(Radio France) France saw a drop in cases of students flouting France’s strict secularism rules, or laicite, at the start of this school year, according to the new education minister Anne Genetet, who also called for more training for teachers in how to address these issues.
In September, at the start of the 2024-2025 school year, schools reported 110 incidents of students wearing religious clothing and ostentatious religious signs, compared to 838 the year before, Genetet said in an interview with the Tribune Dimanche on Sunday.
“The drop is clear,” she said of breaches to France’s rules on secularism, called laicite.
