The move was described as “worrying”. In a letter this Thursday, Edouard Geffray, the director general of school education – who depends on the Ministry of Education – wished to alert on the phenomenon and warn school leaders of the # Anti2010 phenomenon, which has been circulating on social networks for several days.
“The good reception of 6th grade students and their successful integration thanks to the benevolence of their classmates and adults are an essential issue of school life in college,” he explains in this letter, fearing “insults and threats , by older comrades, to children born in 2010.
The hashtag # Anti2010 targets young college students born that year, entering 6th grade this year, and generates mockery and harassment towards them.
Reporting procedures and support
The Ministry of Education recalls, in the same letter, that a pupil who would be identified as a bully “is liable to disciplinary action” and notably asks the establishments to put in place the reporting and support procedures required in the event of a problem. incident.
To counter the phenomenon, the director general of school education invites school heads to encourage families to contact the emergency number. 3018 to request the removal of the online video and comments and thus mitigate virality.
They are also asked, in this case, to write a level 2 or 3 “establishment fact” and therefore to report the incidents to the ministry. Finally, establishments are called upon to contact the mobile security team if necessary so as not to allow trauma to set in.
Blanquer calls for “benevolence”
In a video posted this Thursday, the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer also called for “benevolence” by launching a new hashtag # BienvenueAux2010.
“Be benevolent in your turn, be vectors of fraternity, be ambassadors against harassment, tell all students born in 2010, tell all 6th grade students ‘welcome to college'”, finally urged the minister.
Original article published on BFMTV.com
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