Students in northeastern Paris gathered Thursday to protest outside a high school, with police responding using tear gas.

French students sang a rap referencing terror attacks during protests, prompting investigations in two separate incidents.

High school students and their supporters swarmed France’s historic Place de la Bastille on Thursday in their latest violent clash with police — as fuming protesters blasted the Ministry of Education’s pledge for change as “hot air.

The protesting students accused the university administration of negligence and demanded chief warden’s removal

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu addressed the nation on Wednesday evening in an effort to ease the crisis, promising the government would share a plan to respond to the situation by the end of October.

The rallies are a test of the strength of the student-led protest movement that has closed hundreds of French high schools since late September.

The escalating unrest over conditions in the lycée system has forced school closures across France and left hundreds of people injured.