VIDEO. The school in turmoil

Mockery, insults, blows, even death threats… Since the start of the school year, an association financed by National Education at the forefront of issues of harassment has been overwhelmed with calls for help and requests for advice from often desperate and desperate parents. powerless in the face of the distress of their children. These calls have one thing in common: a dialogue of the deaf between parents and National Education.

But the means are lacking: the association’s psychologists manage to respond to only a quarter of the requests from all over France, while the number of calls has tripled since Nicolas, a 15-year-old high school student who had undergone of school harassment in his former establishment, committed suicide in Poissy (Yvelines) on September 5.

The letters of shame

Facts repeatedly reported by his parents, who considered the measures put in place at the school insufficient. The Versailles academy took the matter in hand, and the rectorate sent a letter accusing the teenager’s parents of not having an attitude “constructive and respectful“, even threatening them with criminal prosecution.

The revelation of this letter sparked a wave of indignation in public opinion. The collective emotion has become a political issue, this letter being judged by the Minister of National Education Gabriel Attal as “a shame“This letter would be far from being an isolated case: at the Versailles academy alone, over the year 2022-2023, 55 letters of this type would have been sent to families,”a fault“, according to Gabriel Attal.

The Amiens academy agreed to show the “Special Envoy” teams how it manages this type of case.

A report by Julien Duponchel, Laura Aguirre de Carcer, Olivier Gardette, Cyril Theophilos, Anthélia Brodin broadcast in “Special Envoy” on October 5, 2023.

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