EDUCATION The long black robe and vest knee-length of the teenager would be a ” ostentatious religious sign “…
The length of her dress was a” religious ostentatious sign “after the headmaster. Tuesday, a pupil of the Flora Tristan first high school in Montereau-Fault-Yonne (Seine-et-Marne), was prevented from entering the establishment.
The day before, the teenager had been warned by the manager that her dress was not allowed in high school. Converted to Islam a year ago, the girl also wears the veil, it removes every morning before enter in progress. The teenager had also been the subject of an investigation by the staff of the establishment on the occasion of his conversion, as provided by the procedure
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Yet, according to Marie-Christine de Sousa’s mother the high school, the headmaster has banned access to the property to his daughter “without explaining why him,” she told the Obs , adding that she had also denied a written justification for the ban on her daughter to enter high school.
If mediation is scheduled between the school and the family, this latest announcement will complain. “My daughter respects the law,” said Marie-Christine de Sousa. The Academy of Creteil takes his side to specify that the student “has NOT been excluded from the establishment” and that “a long dress is not a reason for exclusion.”
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As a reminder, although the Council of State has not yet ruled on the question of long skirts, the 2004 law stipulates that “in schools, colleges and public high schools, the wearing of signs or clothes by which pupils overtly manifest a religious affiliation is prohibited. . “
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