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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Pupils will be banned from wearing abayas, loose-fitting full-length robes worn by some Muslim women, in France's state-run schools, the education minister has said.

The rule will be applied as soon as the new school year starts on 4 September.

France has a strict ban on religious signs in state schools and government buildings, arguing that they violate secular laws.

Wearing a headscarf has been banned since 2004 in state-run schools.

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[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 year ago

And here in sweden the justice system has to dole out yearly reminders to schools that dressing freely is protected by the constitution, and dress codes or uniforms are literally illegal.

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

That’s….amazing tbh

[-] duviobaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's amazing, why don't we have something like this in Germany

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

God that sounds dreadful. I used to get mocked outside of school for wearing poor clothes when I was young. Imagine having to deal with that literally all the time.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah here in sweden we have welfare so everyone can afford basics like that.

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

We have welfare too. Doesn't change the fact that people on welfare aren't regularly buying expensive clothing. Same goes for Sweden.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

i thought you meant that they had ragged clothes, people don't really flaunt expensive clothes that much here.

any bad treatment in schools here is generally just down to kids having bad home environments and taking it out on those they percieve as weaker, or kids having undiagnosed autism/adhd and having trouble with being social so they just sorta get forgotten about.

You don't generally get bullied for being poor here because you don't generally really notice that people are poor, and with high living standards there simply ends up being less bullying.

[-] Darthjaffacake@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm really sorry to hear you have that experience that sounds awful, the concept of poor clothes doesn't exist everywhere though so I'm not really sure what to say, I really wish I could've worn whatever I liked at school since I had to wear coats in summer at the cost of my health (my skin kinda sucks ngl) and the uniform they asked us to buy was so expensive and ill fitting. Again, you've got a different experience and I respect that.

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