The incident in the northwestern city of Rennes is the latest in a growing number of incidents that have raised tensions in the French education system.
Teachers at a school outside Paris refused to work as the establishment grappled with a crisis sparked by the showing in class of a painting containing several nude women.
President Macron then rejected the offer from interior minister Gérald Darmanin to step down, instead ordering him to find new ways to break the deadlock and push the legislation through.
France's President Macron wants to reform immigration law with stricter deportation measures; the new proposed legislation will be debated in the National Assembly this Monday.
Critics say the president breached France’s long-standing history of secularism after he attended a Hanukkah ceremony in the Élysée Palace on Thursday.
Former presidential candidate Marine Le Pen will in March be joined by 26 other members of her party in the dock, all accused of setting up a system for embezzling EU money to hire staff in France.
Police n Strasbourg said 48 people had been scammed altogether, many of them women over 90, having been tricked into paying thousands of euros for bedbug treatment they did not need.
The Programme for International Student Assessment international study has revealed an "historic" decline in French students' proficiency in mathematics and a significant drop in reading comprehension; now minister wants to introduce new final exams "dedicated to mathematics and scientific culture".
French president Emmanuel Macron was furious when the Morrison government ditched France's Naval Group in favour of acquiring nuclear-powered submarines from the United States and United Kingdom under the AUKUS pact.
Two other people were injured and treated by emergency services, with neither found to be in a life-threatening condition.
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