# Fires burn as French students protest lack of investment in education

https://mins.news/en/video/83830

- Guardian News, 2026-10-02 16:31 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfRvvwz8_w0

> Thousands of teenagers demonstrated outside schools and education buildings in Paris on Friday, protesting inadequate state funding, overcrowded classes, deteriorating facilities, poor teacher pay and staff absences. They also condemned an unequal system in which social background determines educational success, deepening France’s worst government crisis in months.

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