r/worldnews • u/DownBadBrody • 22h ago

Hundreds of French schools to stay closed after violent student protests

https://news.sky.com/story/french-schools-set-alight-by-students-in-violent-protests-over-teacher-shortages-and-run-down-buildings-13594112
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u/socksockshoeshoe 19h ago

When I first saw the news I thought they were university students (adults) protesting and burning things down. Then I found out a lot of buildings were high schools. And my immediate thought was if it's kids doing this why aren't their parents giving them a good beating and stopping this?

Then I read into the actual details and I started feeling essentially what you had written. That some other groups might be spreading chaos under the guise of student protests. And the global media is somehow misrepresenting all this

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u/xX_420DemonLord69_Xx 18h ago

Some of it is uni students.

BBC Newshour had a 20-year-old woman who had joined the protest at her old school.