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" School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences. "

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

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" 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. "

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