
ILS DEMANDENT DES PROFS. ON LEUR ENVOIE LA BAC. #lycees
We just want to graduate and he sends us riot police. We're asking for teachers, classes with fewer than 35 students, bathrooms with a door, toilet paper, soap.
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- High school students' demandsOverviewHigh school students are demanding the bare minimum for a school, and the response they receive is deemed disproportionate.Listed demands⹠Teachers ⹠Classes with fewer than 35 students ⹠Bathrooms with a door, toilet paper, and soap ⹠Classrooms that aren't 36° in summer and not very cold in winter ⹠The presence of a school nurseStarting pointIn Créteil, where it all began, students were simply demanding tables and chairs.ObservationAccording to the ministry's own statistics, 1 in 10 hours of classes is not provided.
- High school closures on October 2EventOn October 2, over 400 high schools were closed in France, an unprecedented occurrence.Measures takenAll prefects banned protests near schools.CriticismTo prevent students from demanding better schools, they close the schools.StakesThe closure is presented as a paradoxical response to demands for school funding.
- Violence and arrestsInjuredâą MaĂ«, 16, lost the use of her right eye. âą Eden, 14, was hit with a grenade launcher at close range in the face, suffering a double jaw fracture. âą Aina, 14, was grabbed by the neck by a police officer.Legal follow-upAina spent 7 hours in police custody, with the case dismissed without charges.NumbersOver 5,000 arrests in 5 days, nearly 9 out of 10 of whom are minors.Locations mentionedIncidents occurred in Tours, Saint-Ătienne, and Lançon in September 2026.
- Interior Minister's statementsStatementOn TF1's 8 pm news, the minister calls high school students vandals, thugs, and delinquents, saying we've forgotten they are high school students.OrdersWhen asked about injured youth, he explains that the order is to use all available intermediate force.ReactionThe narrator questions what world we've entered.ConclusionWhen a generation sees a 14-year-old lose his teeth and have his jaw broken for asking for teachers, the state has a problem.





