‘Nobody is listening to us’: on the school protest frontline, I heard why France’s students feel disowned | Alexander Hurst
Fixing the broken education system will be just the start. The biggest challenge for an aloof political class is to finally pay attention to an abandoned generationWhen adolescents protest that the government is failing to uphold their right to an education, and the government’s response is to send in riot police, the government has lost the plot. People outside France may have spent the past week watching the student protests in Paris and other cities, and thought, “Well, France has a long tradition of insurrection” or, “That’s just the French being French.”But the situation that has provoked the high-school walkouts and teenage anger is most likely not one they would immediately associate with the France of their imaginations. In place of its lost plot, the French government has a collection of anecdotes and statistics that it should be ashamed of: 27th place in the most recent OECD ed
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