Greta Thunberg joins French teenagers in new protest against school cancellation

On Tuesday, October 13, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg joined protesters outside a high school in a working-class suburb of Paris, French schoolchildren who took to the streets for another day of demonstrations against poor educational conditions.

A nationwide protest movement against teacher shortages, classroom overcrowding and the destruction of school buildings has entered its fourth week, with marches, blockades of hundreds of schools and, in some cases, clashes with police.

"On Tuesday morning, students gathered outside several schools in Paris and other cities, waving posters and megaphones," the material says.

Numerous crowds marched through Nantes, Strasbourg and Marseille in the south, holding homemade posters with slogans such as "Tear gas makes us cry not as much as the state of the national education system." The marchers also gathered in Paris.