Louise Sallé / Photo credits: NICOLAS GUYONNET / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP 8:12 a.m., February 15, 2024
As promised by Gabriel Attal, the start of the winter holidays will be an opportunity for several municipalities to start experimenting with unique school outfits. A uniform which includes a blazer, a sweater, two polo shirts with pants, as well as Bermuda shorts for boys or a skirt for girls.
This Thursday was to mark the end of the call for expressions of interest for requests for uniform testing from communities. Finally, there will no longer be a deadline: municipalities, departments, regions can still come forward. Perhaps due to too few applications? It is nevertheless an opportunity to ask ourselves where the communities are in their experimental approaches. To test the “unique outfit”, made up of white or gray polo shirts, navy blue sweaters and gray pants, who will wear this uniform?
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“On Monday February 26, 732 children will be in uniform” in Béziers
The most advanced municipality, the one which has validated all the steps to establish this uniform, is Béziers. "We had decided, with the ministry, to choose four schools. One refused, by one vote, but then we had no problem. On Monday February 26, 732 children will be in uniform. The children are chosen, the internal regulations of schools has been changed to be able to require identical clothing for everyone, everything is ready", explains the mayor of the city, Robert Ménard.
The town of Puteaux, in the Paris region, would also be on track to clothe its schoolchildren by the end of February. Among the other candidate communities, around a hundred establishments concerned, some have given up, as in Brittany, Sarthe or Bouches-du-Rhône, due to opposition from parents, students or teachers since their votes count to establish this outfit.
In the rest of France, such as Nice, Troyes, Reims or Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, consultations are still underway.