Swedish Education Minister punts...

Another boneless wonder....

Education Minister Jan Björklund says he doesn't want to legislate against the use of headscarves, niqab, and burkas in Swedish schools.

Teachers unions have called for common rules for teachers and teaching students working in the Swedish education system, as it is currently up to each school to decide, which can sometimes cause conflict with students and teachers.

In a recent case a niqab-wearing teaching student was told that she couldn't wear the face-covering head scarf by a school she was going to work in.

Björklund says that he doesn't want to regulate schools ad infinitum, claiming that "one day teachers say there are too many regulations, the next they say there aren't enough". He says that headmasters should ban them if they think it affects teaching, and to simply allow them if they don't.

He's worried about how teacher feel about regulations??? So, that's his excuse for not acting?