Blocking of High Schools: the Minister of Education Makes Proposals without Calming the Anger, Clashes Everywhere in France
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Edouard Geffray conceded that high school students are "not often heard" and promised to respond to certain demands.
Over the past ten days, the blockades have been increasing in French high schools. Unlike the high school mobilizations that have marked the last few decades, the latter is aggregating both local and general demands – conditions of learning, means allocated to education, the state of the school structure, uses of time, Parcoursup – while being marked by episodes of violence. Beyond the mobilization itself, this situation questions the School's a…
Édouard Geffray went to meet high school students in the Yvelines. The Minister of Education and about 15 young people had a broken discussion about lack of resources and police violence. On Monday afternoon, 589 institutions were disrupted.
At the beginning of October 2026, France was going through a crisis in high schools of critical magnitude, marked by the blocking or disruption of more than 950 establishments, violent clashes and intense controversy over the role of adults.
Guest from France 2 and France Inter this Sunday, Édouard Geffray informed about the partial or total closure of hundreds of high schools, while high school unions are calling for a new day of demonstrations this Tuesday, October 6.
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