SocietyFrance’s back-to-school challenges: Phones, payslips and pupils

Most of France’s 11.6 million pupils have moved past the nerves of the first school day, but this year’s rentrée brings several challenges and changes. They include phone bans, concerns about sexual abuse, teachers’ pay and 161,000 fewer students linked to the country’s declining birthrate.

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