French Education Minister Warns Students May Fail Exams After School Closures

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Édouard Geffray, the French Minister of Education, has warned that this academic year poses a risk for graduating students due to several weeks of missed classes resulting from school closures, preventing them from completing assignments and studying for final exams. More than 41 high schools across the country were closed on Monday, November 2nd. However, student unions claim that 150 schools were affected. In Montpellier, Senator Hussein Bourgi criticized the government's actions after a video showed a 53-year-old nurse being arrested by police. Nathanaël Combary, from the student union Renouveau Lycéen, stated that protests are the only way to pressure the Macron government.