New Decree Allows for Transfer of Students Involved in Harassment

It was a promise of the previous Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye. A student responsible for school harassment can now be transferred to another school, avoiding imposing this change on the victim, according to a decree published Thursday. “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 bringing together the educational team, implements, by associating the parents of the pupil whose behavior is in question, any educational measure likely to put an end to this behaviour”, indicates 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, can ask the mayor to proceed to the removal of this student from the school and his registration in another school in the municipality, ”he continues. 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.

” Zero tolerance “

Visiting Reunion on Wednesday and Thursday on the occasion of the start of the new school year, which takes place there on Thursday for the pupils, the minister affirms, in an interview with Daily newspaper of Reunion and Indian Ocean published on Wednesday, wanting “zero tolerance against all forms of harassment”. In another interview published Thursday in The Journal of Reunion Island, he points out that “isolating the student, in general, solves the problem”. “It 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”.