Bullying: Najat Vallaud-Belkacem calls for … – Les Echos

Bullying: Najat Vallaud-Belkacem calls for … – Les Echos

700,000 students in France are victims of bullying. The Minister of Education wants to raise awareness and strengthen staff training

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The Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Friday called for awareness against the bullying that concerns some 700,000 students in France and that sometimes leads to consequences tragic. “We need a greater awareness, a bit like being asked about violence against women on the reality of this issue,” she said on iTELE, on the occasion of the presentation of a series of measures against bullying. “In schools, it is necessary that awareness is daily.”

To break the silence on this form of harassment often regarded as insignificant, an awareness day Media will be held next year, access to the toll will be facilitated via a four-digit number and training of personnel of the first degree will be strengthened to better help them detect ill-being of students.

Acts tragic

“Among the students victims of bullying, an estimated one in five students will not talk about what he saw every day, “said Najat Vallaud-Belkacem. “This is what will drive the often tragic acts because he really has the feeling of being in a dead end.”

Invited Friday on BFM TV, Nora Fraisse mother of the young Marion, who ended his days because of daily harassment she suffered in college, called for the creation of a law against bullying offense and a national prevention plan. On 13 February 2013, her 13-year-old college daily insulted and Facebook had hanged herself in her room. The case is being investigated in court in Paris, Nora who filed a complaint against those responsible for the harassment. A poignant testimony she tells in a book “Marion, 13 years old forever.”

“collective denial”

Nora Fraisse denounced such” contempt “with which has treated the educational institution and leading a” collective denial. ” “I have testimonials every day from parents asking for help, because it’s always the victims (harassment) to leave, it is for the victim to mourn his schooling,” Does highlights -it. “We must reverse the trend: tell the stalkers, ‘what you are doing is not normal and is prohibited’. There must be sanctions, “she added.

According to the Ministry of Education, more than 383,000 students are victims of severe harassment, 700,600 students including harassment moderate. Approximately 4.5% of college students suffer from cyberstalking and one in five is a victim of cyberbullying.