The suicide of young Nicolas, 15, a victim of school bullying, shook the country. The affair of the “mail of shame”, received by his parents when they reported the facts suffered by their son, before he ended his life, provoked very strong reactions. To investigate these letters of disapproval, originally intended for parents who threaten teachers, Gabriel Attal went directly to the Versailles rectorate. And he made an observation: “Over the 2022-2023 school year, 120 so-called “reproval” letters were sent. […] 55 of them seem to be asking questions. »
And added: “Obviously work will continue to identify what led to the sending of these letters, and whether it was justified to send them or not,” he explained after a meeting with the rector of the academy of Versailles.
This letter was described as a “shame” by Gabriel Attal, who announced the launch of an audit on the management of cases of harassment during the last school year in each academy. The services of the Versailles academy and its former rector, Charline Avenel, who left in July, have since come under fire. On Friday, the terms of another letter from the Versailles rectorate, sent in May to parents who complained of sexual touching of their daughter, were also condemned by Gabriel Attal.
“Why I came here to Versailles, first of all to create transparency. What are we talking about ? We are talking about a letter, called a letter of disapproval, which is sent to people when there are threats, sometimes threats to the physical integrity of national education agents,” underlined Gabriel Attal on Monday. In such a case, “obviously the institution has a vocation to stand alongside its agents and make it known,” he added.
An interministerial plan on school bullying must be unveiled on Wednesday by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne during a press conference.