"Beards? Bandannas? What next? This exercise has become absurd. Totally absurd." -- Daniel Robin, national secretary of France's largest union for high school teachers, reacting to a government minister's call to ban beards and bandannas from classrooms along with Islamic head scarves, Jewish skullcaps and Christian crosses.
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