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Students and teachers march in France on biggest day of high school protests

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Here's why they're angry CNNHow dilapidated are French schools and how bad is inequality in the education system?

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The rallies are a test of the strength of the student-led protest movement that has closed hundreds of French high schools since late September.

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Hundreds of schools in France blockaded in biggest day of student protests so far

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Nearly 2,000 schools closed in France as students, parents protest.

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French students, parents and teachers continued protesting into a third week, saying their schools are falling apart.

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Students, parents and trade unions have taken to the streets in protests across France today, forcing hundreds of schools to close over what protesters describe as chronic under-investment in schools and universities across the nation.France's interior ministry estimated some 86,000 people had joined protests across more than 30 towns and cities, with tens of thousands more expected to march in Marseille, Nice, Nantes, Lyon and Paris.The Union Syndicale Lycéenne (USL), one of the groups organising the protests, said 1,800 high schools were either blockaded or closed by the Education Ministry, and claimed that 90 per cent of universities were blockaded.Meanwhile, the French government has reported a considerably lower figure, saying classes had been suspended either fully or partially at 891 schools across France.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Regardless, the USL said the mobilisation had reached "a new record", and follow a week of increasingly tense confrontations between students...

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