2023-06-11 16:18:18
All middle school students in France will have to follow this week an hour of awareness on “harassment and social networks”said Sunday, June 11, the Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye, who recently promised to strengthen the fight against this scourge, after the suicide in May of a teenager.
“This hour will be an opportunity to recall how the use of social networks can accentuate the phenomena of harassment” et “to underline the responsibility of each one” in the use of these networks, detailed the minister. He asked the principals of the 7,000 colleges (3.4 million students in total) to organize this intervention “in connection with the educational teams”.
Pressured by Lindsay’s family, teenager who ended her life in May in Pas-de-Calaisthe government announced last week that the fight against harassment would be the “top priority” of the start of the 2023 school year.
In January, a 13-year-old child, Lucas, committed suicide in the Vosges. Relatives of the college student had reported acts of harassmentrevealing the mockery and insults of a homophobic nature of which he had said he was the victim of other students in his school.
“Still a long way to go”
Pap Ndiaye will bring together the 14,000 school heads on Tuesday by videoconference, as well as the national education inspectors (IEN) or even the rectors, for their “remember all the levers at their disposal” et “collect their feedback from the field”the ministry said in a statement.
The subject was also on the menu of consultations carried out since Friday, and until Monday, with the unions, the federations of parents of pupils, but also the Authority for the regulation of audiovisual and digital communication and the leaders of social networks. . On June 29, the Minister of National Education must, moreover, bring together the officials responsible for the fight against harassment in each academy, “in order to remind you of the procedures to be followed and the new measures that will have to be implemented”.
Recognizing that national education had “still a long way to go” on this issue, Mr. Ndiaye had promised on June 6 additional means to fight against bullying at school. A referent on bullying – nurse, principal education adviser or teacher – must in particular be appointed “in each establishment” back to school, he announced.
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