The pupils’ grievances range from overloaded timetables and overcrowded classes to insufficient teachers and unbearable temperatures during heatwaves earlier this year.
These things have been going on for too long. I live in France and work in higher education.
It might seem like a weird thing to complain about, seeing how many vacations we have here, but students do spend more time in class compared to other countries. We have to start at age 3 here. We haven’t seen any benefits from this yet.
It is a very normal thing for teachers to be absent without replacement for months at a time. Some students I work with didn’t have a maths or language teacher for their final year in high school.
There are schools with more students than desks, with windows that don’t open, with leaks, with bathroom stalls without doors. I have held lectures in rooms where the temperature was 37°C and admin said “bring a fan from home”. On Tuesday of this week it was 32 in my class.
I hate seeing things burn. It makes the protest look like a wild riot. One of the private elite schools also did a walkout and protest… Did the police show up? They sure did, but they didn’t lay a finger on anybody because you never know who their parents are. The press makes this look insane, but student protests have the support of the communities as far as I can tell.
French person here : they’re making it look like civil war.
It is not.
It’s protests, and it should be a revolution. The gov is just treating it like the Yellow Jackets in 2018, putting the emphasis on isolated incidents to justify the use of force and intimidation on young people who fear for their future.
They claim they’ll listen to the student’s representatives and open a platform for students to express their doleances, but it’s all façade, as it was for the Yellow Jackets and the Citizen Climate Convention.
Macron and his goons are the most hypocritical, cynical, lying cunts that have ever been in power in this country, and it’s been going on for almost 10 unbearable years of silent complicity with the far right and poaching poor people’s lifeblood to line the pocket of the upper class with more money than they could ever need in a 100 lives.
Can’t wait for Mélenchon to chase those cunts out of power.
Mélenchon’s party “La France Insoumise”, France’s equivalent of the DSA in the US, has expressed their support to the students protests and has called for its members to accompany and protect them, wearing white helmets or armbands. The collaborationnist establishment is, as usual, using the same old tropes we’re all getting tired of to “condemn the violence” and make it look like Melenchon is responsible for it all. It’s been their go-to for so many years, it’s not even funny anymore, just pathetic.
Why would these kids need to be educated? AI will be doing all the work by the time they’re ready to enter the workforce anyway, so how can educating them now possibly help the shareholders?
how can educating them now possibly help the shareholders
They need to have meaningless busy work, they need to be distracted and occupied enough to not think about and not have the time and energy to build community and organize a societal revolution that would threaten the shareholders profits, or feel powerless to do anything about it.
protest by high-school students over long hours, teacher shortages and decaying facilities has escalated into “urban violence”, the French government has warned, as it said many schools would switch to online classes to protect teachers and pupils.
The pupils’ grievances range from overloaded timetables and overcrowded classes to insufficient teachers and unbearable temperatures during heatwaves earlier this year. Riot police have been deployed to confront the increasingly violent protests.
Sounds like the conditions of schools are urban violence.
You know, these kids are all right.
This is what a healthy democracy looks like when the rich get out of line
These students are my heros. I wish we had this kind of energy in my country.
France knows how to protest.
They have the ‘destroy stuff’ thing figured out all right. When it comes down to actually getting any of their demands addressed it’s not as good. I don’t remember the last time when French riots ended with any concessions from the government.
This is the way.
Meh they need to go harder to top the french Revolution
All these comments saying how good this is, but how is this impacting the rich? It’s not. Who was hurt in the violence? Again, the wrong people. Random iolence should be met with directed greater violence.
