The case of a 15-year-old Muslim girl who was banned from a school in the northeastern French town of Charleville-Mezieres twice for wearing a long black skirt seen as too openly religious for secular France has sparked an outcry, the AFP (Agence France-Presse) website reports today (April 28, 2015).
The girl was stopped from going to class earlier this month by the head teacher who felt the long skirt -- popular among some Muslim women who cover their whole body -- "conspicuously" showed religious affiliation, which is banned in schools by France's strict secular laws.
"The girl was not excluded, she was asked to come back with a neutral outfit and it seems her father did not want the student to come back to school," local education official Patrice Dutot told AFP today.
According to the 2004 law that governs secularity in schools, veils, the Jewish kippa, and large Christian crosses are all banned in educational establishments, but "discreet religious signs" are allowed.
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