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As French students speak out, will Australian school children follow suit?

Although overseas student protests are occurring within specific contexts, they remind us that students are not passive about educational change.

Many of us have been watching developments in France with concern. Around 450,000 high school students and parents are demonstrating – in what Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has described as the most violent student protests in decades. Students’ demands have centred on school understaffing and cuts to public education funding.

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