Questioned on this subject by a young person in a street of Condom (Gers), on the sidelines of a visit devoted to Heritage Days, the Head of State expressed his reluctance to answer him because “I’m not sure I have to get involved in everything”.
More “I understand the feeling” that creates the controversy launched by calls on social networks of middle school students to defend the wearing of the mini skirt or the « crop top » (Short T-shirt) prohibited in some establishments.
“There is clothing freedom” but it’s “A good thing that we try to keep some codes in college, in high school. Because afterwards you never know where it ends ”, commented Emmanuel Macron. “Common sense is better than a long regulation in this matter”, he added.
A “legal vagueness” surrounding these regulations
In the National Education, the control of clothing comes under the internal regulations of each establishment. But the National Union of High School Students (UNL), which supports the mobilization, pointed out “Legal vagueness” surrounding these regulations.
For Emmanuel Macron, young people must accept that parents and teachers “Explain rules”. “We’ve all been there and I don’t have the feeling that it has taken away some freedom from us”.
“I think that, all of us, we should keep a little common sense and not create controversy every week”, he concluded.
Movement #lundi14septembre: for Jean-Michel Blanquer, “you just need to dress normally” pic.twitter.com/zoQELCh2aO
— BFMTV (@BFMTV) September 14, 2020
Asked Monday, September 14, the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer had advocated “A position of balance and common sense”. “Just dress normally and everything will be fine”, he said. As soon as these words were spoken, the Minister of National Education was widely criticized on social networks.
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