The truth about French high school blockades (pls click)
I just wanted to explain about the “blockades”, as you saw in my previous threads, I mentioned there was fire, but I explained it badly. Actually, you see, the goal of the blockades is just to skip class, block the high school entrance, and protest because people do blockades to complain about the French school system, which I honestly find awful, and everyone agrees on that point.
But when the blockades started, some people took advantage of it to smash things, burn things, etc., even though the goal is just to block things, for example, putting out trash cans (because if they don't do that, they won't get noticed). So there are people who came and ruined this image by destroying and damaging things.
Yet sometimes it can actually be really funny and fun; for example, people do dance battles, they dress up in costumes, and we've even had members of parliament (députés in French) come out to support them!
It's just that certain individuals take advantage of it to break things, so the people who just came to demonstrate get their image ruined by rioters. Sure, they might do things like pile up trash cans, but not burn them, or definitely not smash bus stops!
Anyway, I just wanted to clear things up. I support blockades and protesting, but not the breaking and burning.
