Famous Climate Activist Joins French Students Asking for Better Schools

Greta Thunberg, 23, stood with French high school students outside their school, Lycée Paul Éluard, in Saint-Denis on Oct. 13. Thunberg became famous as a teenager for skipping school to demand climate action. She backed students protesting for three weeks about too few teachers, packed classrooms and run-down buildings, drawing world attention to a French school problem.