BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Thousands of Belgian parents camped in cold, wet weather Thursday to enroll their children in French-speaking schools under a new first-come, first-served registration system.
Families set up impromptu camp sites outside school gates, with police in attendance to keep the peace ahead of the start of registration for next year’s school term Friday.
“I am doing this for my daughter,” said Thierry Colin, a navy officer drinking soup at the end of a queue of tents and improvised shacks in front of the prestigious St. Michel secondary school in Brussels.
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