Will the uniform ever return to classrooms?
Questioned on the subject on Wednesday evening by the RN, the Minister of Education and Youth, Pap Ndiaye, did not close the door to
“a working group which is looking into the subject”
at the National Assembly .
Currently,
"there is no ban on wearing a uniform, but there is no national instruction"
, he recalled before the education commission of the Bourbon Palace.
Overseas students
"wear uniforms"
and
"are doing very well"
, points to the academic as proof.
At the initiative of the question, the deputy RN Caroline Parmentier - whose group recently taxed the minister of
"communitarian"
-, considers that the uniform would make it possible to fight against
"the excesses"
of radical Islamism.
313 attacks on secularism, from kindergarten to high school, were recorded in September 2022, of which 54% related to
“wearing of signs and outfits”
.
Pap Ndiaye had recognized Friday, September 30 an
“increase in reports”
, referring
“in particular” to
an increase in reports concerning
“the famous abayas”
.
A proposal by Eric Ciotti
If he therefore says he is in favor of a working group, the minister nevertheless asks for
“tangible elements”
before deciding the question.
“We must not think that the uniform would be an answer which would make it possible to resolve the question of secularism”
, he already warned on Sunday on the set of the “Grand Jury RTL-Le-Figaro-LCI”.
The tenant of Rue de Grenelle also refused to establish
"a catalog of clothing arrangements which, moreover, would be foiled the next day"
.
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Very active on the issue, Éric Ciotti wishes to extend the single uniform throughout the territory.
After having denounced a
“form of culpable cowardice”
on the part of the minister, the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes announced on Friday October 14 on RMC that he would table a bill to
“prohibit all religious clothing at school”
.
The wearing of the uniform must in this sense restore a
"form of republican social equality"
, judges the ex-finalist of the LR congress.
In 2017, Emmanuel Macron said he was
"thinking" about
the return of the uniform, without deciding since the debate.
The Head of State, however, recalled in 2021 the importance of
“decent dress”
after the heated controversies over the wearing of miniskirts and “crop tops” at school.