What to expect from school protests rattling France's government

PARIS -- After a weekend lull, high schoolers in France are expected back at the barricades this coming week in their protest movement that is rattling the government of President Emmanuel Macron.A key question is whether violence on the margins of the demonstrations will worsen, blurring the lines between protest and rioting, and whether Macron's government will ratchet up the already muscular response by police. According to the interior minister, officers made more than 5,000 arrests last week, 85% of them minors. Hundreds have been injured.A test of the movement's endurance and appeal will come Tuesday, when the influential CGT labor union is urging workers to demonstrate, too.Here's what to know: Protests first erupted in the Paris region in mid-September. Teachers and students mobilized against a lack of staff at a lycée, or high school, in Creteil, in the southeastern outskirts of the French capital. From there, class strikes, blockades and demonstrations spread to other Paris suburbs and then nationwide, with protests even in high schools of smaller towns.Hundreds of schools have had to close because of damage or attacks that targeted staff, according to the education minis...