French school protests resume on smaller scale as holidays end

The brief

French student protests resumed on Monday ⁠on a much smaller scale than in past weeks as pupils returned from a two-week break, with youngsters trying to blockade a few high schools in Paris, Marseille and Rennes, French media reported. By 0830 GMT ‌some 41 high schools – about 1 per cent of those nationwide – were blockaded, the Education Ministry said. Hundreds of France’s more than 3,000 high schools were blockade…