Secularism: high school principals faced with an explosion in the wearing of disputed outfits

It’s a veil that rises on the reality of attacks on secularism in colleges and high schools. A investigation of the main union of heads of establishment, the SNPDEN-Unsa, made public on Wednesday, describes a worrying reality.

Of the 10,700 colleges and high schools, 1,000 responded to the survey. When asked whether school heads noticed, between September and January, the presence of students entering a school with an abaya or a qamis – these long clothes worn respectively by women and men -, 72% principals of general and technological high schools responded positively. “It’s huge”, we comment to the SNPDEN even if its secretary general, Bruno Bobkiewicz, specifies that “those who answered are perhaps those who are most concerned by this question of secularism”.