Education vs. Me: What's more important?

This past week in class, we have been examining education and conflicts that arise from it. The first synthesis prompt we were exposed to questioned whether or not religious attire could/should be worn during school hours. The controversy centralized about Aishah Azmi-a muslim teaching assistant-who refused to remove her hijab at the primary school she worked when British officials confronted her due to complaints from her colleagues and the parents of her students.

 In source A of the prompt, the present Prime Minister at the time, Tony Blair, stated that Azmi's failure to remove her hijab denied the "right of the children to a full education." However, the hijab originally served as a symbol of chastity sacrilege, a self-choice regarding personal identity.

 Now, most of the world follows a christian faith, the majority falling in the continent of Europe. In Luke 6:31, Jesus states: "as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them." In simpler terms, give others the respect for who they are so they may return you the respect you deserve. This moral code is part of the "one true moral law" as an absolutist would claim (Walter T. Stace, The concept of morals). 

That being so, it seems ridiculous that by denying Azmi her identity--albeit Muslim, a gentile so to speak--somehow the children are receiving a 'fuller education.' I mean, the purpose of the hijab is to prevent promiscuity, so by enforcing martial law for woman not to cover up, isn't the government insinuating the ideal that women should strip down--possibly as far as nude--for students to learn better? Doesn't that sound like objectifying? Americans want less women in the street as prostitutes, yet somehow we want to have the role models of the nation's youth be skin-clad? I'm confused. 

Referring back to Stace's, The Concept of Morals, absolutism establishes that there is "one moral code," so both of the contradicting sides cannot be correct, right? Being me is already hard enough in America as is. But I'm not going to lie, we've moved pretty far since we started as the thirteen colonies. Just take a look at the 13th, 14th and 19th amendments in the U.S. Constitution, which the supremacy clause deems the Law of the Land. We've done some great things in the past, but we can't settle for less. America's got to strive for more. I hate to say it, but Trump is right, She needs to be great again. And that greatness starts from fixing the small issues. If you hit an oak tree a thousand times in the same spot, it is bound to fall.