• All Children in France → regardless of citizenship status → required to attend school until 16 years old.

  • adaptation classes → introduced → to children of immigrants → to help them improve French so that they can be assimilated into French schools

  • French classroom → no discussion about religion → except in History, Literature, Philosophy, and Art Classes.

  • 2015 → France launched new course → in moral and civic education

    • promote values of its national motto
    • as well as justice, mutual respect, non-discrimination