POLITICS● ELEVATEDOct 4 · Oct 4, 2026, 6:42 PM
Hundreds of schools to close on Monday as education protests rock France
South China Morning Post · western europe
Up to 500 schools across France will be totally or partly closed on Monday because of a wave of pupil protests that has shaken the country, the education minister said. Lessons will be “totally or partly suspended” in some “400-500” high schools as the security conditions “have not been fulfilled”, said Education Minister Edouard Geffray on Sunday, adding that 24 schools had been “burned or ransacked” since the start of the movement. He described the closures as chiefly a security precaution...
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