The government introduced a guidelie that schools could be allowed to ban veils. This is partly because teaches have difficulty to see if students are part in lessons with veils covering their full face. The guideline doesn't necessarily prohibit wearing all religious clothes, but once it's enforced, clothing such as veils could be mostly banned. Some students shows their agreements with this guideline because they can see students' facial reactions. On the other hand, some pupils regard it as an intimidating because non-muslim students feel that muslims are different to them. Human rights commision protested this guideline because it could result in student' being withdrawn from the school. Ban on religious symbols are a debatable problem.
Ban on religious symbols is very controvercial and difficult to do because the government which try to enforce this guideline are non-muslims. They can't understnad how the religious veils are important. However, in my opinion, religious symbops such as headscurf, veils are interrupting their learning in school because teachers can't see students with veils understood the lessons and other students can't see muslim students' reaction on their communication. In teaching, teachers are watching students' faces carefully and sometimes they talk to students what you think about questions in classes. It's face to face communication and it can be prevented students from expressing their feeling on the face if they wearing veils covering their full face.
Futhermore, this ban on religious symbols may decrease bullying because muslims are sometimes discriminated with their visual differences to non-muslims. For I percieve that they are muslims with their all black suits when I see them in large stations in Tokyo. Though being muslims are not bad thing and they have rights to wear such a clithes, all black suits are too expressive and it can be a prejudice in school which cost them a lot. Especially after 9.11, people came to see as if all muslims were criminals, and wearing such a distinctive clothes stimilate people's mind that they are dengerous. It's kind of prejudice but there are no good to put on religious clothes from the points of view of this society.
In conclusion, ban on religious clothes has reasonable reasons enough to be enforced. It also gives muslims merits in classes and possibly decrease bullying on muslims by changing their phisycal impression. The guidelines prohibits religious symbols only at school and it's not an intimidating.
