Uniform at school: Pap Ndiaye “opposes a law that would impose an outfit for all students”

Should the uniform be enforced at school? No, according to Pap Ndiaye. Questioned by France Info on Friday, the Minister of National Education said he was “against a law that would address or impose dress code for all students.”

“Secularism issues are not just about religious dress,” he says. These “do not prevent supplements” nor “evade the 2004 law” that guarantees respect for the principle of secularism in public schools, colleges and secondary schools.

“Naive”

“In addition, I remind you that today nothing prevents an establishment of this type from imposing the school uniform, even on the public,” Pap Ndiaye also insisted. And add: “It is done overseas, for example, in a totally generalized way.”

“It would be very naive to think that a uniform would come to settle the issues of secularism”, according to him.

Still, the issue feeds the debate. In question, the number of attacks on secularism caused by the use of clothing of a religious nature. At France Info, Pap Ndiaye recorded 353 reports in November, a “decrease compared to October (720 reports)”. Among these attacks, “for 40%, they are clothing, attire, religious signs or with religious intent,” the minister said.

Some elected representatives of the majority have addressed the issue. le figaro thus he revealed on November 18 that certain renaissance deputies were going to present to his group a bill to establish a “common school uniform”. It was then a question of favoring “equality” and therefore of fighting against “school bullying”.

An RN bill in early 2023

Proof that the issue does not reach consensus in the presidential field, the renaissance deputy Olga Givernet had reacted by a platform in the JDD deplore the return of the school uniform debate. At the moment, Renaissance is working on the issue, but has not submitted a bill, we found out in Marianne.

However, sooner or later this question will come back to the table. After being proposed during the LR congress by the three candidates for the party’s presidency -Aurélien Pradié was even in favor of wearing a uniform at the university before finally backing down-, it will be the subject of a bill during the niche parliamentarian of the National Rally on January 12.