Teachers' and French population's support for current major secular laws 2020

In France, legislative measures aimed at guaranteeing secularism are almost unanimously supported by teachers. In fact, the 2004 law prohibiting the wearing of religious symbols or clothing that expresses religious affiliation in public schools and colleges generates a broader consensus among teachers (92 percent) than among the French population as a whole (85 percent). The legislation that has the highest rate of support, both among teachers and the population, is the law of 1905, which guarantees the free exercise of religion and imposes the principle that the State neither recognizes nor subsidizes any religion.

Generally speaking, the French are rather unfavorable to the principle of public funding of religions.