(Radio France) French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer has promised to back teachers, pupils and parents who expose breaches of the country’s law on secularism in schools, as he reported figures on infringements in the past year.
Blanquer made his promise on Tuesday during a meeting in Paris with administrators of the guidelines in the country’s schools and colleges.
“Let no one, neither a teacher, nor a headmaster, a pupil or a parent feel alone, isolated, without a solution when a violation of secularism occurs,” Blanquer said.
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His comments come after his department revealed 935 infringements of the law between September 2019 and March 2020.
