These students will carry out anti-harassment prevention actions, the Education Minister announced on Monday. 10% of students would be affected by this scourge....
Jean-Michel Blanquer seizes the file of the school harassment. The Minister of Education announced Monday the generalization of students "ambassadors" in middle and high schools, during a trip to Dijon alongside the wife of the head of state Brigitte Macron. 

"There will be ambassadors high school students and college ambassadors in every college and every high school in France, to have this active role against harassment," he said during a press briefing at Lycée Carnot de Dijon. 

According to this system, which has been spreading since 2015 in high schools and will be extended to colleges, students "ambassadors" carry out anti-harassment prevention actions. "We need new ways to fight against harassment, that is to say, to engage students in this fight," said Jean-Christophe Blanquer. 

"Harassment affects about 10% of students"

"Harassment affects about 10% of students, it can spoil their lives, it spoils their studies, it spoils the atmosphere of institutions, so it is very important that everyone is sensitive to this," he insisted. . The minister and Mrs. Macron were greeted by hundreds of high school and college students and applauded before playing skits illustrating harassment in high school. 

"The ambassadors are essential because they are the relays We teachers have a special relationship with them, [but] sometimes we are not good relay because they are afraid we do not understand them not, "assured Brigitte Macron, herself a former professor of letters. 

With social networks, "there is no end"
"Before it was finished at 5 pm", but with social networks "there is no more end, it's all night long, they are changing institutions and it's going on," she added. . Jean-Michel Blanquer, who had announced the ban on mobile phones in colleges at the start of the new school year, said that this measure was also part of the "anti-harassment strategy". 

"We are doing this in the interest of children, adolescents, students, so that they are protected against all these abuses, these excesses that exist today through social networks and which lead to cyberharassment, " explained the Minister.