A new tool against bullying? The Minister of Education, Gabriel Attal, declared on Tuesday that he was working on the future implementation of a questionnaire distributed to students to fight this scourge, a government priority for this school year.
“We need to be much more capable of detecting weak signals. I would like us to be able to set up a system where all students evaluate themselves on whether they are being bullied or not,” the minister said during a debate on M6. scheduled for Tuesday evening and broadcast in advance on RTL.
Gabriel Attal announced “working with experts on a kind of self-assessment questionnaire that could be offered to all students.”
Train parents
The minister also wants parent representatives to “receive more training on these bullying issues.” “They are also interlocutors for other parents and families. Training them on these issues makes sense,” the minister’s entourage told AFP.
The minister also wants to “educate in the absence of violence and aggressiveness in relationships with others”, generating “more time of dedication, starting in primary school”, according to this source.
An anti-bullying plan presented on September 25
The fight against bullying, already initiated by former Minister of Education Pap Ndiaye, intensified this summer following the emotion aroused by the suicide of a teenager, Lindsay, in Pas-de-Calais.
The suicide of a 15-year-old teenager in his home in Poissy (Yvelines) last week brought the issue back to the forefront of the media at the beginning of the school year.
On September 25, a new inter-ministerial fight plan should be announced.
Source: BFM TV
