I don’t know if you can just pull out your kids from school in France. Where I live all kids have to go to school, without exception. The police will literally come and bring them to school if the parents try to keep them home. If you don’t make sure your kids go to school you will even loose custody.

It has nothing to do with not liking how Muslims dress. I think where we actually disagree on is where on the scale of fucked up we put the whole “women and girls need to cover themselves”.

I don’t agree at all that it’s just a dress or just a headscarf. It’s a symbol of sexist oppression. And a strong one at that. Allowing parents to make their kids follow that rule is a disgrace in my eyes. It’s bowing to extreme sexism and conservatism because you are scared the parents will be mad.

No, we need to put our foot down on this. This practice shouldn’t take hold in a country which calls itself caring for the freedom of it’s people, children in particular. In my eyes we are backstabbing these kids. They could have been free from what their parents impose upon them. But we decided to let them down.