PARIS, France – French students set fire to bins and erected blockades outside schools in several cities, protesting overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and crumbling facilities. Several school principals were injured, harassed or assaulted during blockades at high schools on Thursday, according to reports from regional education authorities, prefectures and union representatives. Police have already detained hundreds of protesters at the lycees, which students aged 15 to 18 attend for their final three years of secondary education in France. READ: School blockades: Hundreds detained in France, says minister The interior ministry said police and gendarmes had made 1,949 arrests on Thursday, while […]...

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