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To protest against shameful conditions in schools is entirely legitimate. The government’s response is not As a secondary school pupil in 1994, I took part in protests against a reform that would have allowed French employers to pay young people below the minimum wage. Our campaign was successful, but ifContinue 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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I grew up in France, where all children are taught about the revolutionary roots of their nation and what the state owes its citizens. The lessons leave their mark Young British people have plenty to be angry about. Crushing student debt, private-school privilege, a housing market they can’t enter. YetContinue 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