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800,000 to 1 million children are victims of school bullying each year in France. It is in college that the phenomenon is most marked. Testimony.
The end of classes sounds like a deliverance for a schoolgirl, who is coming out of four years of school harassment. “It takes away a stress in me since the beginning of college“, she confides. After joining a course adapted to her academic difficulties, she says she was insulted and threatened by a group of students in a general course, in particular during sports lessons. The family says they have contacted the director of the sector, the CPE, as well as the sports teachers.
“We fight against the wind”
The college would not have offered any solution. The girl’s mother also says she contacted the academy, to no avail. “We fight against the wind”she laments. The schoolgirl, anxious, stopped eating. “I had a hollow in my stomach. (…) I was really very thin because of That“, she confides. She was then excused. Her mother filed a complaint against her daughter’s alleged attackers for harassment. The Academy says for its part that it has exchanged with the students concerned. At the start of the next school year, the young girl will join high school. She projects herself towards a happier education.