Tuesday in the National Assembly, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne said she wanted to “make the fight against bullying the top priority for the start of the 2023 school year”, after the suicide on May 12 of a 13-year-old girl, Lindsay, victim of school harassment. The head of government listed several announcements in the hemicycle.
Elisabeth Borne said she wanted to “make the fight against bullying the absolute priority for the start of the 2023 school year”, Tuesday at the National Assembly, after the suicide on May 12 of a 13-year-old girl, Lindsay, victim of school bullying. “Bullying is a scourge that undermines the daily lives of thousands of young people and too often causes drama, distress, depression and sometimes even suicide. Lindsay’s death is a terrible example of this and I want to express here all my solidarity and my support for his family and his friends”, declared the Prime Minister during the session of the questions to the government.
The Phare program will be extended to high school, announces Borne
“We are going to extend the Phare program to high school. From the start of the school year, we are going to designate a reference adult in the fight against bullying. We are going to further protect student victims in primary school by opening up by decree the possibility of excluding from a school a student who is bullying. We will make it compulsory to train staff against bullying, we will increase the means of alert and listening platforms”, listed Élisabeth Borne.
The Phare program provides for the training of a reference team of at least five people per middle school and per primary school district, the appointment and training of at least ten student ambassadors per middle school and ten hours of training per year for children .
The Ministers of the Interior and Justice mobilized
The head of government also indicated that she had “asked the Ministers of the Interior, Justice and Digital Affairs to support the Minister of National Education in order to be more effective in the prevention and sanctions against harassment, in particular on social media”.
“Yes, harassment can kill and it is intolerable” and “our schools, our colleges, our high schools must be places of knowledge and openness against ignorance and prejudice, places where everyone is protected”, has insisted the Prime Minister, who was questioned by the president of the Renaissance presidential group, Aurore Bergé.
Received Monday at the Ministry of National Education by Pap Ndiaye, the family of Lindsay, 13, who committed suicide in May after being the victim of school harassment, questioned the minister accused of not being “sincere” and helpless in the fight against this phenomenon.
Source: Europe1
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