France Student Protests Grow Into National Crisis

Students started protesting at a school north of Paris.

The protests then spread to other parts of France.

The article describes this as the country’s biggest student protest wave in decades.

Many schools have had to close.

Police have taken more than 6,000 people into custody over the past few weeks.

Most of those people are under 18.

The article says most had no earlier criminal records.

The protests have become a national crisis.