{"id":13121,"date":"2026-11-02T12:23:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=13121"},"modified":"2026-11-02T12:23:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:23:05","slug":"french-school-protests-resume-on-small-scale-as-students-return-from-break-protests-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=13121","title":{"rendered":"French school protests resume on small scale as students return from break | Protests News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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High school students in France have resumed protests on a much smaller scale than in previous weeks as pupils returned from their two-week holiday break.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Education said 41 high schools were blockaded on Monday, about one percent of the country\u2019s 3,700, according to the French public broadcaster Franceinfo.<\/p>\n

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Students attempted to blockade schools in Paris, Marseille and Rennes, the Reuters news agency reported. Hundreds of schools were blockaded in the weeks before the break.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn terms of blockades, or attempted blockades, the phenomenon is very marginal. We\u2019re talking about a handful of units, a few individual schools,\u201d Education Minister Edouard Geffray told France Inter radio. He said protests were allowed, but preventing access to schools was illegal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe school year is now at risk for several hundred thousand pupils and we can\u2019t allow that,\u201d Geffray said, according to the state public news service Franceinfo.<\/p>\n

The protests began in the Paris suburbs<\/a> in September and spread across France. Last month, the focus of the anger broadened beyond education to the cost of living, drawing in trade unionists and activists. In a test for President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s minority government, some protests turned into violent clashes with police and riots in several cities, with shops looted.<\/p>\n

Students are demanding the renovation of ageing schools, more teachers, more university places and an end to a university admissions system they see as socially unfair.<\/p>\n

Last week, the government announced a gradual replacement of the Parcoursup admissions platform by 2028, cancelled planned education job cuts, promised 500 additional posts and a cap of 28 pupils per class in the first year of high school, Franceinfo reported. It also pledged 4 billion euros ($4.47bn) to renovate schools and 15,000 new places in higher education.<\/p>\n

Student representatives said the offers were not enough and vowed to continue protesting.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cOf course we\u2019re calling for a blockade,\u201d Pierre Sourzat, president of the student organisation Les Lyceens!, said on Sunday, according to France 24.<\/p>\n

The Union Syndicale Lyceenne and Student Union have called for further blockades on Tuesday and Thursday, while the UNEF student union said Tuesday should be a \u201cblack day\u201d for universities, with blockades across the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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