Martine Brousse, president of “La Voix de l’Enfant”, was the guest of franceinfo this Sunday. She becomes a civil party in the case of the suicide of Nicolas, a high school student harassed in Poissy.
“Has the administration become a robot?”, questioned Sunday September 24 on franceinfo, Martine Brousse, president of “La Voix de l’Enfant”, who decided to become a civil party in the case of the suicide of Nicolas, a high school student from Poissy who has been harassed for months . The former rector of the Versailles academy made her mea culpa after the letter “inadmissible” received by the teenager’s parents. The Minister of National Education Gabriel Attal is expected at the Versailles rectorate on the morning of Monday September 25 “to take stock with the new rector”.
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franceinfo: Nicolas’s parents were not the only ones to receive a threatening letter from the rectorate, there are also other parents of children who have been harassed or victims of sexual touching. What is the situation on this subject in your opinion?
Martine Brousse: That’s the whole question when discovering these revelations on the first absolutely shameful letter and a total lack of humanity. There was a second letter, a dad spoke out and we wonder: is this a principle in all rectorates or are there some rectorates like that of Versailles which act in this way? I am surprised by the words of this former head of the Versailles rectorate. She apologizes, but it’s beyond an apology. There is the death of a young person, the parents. Doesn’t the content of such letters testify to the inhumanity of the National Education administration?
The former rector assures that she was not aware of these letters. Is this surprising?
This means that it is a vertical administration. The head is not there and there is nothing to follow. I cannot imagine for 30 seconds that a rector does not have collaborators at his side who can inform him of this. This is why I speak of inhumanity.
Has the administration become a robot? Do we press a button to send a letter to families?
Martine Broussefranceinfo
We must put the child back at the heart of the institution (National Education). What makes it possible to circulate information, to challenge each other, to take a human look at a situation of parents, of children, is transversality. Apparently, here, we are in a vertical rectorate. This is why I talk about dehumanization. What violence, what harshness for parents was this first letter, and threats of prosecution. Perhaps they are in difficulty, but are we not first moving towards dialogue, meeting? What is this loss of human will?
Parents have received these letters, but associations, including yours, have received letters of this type for having raised too much alarm about cases of children in distress?
Several of our associations have received suspension letters [de la part de rectorat] because they were reporting too much. These associations which intervene in classes to talk about children’s rights, but also to prevent violence that children may suffer, often see at the end of an intervention one or two young people who come to make revelations. Immediately, information is given to the teacher or head of the establishment and a report can be made directly to the prosecutor. One of our associations in the Pyrénées-Orientales saw its interventions suspended because it was making too many reports. This is not the only one, it took place in Brittany too.