(Brussels Times) A proposal to ban teachers in public education from wearing religious symbols will be tabled in June by the education minister of the French Community Government, Valérie Glatigny (MR). She revealed the information to La Première on Friday.
The debate over religious and philosophical symbols in schools has been raised in recent weeks in several Brussels municipalities.
Team Fouad Ahidar has proposed allowing religious symbols in certain municipal schools, citing discrimination against Muslim teachers who wear headscarves and a shortage of teachers.
However, Glatigny sees this as a “step backwards in the neutrality of education” and plans to submit a proposal to the French Community Government in June to ban the wearing of religious symbols by teachers in the official school system.
