Although I have reservations about proscription of clothing or jewellery of French Uni students (Let's face it, the whole point of Uni is to dress stupidly), I have seen the banning of visible religious clothing or jewewllery as a good thing in terms of their secualr education and in terms of reducing divisiveness in schools.
Forgive my ignorance but I always assumed that this was in the context of school uniforms. I have just found that, seemingly, French schools don't have uniforms. This means that students can't wear religious jewellery or clothing but can wear any old branded tat advertising sportswear companies for free that they "choose".
I realise that the French don't have the same concept as "school as a community" as we do so the idea of a uniform might be hard. I am also certainly not attacking the secular approach of their education but, if you are to ban certain objects that could allow inequality, then surely other that are divisive on social, financial and possibly racial lines should be as well.
Have I got this wrong and there are a lot of schools with uniforms or there just isn't a culture of wearing logoed clothing or football shirts, for instance?
Forgive my ignorance but I always assumed that this was in the context of school uniforms. I have just found that, seemingly, French schools don't have uniforms. This means that students can't wear religious jewellery or clothing but can wear any old branded tat advertising sportswear companies for free that they "choose".
I realise that the French don't have the same concept as "school as a community" as we do so the idea of a uniform might be hard. I am also certainly not attacking the secular approach of their education but, if you are to ban certain objects that could allow inequality, then surely other that are divisive on social, financial and possibly racial lines should be as well.
Have I got this wrong and there are a lot of schools with uniforms or there just isn't a culture of wearing logoed clothing or football shirts, for instance?
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