State Claims Political Correctness in Schools

Country: France

Date of incident: May 21, 2013


The state is very strict with regard to political correctness in schools. It is very difficult for Christian teachers to debate with their pupils about abortion. One of the most striking cases was Philippe Hisnard, a French Catholic teacher who was revoked and suspended from teaching because he organised a debate about abortion in a class of “civic education”.

Even in Catholic’s schools, the pressure is enormous. The minister of education asked headmasters of confessional schools not to conduct debates about homosexuality in order to „avoid homophobia“. Source and further information: The Observatory's Report 2012 on Legal Restrictions Effecting Christians in Europe