In response to the mobilization of high school students, authorities have imposed restrictions through prefectural decrees and school closures, leading to widespread arrests and detentions. Students are demanding to study in dignified conditions and to be heard, but the authorities' response has been repressive rather than educational. Many students have been arrested, with some witnessing law enforcement using violence, including cases of a student being blinded, another strangled, and others chased. These incidents have raised concerns about institutional violence and the lack of resources and listening from the educational system. Students have denounced the lack of replacements, unsanitary buildings, and issues with thermal boilers and leaks, highlighting a degradation of the public education service. Their demands are diverse, reflecting a range of concerns and frustrations that have been building over years. The response from authorities, through repression and fear, has led to a message of distrust in institutions and a lasting path of distrust toward authority and the state. The treatment of young people varies, with some being considered children when it comes to "domesticate" them, but becoming suspects when they protest. A 12-year-old middle school student was deprived of freedom for three hours before his mother came to pick him up. Students argue that they are neither deaf nor blind, and political awareness is awakened through experiences of inequalities, beginning at school with the experience of segregation suffered or chosen. The article questions what kind of youth society wants: a youth that behaves well, as in Clichy in 2018, or an emancipated, fulfilled, solidarity, fraternal, and free youth. The struggle of the students is also that of their teachers, families, and citizens who desire a desirable and livable world. The article emphasizes the importance of listening and dialogue as pillars of democracy, stating that criminalizing youth is not listening to them, nor educating them, nor taking them seriously.