A student responsible for school bullying can now be transferred to another school, avoiding imposing this change on the victim. The decree, published Thursday, August 17, also provides for the possibility of sanctioning a perpetrator of cyberbullying against a student from another establishment.
“When the intentional and repeated behavior of a student poses a clear risk to the safety or health of another student in the school, the school principal, after convening the educational team, implements, by involving the parents of the student whose behavior is in question, any educational measure likely to put an end to this behavior, “says this text.
“If, despite the implementation of the measures mentioned […], the behavior of the pupil persists, the academic director of the national education services, seized by the director of the school, may ask the mayor to proceed to the removal of this student from school and his registration in another school in the town, “he continues.
Believing that the response to school bullying must be “relentless”, the new Minister of National Education, Gabriel Attal, has already mentioned this measure several times, announced by his predecessor, Pap Ndiaye, in the spring, when bullying school was made a national priority after the suicide in May of Lindsay, 13, in Pas-de-Calais.
In colleges and high schools, the decree extends “the scope of the disciplinary procedure to cases in which students commit acts of harassment against students located in another establishment”, specifies the text, a measure also announced by Gabriel Attal.
Visiting Reunion on Wednesday and Thursday on the occasion of the start of the school year, which takes place there on Thursday for students, the minister affirms, in an interview with the Quotidien de la Réunion et de l’Océan Indien published on Wednesday, that he wants a “zero tolerance against all forms of harassment”.
In another interview published Thursday in Le Journal de l’île de La Réunion, he points out that “isolating the student, in general, solves the problem”. “That is not possible in the first degree. My decree will remedy that. »
For acts undermining the values ??of the Republic or the principle of secularism, the decree specifies that the head of the establishment “is required to initiate disciplinary proceedings” and can also “ask the academic director of the national education services to appoint […] a person competent in this field to sit in an advisory capacity on the Disciplinary Board”.
