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The French government plans to increase the number of third-level student places and make €4 billion ($4.5 billion) available for high-school renovations as it tries to end nationwide protests that have turned violent in recent weeks.

High-school students began to demonstrate in mid-September to denounce overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and outdated buildings. Their blockades and marches morphed into nationwide cost of living protests earlier this month that drew more than half a million people and descended into riots, arson and looting.

  • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.comEnglish
    17·
    7 hours ago

    The full article didn’t load for me, but weird how they can do this now. Not sure why they didn’t do this before people had to take to the streets. It’s like the government will do as little as possible until things finally reach a breaking point and once they found it are willing to give something up. Maybe if they took people’s issues seriously in the first place it wouldn’t have to get this bad.

    • Waterpumpee@lemmus.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      I don’t think this is gonna change anything. Long school days feel like jail. All the learning to not have a future because AI can do the stuff you learn at school better. Despite all that automation prices rise, retirement age rises wages stagnate. Politicians all over the world are missing to share the benefits of automating with their voters. Companies keep it all. Life should become easier due to this but it will be harder instead.

      Concretely the pupils see AI can solve their homework in 5s. Why learn all that rubbish then? It demotivates.

      • Polisheocket@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        2 minutes ago

        So you actually understand the concepts. Thats why you learn it. We had spreadsheets and calculators but still learned math. So you can be a functioning human

    • patruelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      8 hours ago

      Something has to give.

      The funding is not available, it needs to either be borrowed or taken from somewhere else.

      • Waterpumpee@lemmus.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Borrowed.

        Contractors will make bank. Banks will make bank. Interest and debt paid by gen Z/Alpha.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
        7·
        4 hours ago

        Or rich people can be taxed, that’s always an option. Or they can ignore oil lobbies and pump money into renewables to save money on gas imports. There are plenty of ways for a country like France to raise money when they want to do something.