France explodes again as students riot over education

School blockades and clashes intensify in France as frustration rises over government education policy.

Students acros France blockaded as many as 2,000 schools and hundreds of universities demanding government action on the crumbling education system.

Former State Department official Simon Hankinson joins ‘The Faulkner Focus’ to discuss growing riots in France as left-wing groups seize on the unrest in Paris.

When I was U.S. Consul General in Marseille, France from 2017–2020, I visited countless schools across the south. One was the Lycée de la Méditerranée, a high school in the city of La Ciotat on the Mediterranean coast.