This campaign, launched on Monday September 2, the first day back at school, on social networks, television and radio, takes the form of a “filmed social experiment” in order to raise awareness among adults of this violence.
Gabriel Attal had made the fight against bullying at school an “absolute priority”. The resigning Prime Minister announced this Sunday, September 1st, the eve of the start of the school year, the launch of a new national campaign against bullying at school.
The former Minister of National Education will visit the Jean de la Fontaine school in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine) on Monday morning to present this initiative and to speak in particular to the students who return to school “sometimes with butterflies in their stomachs” because they are victims of harassment, Matignon said.
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 “promotion”.
This campaign, launched Monday morning on social networks, television and radio, takes the form of a “filmed social experiment”, designed 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.
“Bullying is poison”
More than a million children are victims of bullying each year in France. “Bullying is a poison. But we are in the process of finding the antidote. (…) After the 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 that I have decided to lead, and I will continue to lead it, even after leaving office,” added the resigning head of government, also a deputy for Hauts-de-Seine, who is due to leave rue de Varenne soon.
At the Ministry of 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 “empathy” classes, which will be generalized this fall in nursery and primary schools.
In November, he participated alongside his predecessor at Matignon Élisabeth Borne in a previous campaign aimed at raising awareness among adults to better listen to the voices of children.
