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Secularism: why the education minister should worry

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TRIBUNE – The education minister must take strong measures in the face of attacks on secularism in schools, believes Aline Girard, of the Laïque Unit.





By Aline Girard*

Bust of Marianne at Youth HQ with Macron (JAM) in January 2022.
Bust of Marianne at Youth HQ with Macron (JAM) in January 2022.
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” PTo respond to this phenomenon, we still need to measure it well and evaluate it well on a national scale”, said the Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye, cautiously, regarding the distortions to secularism in schools measured monthly by his Department. National of Secularism of December 9, 2022, Ifop has published an important survey that includes Point was widely echoed, aiming to evaluate the scope and evolution of these attacks on the principle of religious neutrality in schools.

By allowing the problems that are not reported to the administration to be measured, the Ifop study shows that the reports filed by the ministry and published monthly are just the tip of the iceberg of a larger religious push…


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