Belgium requires a controversial class program. Now schools are burning and the country is worried

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN
Associated Press

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium authorities are getting worried by a series of school arsons believed to be connected to newly mandatory school sessions in some parts of the country. Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden said Friday the attacks in the French-speaking Wallonia region must stop after another school was set on fire on Thursday night. It was the sixth in the Charleroi area since the start of the week. Evidence has been found of a protest against the Evras program, described as four hours of training to help students develop their relational and sexual lives.