1) You ignore the whole point of those movies. Which are that underprivileged children are just as competent as any other children SO LONG AS PEOPLE GIVE A DAMN. The problem is that such children often get lesser teachers and people who don't give a shit unlike more privileged people. Inherent racism is what holds these people down. Inherent racism and ignorant stereotyping like yours.
It's not these children who have failed until the teacher arrived. It's about how society failed the children up to this point by ignoring them.
2) It's a sexist law... that's why most women's groups are against it. To ban it doesn't "Free" anybody. If a woman is being forced to wear a headscarf (which not even remotely all are... or even half) do you think that one law accomplishes... ANYTHING to make that woman's life better?
No. No it doesn't. All it does is make it so the french can do what they ALWAYS do on equality rights. Laws to ban the headscarf are even more sexist because instead of some women being dictated to what they can wear, instead all women are told what they can't wear. It's even more discrimination then the previous law.
The problem is that the French don't do anything to protect Muslim women. Because they only publish pamphlets about abuse in french... even though a lot of women who were forced to move there are intentionally withheld from learning french. It would take minimal effort to translate this stuff to the correct languages for the suburbs.
3) There are plenty of women who complain. Simply check out the french womens movement group the AFVT.
The problem with the French is that they prefer to hide and ignore there problems rather then confront them. They pass token laws with no real teeth and that don't solve problems but instead only symptoms of said problems.
In the end they pretend to be a lot more progressive then they really are.
I wouldn't say there is no chance of it changing though. Ironically the EU is a great chance for the increase of women and religious freedoms... assuming France and to a lesser extent Germany don't actively derail it... hence the shame that the UK hasn't stepped forward more. It'll be up to the Scandinavian states.
I know there have been proposals to take the US laws as a model.
