Italy to ban veils in schools, limit foreign students per class, Meloni says
Meloni said the plan would bar burqas and niqabs in schools and set a class limit for foreign students, who make up 11.6% of enrollments.
- On Sunday, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced plans to ban face coverings in schools and cap the number of foreign students per class during a youth event organized by her Brothers party.
- Italy remains exposed to Mediterranean migrant arrivals, making migration a persistent challenge for successive governments. Meloni used the platform to emphasize her right-wing credentials on immigration policy.
- Non-Italian citizens currently account for 11.6% of enrollment in Italian schools, or nearly 12 in every 100 students, according to research institution Fondazione ISMU.
- The proposed legislation requires parents of foreign students struggling to integrate to learn Italian. "In Italy no one, in the name of a real or supposed tradition, can decide that a young woman must hide herself," Meloni said.
- Debates over religious symbols and cultural integration frequently polarize Italian society. Meloni argued that high concentrations of non-Italian speakers in classrooms constitute "neglect" rather than integration, justifying the Cabinet measure.
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The Prime Minister said that the initiative would be presented to the Council of Ministers, and she also planned to demand that parents of foreign students with serious integration difficulties learn Italian.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced that she will present a bill at the next Council of Ministers that will ban in all Italian schools the use of burka and niqab, and limit quotas to foreign students in classrooms. In a speech delivered by the Italian president at the national festival ... Continue reading "Giorgia Meloni proposes to ban burka and niqab in Italian schools "
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Italy wants to ban face coverings in schools and limit the number of foreign students per class. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this at a meeting of the youth branch of her ultra-conservative party, Fratelli d'Italia.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announces that she wants to ban face cover in schools. She also calls for a quota of foreigners for the classes – which the president of the school leader's association does not believe to be enforceable.
Burkas and Nikabs are to disappear from Italian schools, while the proportion of foreign pupils in classes is to be limited. Prime Minister Meloni announces appropriate measures. And in certain cases, she even wants to oblige parents to learn Italian.
Italy's Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, has announced that her country is preparing a measure that would set a legal limit on the number of foreign students in schools and ban the wearing of the burqa and hijab in them. "Italian children cannot feel like a minority in the classroom," Meloni said at Fenix, a national youth festival organized by the youth group of her Brothers of Italy (FdI) party. "It is unimaginable that in an Italian classroom,…
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