# Amid French school protests, students seek 'respect, dignity and decent working conditions'

https://mins.news/en/item/83333

- France 24, 2026-10-02 10:02 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.france24.com/en/amid-french-school-protests-students-seek-respect-dignity-and-decent-working-conditions

> Sociologist and Paris VIII University professor Éric Fassin says the student protests are above all a demand for equality, dignity and recognition. Students from working-class suburbs are seeking the basic conditions needed to study and, ultimately, the same opportunities as students elsewhere. The movement has spread beyond the Paris suburbs while retaining its social, political and democratic meaning, amid France’s longer history of repressing social movements.

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