Rejecting admission into a school

CAN A PUBLIC-SCHOOL DIRECTOR REJECT A MUSLIM STUDENT INTO THEIR SCHOOL ON GROUNDS OF HER WEARING A HEADSCARF?

The wearing of a headscarf for religious reasons is encompassed within the right to freedom of religion according to Article 4 of the Basic Law of the German Constitution and is, therefore, allowed on principle (see general article on this topic here).¹ The director of a non-denominational public school may therefore not refuse a Muslim pupil admission to their school because of her wearing a headscarf for religious reasons. Such conduct would be unlawful.

^{1 Anger in Islam in der Schule, page 168 onwards.}