French high schoolers barricaded schools and faced tear gas across the country Thursday, marking the fourth straight round of nationwide protests that the government has failed to stop — and a signs-of-failure moment for another Western regime that can't deliver for its own people.
The stakes are plain: when a state turns riot police on its own teenagers over learning conditions and cost-of-living failures, the contract between rulers and ruled is broken. France is flashing a warning that the whole globalist West should heed.
Police fired tear gas at students who dragged rubbish bins into barricades outside the Lycée Hélène Boucher in northeastern Paris, according to France 24. At the Lycée Voltaire in the 11th arrondissement, students held a general assembly before marching to Place de la République. Students told France 24 their teachers backed them and that they were
