The Harsh Reality of Harassment: A Letter to Worried Parents

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A letter to parents worried about their harassed son reveals to what extremes coldness, indifference and administrative reluctance can lead.

Par Sophie Coignard

EStill annoying people, nuisances, and even individuals potentially dangerous to the peace of the institution! This is how the Versailles rectorate reacted to the distress of a family whose child was a harassed schoolboy.

The letter sent to Nicolas’s parents last May, made public on Saturday, does not only arouse incomprehension, it also provokes shock and anger. The National Education administration shows itself to be unworthy of the mission entrusted to it. Without the suicide of Nicolas, 15, on September 5, this letter would have ended up, like so many others surely, in the miserable heap of secrets of the Ministry of National Education.