Education Minister Gabriel Attal says authorities are watching schools for signs pupils could be violating the newly-announced ban on the Muslim dress.
He said work had been done ahead of the start of the school year to see in which schools this could present a problem, adding that trained school inspectors would be placed in certain schools.The left has accused the government of centrist President Emmanuel Macron of trying with the abaya ban to compete with Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally and shifting further to the right.
Attal, however, said he was against imposing a ban on parents wearing clothes that had religious significance when they accompanied their children on school outings. "There is a difference between what happens in school and what happens outside school. What matters to me is what happens in school," he said.
Some leading figures on the right have called on the government to make children wear school uniform in state schools and Attal said he would announce a uniform trial in the autumn. "I am not sure it's a miracle solution that will solve all school problems. But I think it merits testing," he added.
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