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10,000 one-room schoolhouses in France closed.
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And what this does is it causes unemployment for schoolteachers
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but many of them can stay on in other capacities.
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But it means that there are long bus rides;
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they are already long bus rides
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because many departements don't have that many high schools
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and you've got to take buses in order to get to the high schools,
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and that sort of thing.
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And that is sad
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because that's a wonderful way to grow up, in these schools.
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And that's part of regional identity
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and village identity that's going to disappear.