Thousands of students and high school students protest in Paris

Several thousand people participate in the manifesto of high school students and students in the Place de la Republique in Paris. It's from sb.by.

Protesters are demanding that the government allocate more money for education instead of increasing military spending. Many people went to the rally with banners “No more money for war!” The money is for salaries, not for shareholders.

Expenses for education are reduced, besides the lyceums are in a dilapidated state. For example, in the school in the department of Saint-Saint-Denis, where I studied, mold is everywhere, toilets are not working and there is a serious shortage of teachers, said a student named Capusin.

According to another demonstrator, Emily, “you can’t keep giving money to the military when the roofs of the schools fall down.”

- We need to stop allocating money to the military and sending it to schools. Because the roofs are collapsing, there are no more teachers. I live in the department of Saint-Saint-Denis, and absent teachers are not replaced. It's terrible. The national education system is dying.

Protests of high school students began in late September in the capital region of Ile-de-France and covered the whole of France. Protesters are speaking out against overloaded schedules, teacher shortages and other problems in the education system. In some places, the protests escalated into riots and clashes with police. During this time, law enforcement agencies conducted more than 6 thousand arrests, in 90% of cases they were minors. Teenager ripped off arm during protest at French school

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