Soon a uniform in schools, colleges and secondary schools in France? This is what Sabrina Agresti-Roubache, the new secretary of state in charge of the city, wants, who on Tuesday declared herself “very favorable” to the experimentation of a “school team”, but only “in priority neighborhoods for urban policy”.
“I am not in favor of the generalization” of such a measure, he explained before the LCI microphone.
Sabrina Agresti-Roubache believes, however, that “school equipment” in these “very complicated and working-class neighborhoods” would eliminate “a mental burden for parents” and “reduce inequalities.”
Neighborhoods identified according to per capita income
The priority neighborhoods for urban policy, also called “QPV”, “are all defined by a concentration of low-income people,” it can be read on the website of the National Urban Policy Observatory. “In mainland France, Martinique and Réunion, they have been identified according to a single criterion, that of per capita income,” adds INSEE.
In metropolitan France there are more than 1,200 priority neighborhoods for urban policy. To find out if an address enters the system, the government has created a specific site.
Sabrina Agresti-Roubache explains that a law would not be necessary to establish the “school uniform” in the affected establishments, stating that rectors and directors can modify the internal regulations of their college or secondary school to introduce such a measure.
“A poor uniform for poor neighborhoods”
Viewed nearly a million times on X (formerly Twitter), the excerpt sparked strong reactions. “Put poor children in uniform: that’s the government’s new idea”, criticized Ian Brossat, spokesman for the PCF.
“A uniform of the poor for the neighborhoods of the poor,” wrote Olivier Faure, first secretary of the PS.
The issue of school uniforms is not new. Appointed Minister of National Education and Youth, Gabriel Attal spoke in July on this issue, speaking in favor of an experiment for establishments that so wish.
Brigitte Macron, wife of the President of the Republic, spoke in January. “It erases the differences, we save time (it’s a lot of time to choose how to dress in the morning) and money (compared to brands). That’s why I am in favor of wearing school uniforms, but with a simple and not sad dress,” she had declared.
Source: BFM TV
