in poverty, social media peer pressure – or just plain boredom? Like most French primaries on Wednesdays, Marcel Pagnol school, in the eastern suburbs of Lyon, was shut on 19 June 2024. ButContinue Reading

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Fixing the broken education system will be just the start. The biggest challenge for an aloof political class is to finally pay attention to an abandoned generation When adolescents protest that the government is failing to uphold their right to an education, and the government’s response is to send inContinue Reading

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The debate around the schools protests is angry and polarised. I fear this is a foretaste of how election tensions next year will play out Helen Massy-Beresford is a British journalist who lives in Paris It would be tough to argue that the demands of France’s protesting high school studentsContinue Reading