This is The Guardian.
Today, the teenage protests taking over France.
This morning I heard children singing the national anthem
and grabbing everyone's bins and wheeling them down the street with trolleys to build barricades.
You can hear that, you can also sometimes hear fireworks being fired outside demonstrations.
It depends where you live.
If you're near a high school, you will, before dawn, see children piling up bins as barricades
and standing up there, and often with riot police standing by.
Riot police versus the kids.
Thousands arrested, hundreds injured.
It's been a shocking week for France.
Schools have been closed, ransacked, some have simply been burnt down.
Kids are fed up with the status quo, and they're furious about a school system that they say is failing them.
I mean, they do not have enough teachers to accommodate all those studying that they should be doing,
or any means for nurses, I mean, just for basic needs in, like, a school at all.
They have rats, I mean, even their schools are falling down, I mean,
they don't have any means to work and to, like, be able to study later on.
It began with outrage over shoddy school conditions in the banlieue, the deprived suburbs on the outskirts of Paris.
But the movement has grown into something much bigger, fueled by this feeling
that no one cares and that their lives are only going to get worse.