Police fired tear gas at protesters outside French high schools as students, teachers and parents took to the streets in the most violent school protests in decades. Juliette Jabkhiro reports ▻ ↧ School protests sweeping France cause 'heaviest toll in decades' Demonstrations swept across France on Tuesday as teachers and parents took to the streets with high school pupils on the biggest day of what Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu described as the most ​violent student demonstrations in decades.