Schools should be able to ban religious or cultural clothing or headgear to create uniformity?

On average, everyone disagrees with significant nonconsensus between 385 voters.

Reasons To Disagree

But caring parents might...

It's a basic civil right to wear whatever religious or cultural symbols you want wherever you want, whether that be a necklace or a veil. The schools have no right to interfere with that. It's called tolerance.

a schools a place of learning!!!! why would the school be allowed to decide how those individual kid live? People must remeber that school is only a place of learning it shouldnt be the place where you learn your idealogy or beliefs.

Private schools yes. Public schools no

Reasons To Agree

I believe it is vital to ensure that all children experience themselves as equals with other children. I also firmly believe that filling children with religious ideas is morally repugnant in the first place. It's tantamount to brainwashing, and deprives them of the freedom to make up their own minds later in life. Consider the outright propaganda and untruths taught to children in North Korea. That *is* brainwashing, even though the teachers and parents truly believe they are doing the right thing. Religious parents and communities routinely do the same thing to their children. To me it is clear there is no difference between the isolationist political dogma of North Korea, and the religous dogma of religous parents and communities.

A level playing ground makes for a good learning environment this could only come about with uniformity.

The overwhelming majority of schools in NZ are secular and secular education seeks to removes barriers to education. Remove the headscarf like in France i say and the cross! They are not needed. I am a teacher and i dont want to see people parading their religion around every where. If I was gay which i am does that mean I should wave the rainbow flag everywhere?! No so remove barriers to education!

if thy wana live by their religions thy should go back to their own country

I guess at the end of the day, its a uniform and the point of the uniform is that all children look the same. Plus perhaps I wanted to wear a spaghetti strainer on my head in honour of the Flying Spaaghetti Monster, whose to say where the line is drawn? Better to make it clear..