French unrest: Are we witnessing a new 'Yellow Vests' movement?

It's been 18 days since we first reported on isolated cases of school protests at high schools in Rennes in Brittany, in Caen in Normandy and Villeneueve d'Asque on the suburbs of Lille. The complaints were similar in theme: overloaded timetables, staffing problems and poor facilities. The protests then spread to Saint-Denis and Creteil on the outskirts of Paris days later; one interview with the students was seen 1.4 million times on TikTok. The movement gathered pace and morphed into what we've seen throughout the week: hundreds of protests, some peaceful, some with deeply distressing scenes.