Elisabeth Borne knows she is expected. There Prime Minister presents, Wednesday September 27, from 4:30 p.m., an interministerial plan “against harassment at school and in all places where the child lives”in the presence of the ministers concerned. She announced this plan in June, after the suicide of Lindsay, 13, in Pas-de-Calais. The head of government then asked the Ministers of the Interior, Justice, Health and the Secretary of State for Digital to work with the Minister of National Education. A mission that Gabriel Attal wanted to take head on, increasing, since the start of the school year, trips and meetings on the subject. “I will stop at nothing”he assured the National Assembly on Tuesday, recalling that the fight against school bullying was his “absolute priority”. Follow our live stream.
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Expected measures. The plan must be structured around three axes, according to Matignon: prevention, detection and treatment of cases of harassment. Several avenues have already been put forward, such as empathy courses to raise awareness among students, the confiscation of cell phones and the creation of anti-harassment brigades in rectorates. The government will also launch a communication campaign, aimed at adults, on the issue of putting children’s speech into perspective, franceinfo learned from a government source.
What already exists. Several measures have already been put in place in recent months to strengthen the fight against this scourge, including the possibility of changing establishments for harassing students, thus avoiding imposing this change on the person who is the victim, or being able to sanction a perpetrator of cyberharassment against a student from another establishment. Minister Gabriel Attal repeated at the end of August, when this decree was published, want one “zero tolerance against all forms of harassment”.
One in ten students harassed. Bullying at school, which in France affects one in ten students, according to associations, is at the heart of the news at the start of the school year after a new tragedy, the suicide of young Nicolas, 15, in Poissy (Yvelines) on September 5. Since then, the Versailles academy and its former rector have come under fire from criticism, with the revelation of a letter with a threatening tone sent last May by the rectorate to Nicolas’s parents. This letter was described as “shame” by Gabriel Attal.