Automatically translated from Basque, translation may contain errors. More information here. Elhuyarren itzultzaile automatikoaren logoa

Uniforms in all schools: What is behind the measure that the French Government wants to impose?

  • Students from all schools must wear uniform from 2026, as announced by the French president. They ask several educators and educators that this is a "measure against diversity." Clothing is a way of demonstrating and expressing identity, and the Macron Government wants to standardize, homogenize and eliminate all subjectivity to all students.

18 January 2024 - 05:49
Last updated: 06:54
"Estatuak diziplinatze tresna batzuk erabiltzen ditu bere begirada inposatzeko, tartean eskola". Argazkia: 123RF

In order to eliminate inequality between social classes, it can be decided that students establish the uniform, but listening to President Emmanuel Macron's speech in its entirety does not seem to be the purpose. Considering the intentions and decisions listed in the discourse, "everything is a set that gives meaning to the uniform, responds to a vision and we understand that it does not have a social function, that the objective is to eliminate diversity, to standardize the students. Through clothing, people seek ways to show identity, and with the uniform that is covered," explains Amelia Barquin.

"In this elimination and homogenization, there are certainly intentions not to see a dead person, not to see an African cloth, to eliminate some urban forms that may have to do with the social class and the citizens of other origins...", says the educator Nora Salbotx. In the name of neutrality, because Salbotx sees blurry focusing on racism and classism.

Our way of managing our appearance and our body, especially at certain ages, is an important way of expressing ourselves and expressing ourselves, perhaps the freedom we do not have in other areas is used to dress us, and all this contradicts the measure, Barquin explains. Although the uniform is defended from a socio-economic perspective, "the social class always looks for ways to show its brightness," he says, for example, with expensive shoes and backpacks.

"In this elimination and homogenization, there are certainly intentions not to see the fig tree, not to see the African fabric, to eliminate some urban ways to avoid it..."

Do I skirt girls, boys pants?

Barquin and Salbotx also suspect and worry that uniforms strengthen binarism: one garment for girls and another for boys.

Salbotx also criticizes school instrumentalization: "In the speech, Macro speaks of order and security, of better assembly, of better control of borders, of more control of drugs, of duplicating the police, of disciplining the uneducated… and cites, without reservation, among the instruments he will use for this discipline, the school. Brigitte Vasallo et al. have denounced that the State uses disciplinary instruments to impose its gaze, including the school. This is a clear example of this."

Education of French nationalism in power

Along with the uniform measurement, Macron mentions, among other things, the study of La Marsellaise in Elementary or the national service of high school students. In short, it seems that the French Government wants to make schools an instrument for educating children and young people in French nationalism, as confirmed by Seaska President Peio Jorajuria: "Both in the conference and in the scenography, the message has been profoundly conservative and nationalist French, and that is what it intends to do through education, to develop French nationalism so that all students internalize that nationalism. For us it is very worrying, but it has not surprised us, because in recent years the government has been following that path."

"Education aims for all students to embrace French nationalism. For us it is very worrying, but it has not surprised us, because in recent years the government is following this path"

Asked how it will affect seaska, "it affects us as a contract school, we have to apply the law", he replied, "but one thing is what is communicated and the other is what is going to go in the final text, because in these years he has made other tough statements and then not everything we have said has been applied, we will see what the final text is and what it is and how it should be applied".

In the words of Emmanuel Macron, in two years' time, only one garment will enter into force in the schools of the French State, but the idea is that a pretest be carried out in more than a hundred schools and that if the uniform is properly evaluated, the measure will be extended to the rest of the schools.


You are interested in the channel: Hezkuntza
Ikama denounces the professor of the Alava Campus of the UPV/EHU who disseminates "fascist messages"
Ikama, a professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in Vitoria-Gasteiz, has denounced the dissemination of “fascist messages” on social networks. Last September, the UPV expelled a professor from the Leioa Campus for his messages on... [+]

2025-02-07 | Gedar
The attacking teacher of the Eunate school in Borrería gets the students to leave
According to the IA of Pamplona, this teacher sexualized students and justified the violations. Last Friday they held a sit-in and had a collection of signatures in action to dismiss the teacher.

They don’t know why

The Department of Education doesn't understand why public employees have gone on strike. He's got to ask the LAB Syndicate. This union signed an agreement with the department in April 2023. Two years later they have also called for a strike because, unlike the previous ones, the... [+]


The Generalitat wants to ban mobile phones at all stages of compulsory education
From Early Childhood Education to the end of Compulsory Secondary Education, the Minister of Education of the Generalitat de Catalunya aims to ban mobile phones in schools. It also aims to study the lack of technological materials in the classrooms of children up to 6 years old... [+]

2025-02-05 | Tere Maldonado
Irakasle-klaustroak edo mundua nola hobetu

Erretiratu berri den lankide-ohi baten omenez, Historiako irakaslea. Bejondeizula!

Hezkuntza-legeek azpimarratzen dute zein garrantzitsua den ikasleengan pentsamendu kritikoa sustatzea. Baina irakasle-klaustroak, garai batean ideien eztabaidarako eta proposamenak... [+]


More places to stay in Judimendi: Transforming the stigmatized Model A school into a Model D neighborhood school
The Judimendi public school in Vitoria-Gasteiz has been a segregated school, welcoming students from all over the city, children of families of foreign origin. But in addition to the transition from model A to model D, thanks to the process carried out by the neighborhood to... [+]

Strike in public education in Navarre
Unions say the third strike of the school year has also been a success
Thursday was the third day of strike since the beginning of the school year in Navarre Public Education and after the morning mobilizations, the LAB, Steilas, ELA and CCOO –callers of the protest– expressed their satisfaction. The torrential rain and cold have constantly... [+]

Bringing future generations on wheels in Vitoria
The Vitoria-Gasteiz cooperative, through its Vivienda Escuela initiative, has started this course to train the children of the schools to ride bicycles safely and independently in the city. It participates in the initiative together with the City Council of Vitoria-Gasteiz and... [+]

2025-01-30 | Axier Lopez
Schools without mobile phones in Brazil
The invasion of screens in our lives has accelerated in recent years. In the Basque Country, on the one hand, we want “screens in Basque” to increase the audiovisual offer, and on the other hand, we organize ourselves to reduce the areas that have gained the most diverse... [+]

To the department of education

I received your e-mail in personal mail on the strike portals. At first, like many others, I thought it was to let you know what options we have in the face of the strike. But no, the e-mail received was a political and communicative movement against the strike.

I will confess... [+]


2025-01-29 | ARGIA
For two decades Basque and Elebic schools have taken over the French in the Northern Basque Country
Schools with an immersion model in Basque and a bilingual model have gone from being a minority in the Northern Basque Country to a majority in twenty years, according to the study of the Basque Public Institution.

School sport vs club debate in full swing
The Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa will now appeal the ruling that a child who wants to work in a sports club does not have to do school sports. On the one hand, the freedom to choose the sport that the child wants, on the other hand, the model that favors educational and... [+]

Vocational training practices are a source of problems
The dual system is already underway in this academic year in the Vocational Training of the Southern Basque Country, and although it has been sold as an example, it is proving problematic in several centers: the teachers “are going through red” in search of companies for all... [+]

2025-01-28 | UEU
The Bakedano Moreno Sea
"We are all referents in sex education"
The online course "Sex education beyond classrooms" with the UEU will be taught by the sexologist Mar Bakedano Moreno (Baldorba, 1992). She holds a Master’s degree in Sex Education and Counselling from INCISEX, a Clinical Sexology Training from Dos Areas and a Pedagogical and... [+]

Bengoetxea takes over as rector and the financing of the UPV/EHU continues to be a subject of debate
Without making any special announcement, Joxerra Bengoetxea calls for "academic freedom and critical spirit" when he takes the oath of office as rector of the UPV/EHU, in Ajuria Ena: "The UPV will be the wall of containment against those who deny scientific evidence."

Eguneraketa berriak daude