Beheading of teacher exposes secular divide in French classrooms

FILE PHOTO: Candles are lit at a makeshift memorial as people gather to pay homage to Samuel Paty, the French teacher who was beheaded on the streets of the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, as part of a national tribute, in Nice, France, October 21, 2020. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/File Photo

Those fault lines, if anything, have got stronger over the last 10-20 years, said Delphine Girard, who started teaching in 2004, the year France banned the wearing of Islamic headscarves in schools. State secularism, or “laicité” is central to France’s national identity and demands the separation of religion and public life.

Recalling the 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo, she said she had avoided discussing it the next day with her students.Secularism was enshrined in French law in 1905 after anti-clerical struggles with the Catholic Church. In recent decades, the desire among some French Muslims to express their religious identity has dominated the debate around balancing religious and secular needs.

France’s national curriculum sets out the framework and directs teachers towards websites that suggest teaching materials and lesson plans. For lessons on freedom of expression for 13-year-olds, the same class Paty had taught, the Charlie Hebdo cartoons are a common suggestion.

Humanity has failed

Actually,it exposes how French government trying to create division between children! And so...

The 'racist' common people have been shouting this for years, only to be ridiculed en patronized. The elite have been looking away much too long. Left party's have been supporting and cheering welcome. In many country's of Europe.

Sorry I meant to say Islamic religion i don’t want to get beheaded for that!

This is no good antagonizing ppl and turn them against each other. And 2 ladies get stabbed over 6 times by Eiffel Tower,Muslim ladies but media is bias so they won’t get any coverage. This whole thing is an election play,sadly ppl are paying the highest price for it.

'Secular divide?' - Is there a large pro-beheading group in France trying to make their case? I mean they did invent the guillotine so maybe it's a French thing?

I have never heard any muslim who criticises or condemns such actions by speaking against them All they do is to play a victim card during such incidents parisbeheading Islam terrorism

is it OK to show anti-semitist caricatures to students in a school?

Exposes too, the invasive, and hostile enemy Europe have allowed in!

Freedom of expression all the way. I condemn beheading of teacher by a terrorist

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