The outgoing Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, announced on Monday, September 2, an initiative aimed at raising awareness among adults of this violence.
It is aimed at students who are starting school “sometimes with a knot in my stomach.” A new national campaign against school bullying is being launched this Monday, September 2 by Gabriel Attal, the resigning Prime Minister. The former Minister of National Education, who made the fight against this scourge a “absolute priority”went this Monday, September 2, morning to the Jean de la Fontaine school, in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine), to present this initiative, while more than a million children are victims of harassment each year in France.
This campaign, launched Monday morning on social networks, television and radio, takes the form of a “filmed social experiment”created in collaboration with the e-Enfance association and child psychiatrists, to raise awareness among adults of this violence.
In the campaign’s video clip, adults imagine scenes of harassment by putting themselves in the shoes of those being harassed or the harassers, before being confronted with real situations reported by the dedicated telephone number 3018.
«Harassment is poison. But we are finding the antidote. […] After awareness at all levels, the change in mentality must continue to be felt everywhere on the ground”stressed Gabriel Attal in remarks reported by Matignon. “This is the fight I have decided to wage, and I will continue to wage it, even after I leave office.”added the head of the resigning government, also a deputy for Hauts-de-Seine, who must soon leave rue de Varenne.
The fact that Gabriel Attal has resigned, which prevents him from announcing new measures or new funding, does not pose any problems, according to Matignon, because it is a campaign of “prevention” and not of “valorization”.
Generalized “empathy” courses
In National Education (from July 29, 2023 to January 9, 2024), Gabriel Attal had notably published a decree so that “Fear changes sides” and that it is the bully who changes schools and not the bullied student. He had also introduced courses “empathy”which will be generalized this fall in nursery and primary schools.
In November, he participated alongside his predecessor at Matignon Elisabeth Borne in a previous campaign aimed at raising awareness among adults to better listen to the voices of children.
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