The Department of Alpes-Maritimes presents uniform for middle school students of five establishments in the region. White and blue, with the establishment's inscription on the chest or heart, the unique outfit is simple and casual.
The outfits were unveiled within the walls of the Alphonse-Daudet college, in Nice, in the presence of the deputy and president of the Republicans, Éric Ciotti. And the Riviera parliamentarian recalled his wish to enshrine the experiment in law - initiated by the short-lived Minister of National Education, Gabriel Attal, last September. Each school student will be given a total of nine pieces at the start of the school year: two short-sleeved polo shirts, one long-sleeve polo shirt, and a white shirt with a blue stripe. The creation was entrusted to the Fil Rouge company, located in the heart of the Capelette district in Marseille, with materials certified "guaranteed French origin." Charles Ange Ginésy said: Wearing a uniform by students would nip any unnecessary quarrels in the bud. “The unique outfit will be neither a miracle cure nor a simple artifice but a symbol through which our young people will be able to become more united around the model of the republican school and meritocracy, he said. President of LR and deputy for Alpes-Maritimes Éric Ciotti also sees in this approach a form of respect for the rule and more broadly for authority, whether first of the master, of the teacher, and later of the police officer, for example. There is this need to reestablish at the heart of the Republic and the educational model this beautiful word "authority." “A school in difficulty is the France of tomorrow which is in danger. Everything lies in the school, the transmission of knowledge,’ he insisted. “The unique outfit will tomorrow be part of this strong signal to reaffirm our most essential republican principles and this major requirement of secularism.