By Sumayya
At least 75 students who joined a school blockade last week at École polyvalente de Saint-Jérôme, which is about an hour away from Montreal, have been kicked out of classes until next Friday by the school’s bosses.
A local news team confirmed this information with the Centre de services scolaire de la Rivière-du-Nord. “Workers are still trying
to figure out exactly what each student did during the event,” the school center stated.
“The full details of the bad behavior will be shared later this week.” This all happened after a massive group of teenagers caused
wild trouble last Friday by starting a gathering that was copied from the high school student protests currently happening across
France.
According to the school staff, 2,000 students joined in on the protest, forcing local police officers to come in and control the
crowd. The school has a total of 3,400 children.
Videos posted on social media sites show absolute craziness on the school grounds, inspired by the violent events over in France.
Even with all the chaos, Mélissa Bossé, a speaker for the Saint-Jérôme police department, stated on Monday that nobody reported
any real fights or major property damage.
However, she noted that some teenagers did push and shove each other, and some people knocked over trash cans. A student at the
large high school also shared that some kids were throwing garbage bins at each other and running wildly through the hallways.
The school bosses say they have now set up new rules to stop future blockades, including hiring private security guards to watch
the building.
