New Decree Allows Transfer of School Bullies to Protect Victims

From now on, a student responsible for school bullying may be transferred to another school. The purpose of this measure is to avoid imposing a change on the victim. A decree was published in the Official Journal yesterday. This 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 pupil poses a characterized risk to the safety or health of another pupil of the school, the school principal, after having brought together 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” explains the 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 carry out the removal of this pupil from the school and his registration in a another school in the town” adds the text.

For Gabriel Fatal, the response to school harassment must be “relentless”, this measure, announced by his predecessor, Pap Ndiaye, in the spring, had already been mentioned by the new Minister of National Education.

In colleges and high schools, the decree extends “the scope of disciplinary proceedings against students located in another establishment” specifies the text, a measure which had also been announced by Gabriel Attal.

Visiting Reunion, on the occasion of the start of the school year, the minister claims to want “zero tolerance against all forms of harassment”.

For acts undermining the values ​​of the Republic or the principle of secularism, the decree also specifies that the head of the establishment “is required to initiate disciplinary proceedings”.