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<p> Since the very end of March, there have been increasing amounts of schools occupations throughout France. Provoked by the suppression of nearly 16,000 teaching posts, the closure of classes, the threatened closure of some of these schools and the consequent increases in class sizes, these occupations have been particularly concentrated on infant schools and primary schools, but have also included &quot;Middle Schools&quot; (&quot;Collèges&quot; for 11 to 14 or 15-year-olds) and those lycées with &quot;Collèges&quot; attached to them. Though it&#039;s hard to gauge how many occupations there have been, it must be at least 250. </p>

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<p> Starting off with just a 3 hour occupation at the end of March in an infant school in a village called Kernéval, south of Brest in the North West, this has spread throughout the country, with all night occupations lasting several days, often with parties, barbecues and the parents sleeping in tents in the playgrounds. </p>

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