2023-07-27 23:10:49
The new Minister of National Education Gabriel Attal believes that the response to school bullying must be “relentless” and announces that he will issue two decrees to this effect, in an interview with Free lunch published this Thursday evening.
“Before the start of the school year, I will take two important decrees”, indicates the minister, while school harassment was made a national priority after the suicide in May of Lindsay, 13, in Pas-de-Calais.
Two decrees
“The first will allow the change of school of a pupil responsible for bullying rather than imposing this change on the one who is the victim”. This measure, already mentioned by his predecessor Pap Ndiaye, is, according to Gabriel Attal, “highly awaited by families” and “a measure of justice”.
“Then, I will give the possibility of pronouncing disciplinary sanctions against a student who is the origin of cyberbullying against a student from another establishment, which is not possible today. “, continues Gabriel Attal.
Interministerial plan to combat school bullying
The former Minister of Public Accounts also leads, “at the request of the Prime Minister, an interministerial plan to fight against school harassment” which will be presented “at the start of the school year”. As he had done just after his appointment, Gabriel Attal said he wanted “the return of full respect for authority in the school of the Republic”.
Asked about religious clothing, in particular the wearing of abayas (long traditional dress covering the body), he indicated that he had already answered several months ago: “Coming to school in an abaya is a religious gesture, aimed at testing the resistance of the Republic on the secular sanctuary that the School must constitute”, he said, promising to be “firm on this subject”.
As for the wearing of the uniform, the minister claims to be in favor of experiments “if the educational community of an establishment requests it”, noting that this is already the case in certain establishments overseas. But, he adds, “I am realistic. Can we imagine that this would be a magic solution to solve all the problems on its own? I do not believe that “.
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