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For Whom the School Bell Tolls
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Four students out of a class of nearly 50 sit patiently but dejectedly on the floor outside my university classroom. They are waiting for something they have a right to: an education. But the door itself has been double-locked by the janitors, all the furniture removed from inside, and here, at the French university where I normally teach, there will be little, or no, education taking place today as was the case yesterday and the week before. That's because a significant number of students have been en grève on strike protesting against the modest but to...