https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed More than 13,000 French high school pupils have signed a petition calling for the English section of the Baccalaureate exam to be cancelled because of “comprehension difficulties”. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160620/thousands-of-french-pupils-protest-hard-english-exam Mon, 20 Jun 2016 12:31:46 +0200 thousands-of-french-pupils-protest-hard-english-exam A prestigious Paris secondary school has been forced to ban pupils from using mobile phones after several boys began groping girls after reportedly watching online porn on their smartphones. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150707/paris-high-school-bans-phones-after-pron-scandal Tue, 07 Jul 2015 14:21:18 +0200 paris-high-school-bans-phones-after-pron-scandal Hundreds of French school children have fallen victim to a mystery sickness that has spread like wildfire through their school. All classes have been suspended and baffled health authorities have advised the school to close, while they try to determine the cause of the outbreak. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140410/mystery-illness-strikes-hundreds-of-french-school-pupils Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:05:00 +0200 mystery-illness-strikes-hundreds-of-french-school-pupils A court in southern France on Tuesday acquitted a teacher over her involvement in the death of an 11-year-old pupil who was found hanged in a school corridor after being sent out of the class for misbehaving. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131029/french-teacher-acquitted-over-pupils-hanging Tue, 29 Oct 2013 10:54:00 +0100 french-teacher-acquitted-over-pupils-hanging A schoolteacher went on trial in southern France on Tuesday, charged with manslaughter over an incident where one of her pupils, aged 11, was found hanged in the corridor, after she called him “useless” and sent him out of the classroom. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130924/pupil-found-hanged-after-being-sent-out-of-class Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:21:00 +0200 pupil-found-hanged-after-being-sent-out-of-class A French teacher has landed himself in hot water after allegedly showing a class of 11-year-olds the notoriously ultraviolent horror movie ‘Saw.’ It’s only the latest instance of outrageous recent behaviour by a French teacher. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130611/french-teacher-shows-young-pupils-horror-film-saw Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:14:00 +0200 french-teacher-shows-young-pupils-horror-film-saw France’s Education Minister Vincent Peillon has once again incurred the wrath of teaching unions, this time by stating his intention to cut the country's sacrosanct school summer holidays to six weeks by 2017. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130225/cut-summer-holidays-to-6-weeks-education-minister Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:55:00 +0100 cut-summer-holidays-to-6-weeks-education-minister