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France's Classrooms Empty As Students Take To The Streets
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Nearly 90,000 students, teachers and parents marched across France on Tuesday as a fortnight of school protests became a nationwide day of action over missing teachers, long days and crumbling buildings. A student union said 1,800 of the country's 3,700 high schools were blockaded or shut for the day. Officials report 6,100 arrests, mostly minors, and hundreds injured, while Amnesty has criticised the police response.
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