Delphine Girard, teacher and vice-president of the République Secularism Committee, gives a personal account of her experience with a former student to whom she failed to explain the 2004 law. Girard: "How could they, all, have the maturity to understand that a law which forces them today to dress or to communityize allows them to protect their minds tomorrow?" "There must be many of us on Asma's journey to give her the same speech if we want secularism to still be able to continue its work of emancipation through school"