Sacrificing freedom for equality in France&#39;s schools
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As students in this high-rise slum on the northern edge of Paris enter their grim high school each morning, they pass a battered steel sign reading &quot;LycÃ©e Suger: LibertÃ© - EgalitÃ© - FraternitÃ©.
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School saga is inflaming old divides between ethnic groups.
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Some parents are opting to ÂunschoolÂ their children, a philosophy broadly defined by its rejection of not only the schoolhouse but also classes, curriculums and textbooks.
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A Resistance fighter who was executed by the Nazis was honored Monday in schools across France, although some teachers defied an order by President Nicolas Sarkozy to have his final letter read aloud, saying the government was trying to twist history into propaganda.
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Traditionally, clashes over academic freedom have pitted politicians or administrators against instructors who wanted to express their opinions and teach as they saw fit. But increasingly, it is students who are invoking academic freedom, claiming biased professors are violating their right to a classroom free from indoctrination.
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Pupils who have been excluded from school in England will no longer be able to hang around the streets.
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The UN&#39;s Children&#39;s Fund and the European Union on Tuesday called for an end to discrimination against HIV-positive and Gypsy children in Romanian schools.
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A day before heading back to class, French students spent yesterday soaking up the sun and debating a surprisingly grim question: Is it worth sacrificing the lives of two Frenchmen to maintain a controversial dress code?
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Three Sikh boys are expelled from school in France under a law banning religious headgear in schools.
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Challenging one of the great taboos of French politics, a new book has laid bare the love life of the country's amorous leaders.
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Farcical. Lamentable. Simply dangerous. It seems no words are too strong to express France's outrage with a lawmaker who embarked on what the government insists was a private mission to free three hostages in Iraq.
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French schools have expelled three more students for flouting the controversial ban on Islamic headscarves. The latest expulsions brought to five the total number of girls so far expelled under the new âsecularity
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Two French journalists kidnapped in Iraq have pleaded for Paris to meet their captors&#39; demands and reverse a ban on Muslim headscarves for girls in public schools.
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PARIS French Muslims are not blaming their government for the recent kidnapping of two journalists in Iraq. The Islamic militants who seized the reporters two weeks ago are demanding that France repeal its ban on headscarves in schools.
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Two French journalists held hostage in Iraq have urged the French government to give in to their captors&#39; demand by revoking a law banning Muslim head scarves in public schools
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Three more Muslim girls have been expelled from schools in France for defying the new ban on headscarves. They join two girls expelled on Tuesday - one of whom told a French newspaper it had destroyed her life.
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30 August 2004 -- Paris said today that it will not repeal a ban on the wearing of Muslim headscarves in public schools, despite the demands of hostage-takers in Iraq holding two French journalists.