PARIS, Feb. 4 (Xu Qingru) To participate in the school uniform experiment, voluntary schools in France must obtain approval from the school council or school board. However, many parents, middle and high school students have questioned the experiment.
No uniforms, according to Le Parisien! The Ministry of Education's experiment with school uniforms has been met with resistance as soon as it was announced. In Marseille, for example, more than 500 secondary school students at Chape School were invited to express their views on the introduction of uniforms through the Pronote app. Three-quarters of the students took the poll, with 66 percent voting no. The school administration immediately suspended the project. Now, the local education department must find another school that is willing to experiment with school uniforms. But time is pressing: the deadline for the Ministry of Education to solicit expressions of interest is Feb. 15.
The same is true in the city of Le Mans. Through electronic voting, 78 percent of students at Touchard-Washington rejected a proposal by Le Mans regional president Christelle Morançais to wear a uniform uniform. "What's next?" said Jean-François Bourdon, the school's principal, "and there's no next step." When the district contacted me, I was willing to accept the experiment, but only if the students were willing to accept it as well. The principal said he was not "disappointed" that the experiment ended early. "The students had a rare experience of democracy. Can school uniforms solve all the problems of national education? No, there are other projects that need to be implemented. ”
To start the experiment, a number of conditions must be met, including the approval of the project by the primary school board and the secondary school board. The adoption of uniform requires changes to the school's internal regulations, which must be approved by the assembly of staff, parents and students. It is not mandatory to ask the student or parent for advice beforehand, but it helps prevent conflict from occurring.
Plouisy, a small township of just over 2,000 people and the only candidate for experimentation in Bretagne, did not hold a referendum. About a hundred teachers, parents and students angrily demonstrated outside City Hall on the night of the school council to express their opposition to the project. The protests seemed to bear fruit, and a few hours later, the school board announced the suspension of the project.
In Florange, parents of four public schools also held separate referendums. A vote count took place on Friday, and three schools agreed. According to Mayor Rémy Dick's office, the school board should soon make a decision based on the results of the consultation. They agreed not to question the parent's choice. Subsequently, attire will be determined on a school-by-school basis at a workshop attended by parents and children, with a view to getting students uniformly dressed at the start of the new school year in September. ”