An administrative court on Wednesday overturned France’s decision to cut government funding to the country’s biggest Muslim high school in 2023, in what rights groups say is part of a wider crackdown on Muslim schools.
Private school Averroes, the first Muslim high school to open in mainland France in 2003 in the northern city of Lille, had 800 pupils in 2023 and had been under contract with the state since 2008. Pupils follow the regular French curriculum, and are also offered religion classes.
There should never be any funding from any government for any religious schools whatsoever, anywhere in the world
Religion holds humanity back, and does nothing but divide us
It was once a source of knowledge, social cohesion, welfare etc. but those days are long gone, and religion has no more relevance than any other mythology
Now it’s about money, power, and keeping people subjugated
There should never be any funding from any government for any religious schools whatsoever, anywhere in the world
This is a historical defeat from the french left, most likely since the 1905 secularists laws. Private (often religious) school, have the the possibility to be agreed by the state, in that case the teacher are paid by the ministry of education but have follow the official curriculum and accept to be audited by the ministry of education. The “private part” is only about the building, and the extra activity, which may (or not) include religious course. Technically there is some non religious private school but most of them would be Catholic (mostly jesuits) and a few of them would be Muslim or Jewish, but many parents put their kids there either to bypass the “school district map” (when the neighbourhood isn’t nice enough to get a good school) or when they’re kid grades are borderline to be accepted in high-school, in that case paying will help (With some of these schools being the place where kids learn to grow weed, get laid, party and barely graduate, but they didn’t go to vocational school
Last attempt to stop this funding of private school by taxpayer money was in the 80’s or 90’s and put all the right wing in the street. I doubt a left wing government will burn their crediblity on that issue. (And politically wise, I am rather putting all right wing on the street on a tax reform or on housing prices rather than on school)