Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Scarf Outing Rejected

How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head?

- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Education Battle Number

Equality in education is my number one battle.

- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Partnership Facilitate

As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools.

- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Mother Some Frowned

Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France.

- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Feel Means Deny

I feel totally French - I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.

- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Big Been Pupils

If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.

- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

My Own Need Minister

I'm aware that beyond my own need to find a personal balance, I should be sending a signal to society as women's minister about the importance of work-life balance.

- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Shy Contradictory Very

I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.

- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Social Inequalities

I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.

- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Education Will Shore

By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training - and ameliorating wages and working conditions - we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system.

- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Injustice My Own Sexist

I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.

- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Back Attended Part

When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.

- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

School Values Transmit

It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also.

- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Over Domination Sexes

We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.

- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Lives Having Orientation

In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation.

- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Education Identity Fraud

The education ministry files suit every time there is a case of identity fraud.

- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Feel Box Put

When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others.

- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Explain Pupils Protects

We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.

- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Society Proud Dream

My dream of society is a society where women are free and proud of their bodies.

- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

More Delicate Pupils

French, Politician

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