French high school students resumed limited protests after autumn holidays, with one percent of the country's 3,700 high schools blockaded on Monday, despite government concessions including changes to university admissions, more teachers and capped class sizes. Education Minister Edouard Geffray urged students to return to class, while President Emmanuel Macron said young people have been heard.
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Pupils maintained their protest after hundreds of thousands of people, including students, took to the streets across France on Saturday for a third consecutive weekend of demonstrations.
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French students returning from autumn holidays blocked some high schools on Monday, determined to reinvigorate a protest movement despite government concessions during the break.
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In the southern city of Marseille, several garbage bins were stacked in front of the entrance to one high school on Monday morning.
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We've resumed the movement because we were supposedly given answers, but... it's clearly not enough
I have students who are sitting the baccalaureate at the end of the year, and several hundred thousand of them haven't attended classes for four or five weeks
young people have been heard
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Just one percent of France's 3,700 high schools for 15 to 18-year-olds called lycees were blockaded, the education ministry said.
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