He had worn it in 2014. It may be applied in 2024. Except that the proposal this time does not come from him. The mayor of Béziers Robert Ménard declared Monday August 7 that his city was officially a candidate to experiment with wearing school uniforms.
An announcement which follows the interview of the Minister of National Education and Youth Gabriel Attal published in Midi Libre on July 26. The new tenant on rue de Grenelle said he was “favorable” to an experiment in wearing school uniforms for volunteer municipalities and provided that “the educational community of an establishment requests it.”
A proposal that arouses interest. “I answer this to Mr. Attal, I raise my hand”, immediately launched Robert Ménard on France Bleu. The mayor of Béziers said he was “delighted” that the minister was going “in the right direction” and “showing pragmatism and realism”. And to add, not without irony: “I did not know that Gabriel Attal was on the far right, a quasi-fascist!” “When we proposed that at the time, we said that it was the National Front, in which I have never been active elsewhere, which was going to take possession of the city and its schools,” he continues. .
However, according to him, it is above all a question of “fighting school bullying”, but also against social inequalities. “There is a race for fashion, for the fashion object.” With the uniform, “everyone will not be judged by the quality of their shirt, but by what is on their mind”.
If the mayor of Béziers concedes that the establishment of the uniform “is not a miracle answer”, and “is not going to solve everything”, he assures that he does not understand the refusal “of a certain number of people so virulent » whom he qualifies as « ideologues ».
