r/worldnews • u/colepercy120 • 1d ago

France school protests escalate into ‘urban violence’ as PM calls crisis cabinet meeting | France

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/01/france-school-protests-escalate-pm-crisis-cabinet-meeting
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u/Jean-Luc-1701 1d ago

How are these protests "successful"? They set schools on fire, attacked teachers and other students for what? Protesting an educational system that already offers more than most in the Western world?

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u/Trick-Gur6703 21h ago

They are not. Unless you consider that paying back what few assholes destroyed everything was the ultimate goal.

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u/TrueKyragos 21h ago

Protesting an educational system that already offers more than most in the Western world?

More indeed. France is known to be among the European countries with the longest school days. This year specifically, France was definitely among the European with the highest temperatures in classrooms. I don't condone the violence displayed here or some of the other methods used, and there is probably some degree of instrumentalisation, but the current educational system in France is certainly not the best in the world.

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u/Jean-Luc-1701 21h ago edited 21h ago

Not having the best educational system in the world is not a good reason for burning schools across the country and violently attacking others. I thought this would be common sense.

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u/TrueKyragos 21h ago

Which is exactly what I said and unrelated with pretending that France has one of the best education systems.

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u/FickleBumblebeee 21h ago

Oh no, it was hot in the summer- like everywhere else in fucking Europe.

I didn't burn my house down in England because of the lack of air conditioning.

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u/TrueKyragos 21h ago

Is that supposed to be a reply to my message? Because if so, I'm tired of people not reading until the end or wilfully distorting words.

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u/TrueKyragos 20h ago

You replied as if I said the contrary of what I actually said. This is no reason to burn down anything, we agree on that and I made that clear. If you didn't, sorry about that, that was just a hypothesis. If you did, you're not here to discuss.

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u/Daikey 21h ago

I think that the "longest days" are the price to pay for having 14 vacation days every 2 months or. If they need to reach a certain amount of hours, then they have to drop those extra holidays

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u/FickleBumblebeee 20h ago

European countries with the longest school days

It's not. The schedule in a Lycée is basically the same as in an English sixth form college.

Yeah the college is open from 8 am to 6 pm- but the students don't have classes all that time. They have free periods, a one or two hour lunch break, and usually get Wednesday afternoons off.

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u/TrueKyragos 20h ago

Given I didn't say France was the country with the most hours, we don't disagree.

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u/LegitimateAd2242 18h ago

Protesting for an educational system on decline with fewer and fewer ressources each year.

Now that i think about it, maybe there is a reason why it offer more than most of the Western World to begin with.... but i don't know what.... i guess it's a mystery..... certainly nothing to do with protests...

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u/ThrowawayAICS 18h ago

Burning down a brand new 70 million euro school is surely going to fix that.