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From sexual violence to mobile phones, what's changing for French pupils?

From sexual violence to mobile phones, what's changing for French pupils?
France 24 Tuesday 01 September 2026, 13:56 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. From sexual violence to mobile phones, what's changing for French pupils? France Issued on: Share Millions of French students are heading back to school this week and with that comes a host of new rules for what will be the last school year of Emmanuel Macron's presidency. From phone bans to exam schedules, Camille Knight takes a look at what's changing in the French school system, and why those changes are being put in place.
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