The federal government has come underneath criticism over the way in which it has dealt with a sequence of dramatic instances. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has made the battle towards bullying a precedence for the brand new faculty yr.
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has referred to as for a “basic mobilisation” to battle bullying at college, with a raft of measures starting from systematic reporting of instances to the courts to excluding pupils who bully others from social networks.
The federal government has just lately come underneath criticism over the way in which it has handled a sequence of dramatic instances. And the way in which the French schooling system was dealing with what the prime minister described as a “huge phenomenon”. She stated the battle towards bullying was an “absolute precedence” for the brand new faculty yr.
“We should mobilise throughout the board”, stated Borne, earlier than including that she needed to wage “a relentless battle towards harassment”.
“You aren’t alone”, she stated to pupils who had been harassed.
The sequence of measures embrace making 3018, the emergency quantity at the moment devoted to cyberbullying, the only quantity for reporting bullying instances.
The plan additionally requires all members of the schooling group to be educated within the battle towards harassment by the tip of a five-year interval.
Extra typically, all adults working with minors, for instance in sports activities or at camps, would obtain coaching as regards to bullying.
The federal government additionally needs to introduce the confiscation of telephones, and make it attainable to exclude harassing pupils from social networks.