Explain the following:

The government made the Saigon Native Girls School take back the students it had expelled.

The government made the Saigon Native Girls School take back the students it had expelled as protest broke out the government forced the school to take the children back. The protest began in 1926 in the Saigon Native Girls School, when a Vietnamese girl sitting in one of the front seats was asked to vacate the seat for a local French student and when she refuse, she was expelled from the school. Other students supporting her were also expelled. Now open protests started. To control the situation the students were taken back. These kinds of incidents only inspired the people and students of Vietnam to come together so, by the 1920s, students started forming various political parties, like the Party of Young Annan, and published several nationalist journals such as the Annanese Student. Thus Schools become important place for political and culture battles. The battle against French colonial education system became part of the larger battle against colonialism and for independence.


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