The French President Jacques Chirac is banning overt religous symbolism in French schools. This translates into a ban on Muslims wearing head scarfes, as well as wearing christian crosses and jewish skullcaps. Sounds pretty reasonable to The Green Man, afterall identifying symbols like that can be pretty divisive. Just like the divisions that arise in youths wearing branded clothes. Perhaps that should be banned too.

Then there is the divisive nature of school uniforms, they can cause all sorts of rivalries between students of different schools. They should be banned too.

There is a clear and natural conclusion to this problem: nudity. If the school children leave their clothes at the gate then there can be no symbols to cause divisions in the school community. All the French children frolicing naked together in peace and happiness, what an insightful man Mr Chirac is. There is the problem of winter of course, Paris can get very nippy in the winter. Still I am sure Mr Chirac will think of something.

Read about Mr Chiracs initiative in The New York Times.