On the one hand, France flares up every few years for some reason or other. It's their way.
On the other, students protesting education quality don't burn down schools.
On the third hand, the prevalence of Palestine flags and slogans like "Free Palestine" belies the premise that this is a protest over education. It might have been at the beginning, but as happens with so many protests, the radical Left has hijacked it for the omnicause.
Whatever it's about, it lost all credibility the moment the first window got broken.