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Low income persons in need of social housing should be housed in more prosperous areas to avoid placing an extra burden on the poorer areas and to redress the balance in terms of housing, redressing the balance in terms of schooling.
When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended… my classmates for the most part haven’t had successful paths – many have had a difficult, chaotic path.
Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.
It’s important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.
We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they’re not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries.
I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.
Preventing children from going to school, and preventing teachers from doing their jobs, seems to be not just undemocratic but intolerable.
I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.
You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people’s individual freedoms.
My dream of society is a society where women are free and proud of their bodies.
I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
Equality in education is my number one battle.
We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.
I feel totally French – I don’t feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don’t deny my roots.
It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also.
We know that if religion is allowed into schools, pupils will sometimes begin to question the teaching they receive.
On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
If you’re asking me in a general context whether I’m for or against the burkini, the response is simple: I oppose the burkini.
The education ministry files suit every time there is a case of identity fraud.
Compared to some of our neighbours, it’s not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France.
I’m aware that beyond my own need to find a personal balance, I should be sending a signal to society as women’s minister about the importance of work-life balance.
It’s more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.
School is at once a place of hope, but it’s also a laboratory that exposes our differences.
Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there’s a certain type of clothing?
I’m like all parents who try to shelter their children.
We have several million Muslims in France who are mostly moderates or non-practicing. If they feel that it is the only subject in public debate, they won’t feel at home and will be tempted to withdraw to their communities.
By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training – and ameliorating wages and working conditions – we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system.
Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
There is no link between the terror attacks of Daesh and the dress of a woman on the beach.
We have to be careful not to have a form of militant secularism in our country, which is counter-productive for children we would like to see – adhere – to secularism.
I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.
