“Monstrosities” and a “defective state”. The Parliamentary Commission of Violence in Schools, was launched after the Betharram scandal, drew on Wednesday, July 2, the table of a “hidden reality” on Wednesday, July 2 and recommended 50 measures to act, which you can find in its entirety below.
At the end of the three months of audiences, the recurrs, Paul Vannier (LFI) and Violette Spillet (Renaissance) listed an arsenal of proposals against what the president of the commission of the commission, Fatiha Keloua hashi, qualifies in his prologue “monstrvision” for those who “of the children, everywhere” were delivered.
Protect, inform and control
In the report, the recommendations of the deputies are grouped into five axes. Among these: recognize “the responsibility of the State for deficiencies” to have allowed this violence and create a “compensation and support fund for victims.”
In control and inspections, they recommend “every year” verifications in establishments with primary schools and “at most every three years” in high school (universities and secondary schools). For private establishments, they ask “at least a complete periodic control” all “the five years maximum” and that “students received in individual interviews by the inspectors are systematically selected randomly by the inspection mission and not by the management of the establishment.”
To protect students, they offer, among other things, “proceed to an honorary control” of the staff and the volunteers, “at the time of their recruitment and then every three years.” They also argue to “systematically lift the secret” of confession if “is related to the acts of violence committed in a child under 15 years.” The deputies want to “register in the Code of Education and the Code of Social Action and families the prohibition of any corporal punishment or humiliating treatment with respect to children.”
They also request “establish a national unit” to collect adult reports, dedicated “to personnel and representatives of parents of students” outside the hierarchical path.
“Real deuelvia of violence” in Betharram and “lack of action” by Bayrou
In addition to their recommendations, the relatives elaborate a dark evaluation, after having audition almost 140 people: that of “widely hidden” violence, which persists “in all types of schools” and a “defective state” to control them, prevent them and treat them.
The Investigation Commission does not save the Prime Minister, who was Minister of Education at the time of the first revelations.
The parliamentary report criticizes François Bayrou a “lack of action” at the time of the case. He could let the violence “continue”, when he was “informed” and “had the means” to act. The prime minister’s entourage provides BFMTV that is “exactly the opposite.”
“François Bayrou organized an inspection on the day after the day a complaint for a slap appeared. This inspection took place. It gave rise to a brilliant report for the establishment,” abounds in which they surround it.
Reporters evoke Notre-Dame-de-Betharram “a real wear of violence.” Violence “was, in part at least, institutionalized” in this establishment, they indicate, with “a community of notables with unwavering support”, including “government members.”
The prosecution of the PAU is currently investigating almost 200 complaints about acts of physical and sexual violence and violations that occurred in the private notre-Dame establishment of Betharram in the Pyrées-Atlantiques and covered several decades.
Mechanisms “accentuated in Catholic education”
The deputies describe the same “logic at work” in other establishments, including “institutionalized violence under the pretext of educational excellence.”
For them, these mechanisms “accentuated in Catholic education”, due to an “explicitly more strict educational model, based on many boarding schools” and a “particularly significant law of silence.”
Today, this violence is “still invisible” in public education and persists in a “worrying” way in private education, “especially Catholic,” they say.
The rapporreurs deplore the state of “quasi -exploiting” controls by prevention and “incomplete” reports. The reports tools are “scattered, opaque, inadequate” and do not allow “correct monitoring”, they write, asking that national education “assume responsibility.”
Source: BFM TV
