The government must unveil today its interministerial plan to fight against this scourge of which approximately one in ten children is the victim. Support for harassers, control of telephones, parental involvement, training… Measures already exist but the government wants to do more.
“ That’s very good news, exclaims Release. We must of course wait to know the details of the measures that will be put on the table, and the means that will go with them, to assess the reality of the uproar that the public authorities seem to want to decree. But the subject is of such importance that all efforts in this area are welcome. Because there is an emergency, point to the newspaper. The scandal of the threatening letter sent in May by the Versailles rectorate to the parents of a teenager who committed suicide a few days after the start of the school year shows the extent of the work that remains to be accomplished within the Énational education. Because although France began to take the subject seriously around ten years ago, it remains generally lagging behind in the implementation of prevention measures. “.
“ The fight plan which must be unveiled by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne is a major issue for the whole of society », insist The Latest News from Alsace. “ Bullying at school does not systematically kill, but always, implacably, it destroys, it damages, it mutilates. It’s a lifelong injury. ” The solution ” requires total involvement of the State. Gabriel Attal says he wants “an electroshock at all levels”? Chick. »
The Danish example
One of the solutions could come from Denmark, says Release. Indeed, specifies the newspaper, “ Alongside Sweden and Iceland, the Scandinavian kingdom is one of the countries in Europe where school bullying is lowest. Minister Gabriel Attal also went there last week, in order to discover the methods that work “. Among these methods: there is one that has proven itself and has already made its debut in a few nursery schools in Paris and the suburbs. It’s about tackling the problem at its roots, from a very young age. “ The principle ? Create caring communities of children in which no member can feel excluded, and where bullying will therefore normally have no chance of intruding “.
And then, pick up The crossthere is already the pHARe program, tested in 2019: “ generalized in schools and colleges in 2022, then in high schools at the start of the 2023 school year, it aims to prevent situations of harassment. Among its measures, awareness hours for all students “.
Some tracks…
So what could the government announce this Wednesday to better fight against school bullying? Here are the main avenues under study, according to The cross : “ Strengthening the training of teaching staff. The systematic confiscation of the cell phone of the child responsible for serious cyber-harassment. The ban given to minors in question from accessing social networks. The implementation of a questionnaire for all students in order to identify “weak signals” of harassment. And the creation of dedicated “brigades” on the subject in the rectorates “.
Nagorno-Karabakh: “No to ethnic cleansing!” »
Also on the front page, the exodus for thousands of Armenians chased from the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave… With this rant from West France. “ No to ethnic cleansing! », exclaims the newspaper. “ In an odious silence, a people is delivered into the hands of their executioners: “If they do not leave, we will hunt them like dogs”, declared the dictator of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliev, three years ago, on the subject Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh. (…) The emergency is humanitarian and political, launch again West France. The Armenian ambassador to France calls for immediate international protection. But the international community, which has never recognized the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh, is looking elsewhere. (…) Shameful passivity encourages the crimes of today and prepares those of tomorrow. This is unacceptable “,the newspaper is further indignant, concluding with this appeal: “ It is time for France, a member of the UN Security Council, to put words into action! »