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last i saw they were mostly interested in firing stun grenades at children

As a result of that horrible incident of a student losing their hand, the government suspended the use of certain weapons and stun grenades.

The French gov't also announced the "Five Point Plan". There are lots of good details here[1].

[1] https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/05/from-school-blockades-to...

wild that it requires children to be permanently maimed before the cops stop shooting at them, but there you go.

then again, it's wild that it took such large scale protests for Lecornu to commit to filling long-vacant teaching posts, ensuring school buildings are fit for human occupation with functioning sanitary facilities, and implementing basic reforms to the notoriously bad university application system. my expectations from Matignon were always low but,

Do you know the root cause of these issues? Example: Is teacher pay too low so they cannot attract quality candidates? Or just general under-funding of public schools?

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