LR boss Eric Ciotti wants to experiment with wearing a uniform in the colleges of his Alpes-Maritimes department, he announced At Sunday newspaper in the wake of recent announcements by the Minister of Education.
While Gabriel Attal said he was in favor of such experiments at the end of July “if the educational community of an establishment” requests it, Eric Ciotti pleads for him to “move quickly” and “generalize the return of the uniform”. “We want to launch an experiment in this direction, in the colleges of the Alpes-Maritimes, in agreement with the president of the departmental council”, indicates the deputy of this department, affirming to have “raised this candidacy with Gabriel Attal”.
On the same position as the RN mayors
Eric Ciotti thus joins the request of the mayor (RN) of Perpignan Louis Aliot, who proposed Thursday the establishment of a uniform outfit in the schools of the city, and that of the mayor of Béziers Robert Ménard, who had expressed at the beginning August his wish to experiment with wearing a uniform in his municipality.
In this interview at JDDthe President of the Republicans delivers in passing a vote of satisfaction for the recent decision to ban the abaya in schools, a long garment considered by the government as an ostentatious religious sign and therefore contrary to the law.
“But I believe that we must go further by protecting the school outside the walls: we must prohibit the wearing of religious symbols for the parents of accompanying students during school outings”, pleads the person concerned, taking up a proposal recurring member of his political family.
“Reinstate the 2009 law”
On the eve of the start of the new school year, Eric Ciotti is also campaigning to “restore the 2009 law” (passed in 2010, applied until 2013) which he had initiated “allowing the abolition of family allowances for resigning parents and better support for parents in difficulty through a “parental responsibility contract”.
Calling to “rehabilitate diplomas and grades”, the boss of LR also asks to make obtaining the patent of colleges “a compulsory passage to pass in second”.
“Similarly, we cannot tolerate that some children arrive at college barely knowing how to read. Let’s restore an end of primary school exam as a gateway to 6th grade, ”he pleads.