A major 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 refused, she was expelled from the school. When angry students protested, they too were expelled. Now open protests started. To control the situation the students were taken back. 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. Schools thus became an important place for political and cultural battles. The battle against French colonial education system became part of the larger battle against colonialism and for independence.
