The French president’s wife, Brigitte Macron, has weighed into the politically charged debate in France on whether to introduce compulsory school uniforms as parliament prepares to debate the issue pushed by the far right, reports The Guardian.
Uniforms in French schools have not been obligatory since 1968 but have regularly returned to the political agenda.
“It erases differences, we save time – it’s time-consuming to choose how to dress in the morning – and money, compared to brands,” the French first lady told Le Parisien newspaper in an interview.
A retired Latin and literature teacher of 20 years, Macron, who met her later husband, Emmanuel Macron, in one of her after-school theatre classes, recalled wearing a uniform as a student for 15 years, a navy blue skirt and sweater, and told the paper she had coped with it well.