The education minister says female Muslim students will not be allowed to wear the loose-fitting robe.

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.

  • mycroft@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2417·
    10 months ago

    Nah, girls just won’t be sent to schools.

    This will be “the last straw” for many of their fathers.

    Some will go, and their parents will begrudgingly accept (or turn a blind eye to their daughter dressing down as soon as she’s near school.). The majority reaction will be similar to what you see in other nations that don’t respect women enough to let them keep their autonomy.

    • babeuh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      272·
      10 months ago

      That’ll get the fathers at least 6 months in prison in France, probably more for negligence etc.

      And homeschooling requires a very good reason why they can’t go to school (pretty much always a health condition, and that needs proof) there are annual inspections and every other year the reason for homeschooling is verified.

    • hh93@lemm.eeEnglish
      221·
      10 months ago

      Just not sending the children isn’t an option in pretty much every place in Europe