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High school students in Paris’ deprived suburbs spark national protest movement - NBC News - FB体育竞猜平台

Protesters said schools in poor ‌neighborhoods like theirs faced the worst conditions as the French government announced deeply unpopular spending cuts in its 2027 budget. Maisa, a 17-year-old in a poor Paris suburb who aspires to be an English teacher, joined tens of thousands of other students and their supporters this week in protests that spread across France over ​dilapidated schools, classroom overcrowding and teacher shortages. At Lycee Le Corbusier school in Aubervilliers, a suburb north of Paris in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, protesters said schools in poor ‌neighborhoods like theirs faced the worst conditions. “Last year I took the high school French exam without a French teacher, and teachers have a huge impact,” Maisa said. “The education ⁠authority is not investing enough in the suburbs. The nationwide demonstrations and blockades, which began last week, have become a political flashpoint at a sensitive moment for the government, which announced a series of deeply unpopular spending cuts in its 2027 budget on Thursday.