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Headscarf Ban at Elementary Schools Confirmed by Austrian Federal Council
The so-called headscarf ban, the ban on covering the head of children from the age of six to ten for ideological and religious reasons, was approved by the Federal Council (Bundesrat) despite controversial debate. For Minister of Education Faßmann, the ban on headscarves corresponds to the socio-political consensus on the development of children as freely as possible and the necessity to overcome gender-specific stereotypes.
The headscarf ban is intended to prevent Muslim girls in particular from being forced to wear headscarves and from being instrumentalised by Islamism. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Chris Schuepp [CC BY 2.0]
Through an amendment to the School Education Act, which goes back to a motion by members of the ÖVP-FPÖ coalition, it is stipulated that children up to their 11th birthday are not allowed to conceal their heads at school for ideological and religious reasons.
This is intended to prevent Muslim girls in particular from being forced to wear headscarves and from being…
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