High school students took action again in France: High schools were surrounded in many regions

According to local media, hundreds of high school students protested and blocked school entrances in the capital Paris, as well as in the cities of Marseille, Toulouse, Rennes and Lyon.

While 75 schools across Marseille are affected by the actions, the siege continues in 7 high schools. In front of Berthelot and Arenes high schools in Toulouse, high school students blocked the entrance to the school with garbage bins and barricades.

In his statement to France Inter, French Minister of Education Edouard Geffray said that education was disrupted due to protests in some schools in the Ile-de-France region, where the capital Paris is located, in the Nord province and in Toulouse.

Minister of National Education Geffray had announced that class sizes in high schools would be reduced, in this context, the contract process of 920 contracted teachers would be completed and more than 500 additional quotas would be opened.

Geffray also promised that the platform called Parcoursup, where applications to higher education institutions are made, will be changed by 2028, and noted that they will provide a low-interest loan of 4 billion euros until 2030 in order to adapt schools, which are very hot in summer and very cold in winter, to climate change by equipping them with air conditioning and heating systems. High school students, who did not find the government's commitments sufficient, called for a return to siege actions.