政府措手不及，面对数月来最严重的危机，难以应对大规模示威活动。
在巴黎东北部，数十名学生坐在堆叠的垃圾桶上，封锁了一所高中的入口。
17岁的索菲亚（Sophia）通常此时正在上西班牙语课，但她此刻正身处路障的最前线。
Government struggling to deal with worst crisis in months after being taken by surprise by massive demonstrations As dozens of school pupils sat on top of a pile of wheelie bins blocking a high school entrance in north-eastern Paris, Sophia, 17, was on the frontline of the barricade, when she would normally have been attending Spanish class.
这位不愿透露真实姓名的巴黎伏尔泰高中（Lycée Voltaire）高三学生表示：“我们希望这能发展成一个庞大的青年抗议运动。”
“We hope this grows into a massive youth protest movement,” said the final year baccalaureate student at Paris’s Lycée Voltaire, who did not want her real name published.
这是她连续第二天与数百人一起封锁学校入口，确保所有课程取消。“我们只是想被政府倾听。与其在恶劣的环境中学习，我们宁愿站在这里做这件事。这是让我们被听到的唯一途径。”
She was on her second day of blocking the school entrance along with hundreds of others, ensuring all lessons were cancelled. “We just want to be listened to by the government. We’d rather stand here doing this than have to learn in poor conditions. It’s the only way to make ourselves heard.”