Internal regulations state that the initiation of disciplinary proceedings must be preceded by a dialogue with the student.
For no matter what one thinks about the veil, forcing women to take it off is no better than forcing them to wear it, both ways are discriminatory and undemocratic. On March 15, , President Jacques Chirac signed a law that prohibited "the wearing of symbols or clothing by which students conspicuously manifest a religious appearance" in French public primary and secondary schools.
Forty-five of the forty-eight students expelled in the four months following the implementation of the ban were Muslim girls who refused to remove their headscarves when entering public school. This disparate impact on Muslim girls should come as no surprise. The debates preceding the passage of the ban witnessed two central justifications for such a law: the need to protect laicite and the fight to end the oppression of Muslim girls.
The "Stasi Commission," a group of prominent scholars, government officials, and educators commissioned by President Chirac to study laicite in France, set forth the most articulate expression of both arguments in its report. Use this link to get back to this page. From the Stasi Commission to the European court of human rights: l'affaire du foulard and the challenge of protecting the rights of Muslim girls.
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