LONDON, October 26 (IPS) – Classrooms with mouldy walls, riddled with cockroaches and rats, stifling in summer and freezing in winter: this is how French high school students describe the places where they’re meant to learn. These impossible-to-ignore symbols of underfunding and neglect sparked a protest movement that has shaken the country.
Read the full story, “France’s New Protest Generation Rises”, on globalissues.org →
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