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It\u2019s the only way to make ourselves heard.\u201dFires burn as French students protest against lack of investment in education \u2013 video\u201cSchool is a right, not a privilege,\u201d read a cardboard sign as Sophia listed the grievances of teenagers across France: a lack of state investment in education, overcrowded classes of up to 40 children in crumbling buildings, poor teacher pay, staff absences and an unequal system in which social background determined success. Other reasons for the protest included the opaque and difficult online system for university applications as well as the unbearable temperatures in classrooms during the heatwaves in May and June.Students protesting in Lyon on Friday. Photograph: Laurent Cipriani/AP\u201cThe education budget is being cut to shreds while so much extra funding is being put into the army,\u201d said Sophia, who wanted to go on to study art and work in animation. 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Photograph: Romeo Boetzle/AFP/Getty ImagesThe government said the grievances were legitimate but condemned what it called \u201curban violence\u201d. Students have accused police of using excessive force and causing injuries by regularly firing teargas canisters to disperse the protests. In Paris on Friday morning, fire damaged the entrances of two high schools \u2013 L\u00e9onard de Vinci in the south of the city and Gaston-Bachelard in the south-east.Several students have been injured in the protests, while the education ministry said 65 education staff were injured, including 40 school principals. An investigation is under way after a 14-year-old boy in Val d\u2019Oise suffered serious injuries to his mouth and jaw after police allegedly beat him and fired a form of rubber-bullet launcher. The family\u2019s lawyer said the boy had thought he was \u201cgoing to die\u201d.Students gather outside the Lyc\u00e9e Voltaire in Paris. Photograph: Sarah Meyssonnier/ReutersOutside Lyc\u00e9e Voltaire, riot police stood guard on Friday amid the quiet demonstration by hundreds of children. \u201cWe\u2019re totally pacifist,\u201d said Yves, a 17-year-old final year pupil who did not want his name published. He would normally have been in history class but said he had the full support of his parents to be on the barricade. He wanted to study catering next year.\u201cThe atmosphere on this barricade is generally very calm,\u201d he said. \u201cBut there have been other people from outside school who have come past and tried to set fire to things, so we\u2019ve tried to move the bins to stop that.\u201dHigh-school students face off with riot police in Montpellier. Photograph: Horcajuelo Guillaume/EPAOn Friday morning, loud bangs rang out as some people further away from the school let off firework mortars. Yves said: \u201cYesterday I heard bangs going off every two minutes, it\u2019s loud and scary when things are being fired horizontally and not up into the air. There were people provoking running battles with police but it wasn\u2019t pupils from our school.\u201dCamille, 18, who said he wanted to become a teacher, said pupils were also protesting over the French government\u2019s lack of engagement over poor results in international education rankings. \u201cFrance has disastrous results and yet we\u2019re one of the countries with the longest school days,\u201d she said. \u201cThe government refuses to see that it\u2019s about quality, not the number of teaching hours.\u201dBins burning, with graffiti on one reading \u2018fuck RN\u2019, in Paris. Photograph: Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty ImagesFarther east, on the barricade outside the Lyc\u00e9e H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Boucher, students were singing and holding cardboard signs of support for people in Gaza, as well as banners against the far-right presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, who is riding high in the polls.Sofiane, 19, who was studying literature, said students feared the government would scrap its special \u20ac1 meals for struggling students and reduce welfare aid for housing. \u201cWe\u2019re also protesting about the conditions in the heatwave,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was unbearable sitting exams in 35C-40C heat, even the teachers said those were impossible conditions.\u201dHe said the demonstrations were likely to continue. \u201cYoung people just want to study and learn in decent conditions. The French state seems surprised about worsening school results, but they\u2019re doing nothing to remedy that.\u201d"
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