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Added on the 04/10/2021 11:47:11 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Smiles are back on the faces of French school children again after a government announcement concerning the wearing of masks: in this school in the Landes, 200 or so pupils from Year 2 to Year 6 can now come to class without masks. The Landes is one of 47 French regions where the obligation to wear masks for children has been lifted because the incidence rate of the virus has fallen below 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. IMAGES
Following a damming Pisa report card for French pupils, Education Minister Gabriel Attal wants to entry to high school be pending on passing an exam. Attal says the 'Brevet', currently a nation-wide test taken the last year of junior high school will now be used as a pass or fail exam to entre lycee. SOUNDBITE
An hour before classes resumed, pupils from the Gambetta secondary school in the northern town of Arras collected the wreaths laid outside the school in memory of the teacher killed and the two people injured in a knife attack four days earlier. IMAGES
After a two-week holiday, 12 million pupils return to school in France. At the Jean Jaurès secondary school in Cenon, classes begin with a tribute to Samuel Paty, the teacher who was beheaded on 16 October for having shown cartoons of Mohammed in class. IMAGES
French students collect their baccalaureate results at the Lycée Jean de la Fontaine in the 16th arrondissement in Paris. Most of France's 740,000 final-year students know their marks already due to disruptions caused by the coronavirus crisis. IMAGES
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