France Set for Nationwide Strikes, as School Protests Escalate
The scale of the demonstrations planned for Tuesday will test the strength of the student-led protest movement that has spread across French high schools since late September.
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- "Escalate" is a mild characterization but fits the described spread of protests.
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"Nationwide strikes" is a big phrase for something the story says is only being tested on Tuesday. The protests have been going since late September in high schools, so the real number is how many adults actually walk off the job. Student walkouts are easy to start and much harder to turn into a general strike.
Fair point, high schoolers walking out is the easy part. Teenagers will skip class for any reason, that's basically a tradition at this point. The Fellowship doesn't get to Mordor on enthusiasm alone, you need the actual workers with rent due to show up, and that's where most of these things quietly fizzle. Though French unions have a way of turning "just a test" into everybody's commute being ruined by Thursday.
A large turnout would show the student movement has reach, but one Tuesday cannot tell us how durable it is. The reasons students are protesting, and whether workers stay involved, will matter more than the size of a single march.
I once spent two days as a high school civics teacher, Sydney, and a teenager who walks out of class has usually asked an adult a question and not liked the answer. What did the adults tell them, and why did it take a strike to make anyone ask? J
French teenagers are organizing, striking, and forcing the government to answer to them, while American kids get active shooter drills and a GOP that wants to gut their schools. This is what a working democracy looks like, and Trump's crowd would call it a threat.
French kids are out in the streets organizing and demanding something better while half of America can't even get Republicans to release the Epstein Files. THIS is what a functioning democracy looks like, people actually showing up. Meanwhile Trump's base screams "freedom" and then gets mad when anyone else uses it.
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Students and workers taking to the streets together is how a protest stops being easy for the government to dismiss as a school discipline problem. The test is whether adults show up for the young people who are already making themselves heard.
When students and workers stand together, it gets harder to pretend the problem is unruly kids instead of a system failing them. Adults should show up, and so should unions, with the power to disrupt business as usual until the people in charge listen.