Victim of insults live or on social networks, but also of acts of violence, some students live school like hell. Teenagers testify here about the harassment they have experienced and the consequences these acts have had on their lives.
Le harcèlement à l'école peut causer des troubles très importants, jusqu'à la phobie scolaire. La psychologue Laelia Benoît explique ce que l'école et l'entourage peuvent faire pour aider l'enfant victime.
Dans un collège près de Nancy, des élèves ont été formés pour écouter leurs camarades, et repérer les premiers signes de harcèlement. Ils aident à briser le silence et à prendre confiance.
A Marseille, un proviseur, Jean-Marc Giner, a décidé d'agir contre le fléau que représente le harcèlement scolaire. Témoignage de l'intéressé, micro-trottoir d'élèves et réaction de Valérie Bocovitz (présidente FCPE, lycée Antonin Artaud).
Sébastien, a 17-year-old student at the Alfred Mézières technical high school in Longwy, Moselle, was tortured by three students at his high school who were taken into custody following Sébastien’s mother’s complaint. The teenager testifies with a face covered with the abuse of which he was victim (torch burns, hammer blows on the fingers...) and which he has been silent. Her mother, beside her, says she is "disappointed" that her son did not speak earlier. It is a comrade of Sébastien, also harassed, who denounced the three high school torturers. Martine CHAUSSEC, principal of the high school Alfred Mézières, tries to explain why the teachers did not see anything while it was happening during the classes.
Aurélien, 11 years old, tells what he experienced as a victim of school harassment: "They called me a big cow, a big asshole, shit, all names...". Her mother, Cécile LECLERC, testified to her son’s suicidal attitude at that time. She also evokes the reaction of the principal of the school to the situation of harassment: "She told me that I should not dramatize...that it was children’s stories..."
Melody, young high school girl, tells what she went through as a victim of school harassment on social networks "Dirty whore we will fuck you up, we will kill you...it was that all the time... I cried all I could...I didn’t want to tell my parents not to disappoint them...". These repeated bullying brought her to the door of suicide. It was with her family in mind that she renounced her action.
On the occasion of the Day against School Harassment, Jade and Thibault, aged 15, testify to the harassment they suffered a few years earlier at the college of Janzé, a commune of Ille-et-Vilaine. Jade says that she received mostly messages of insults, even inciting her to commit suicide. Thibault, received beatings.
In Brest, Finistère, a group of secondary school students decided to act and form a prevention and vigilance group against school harassment. Some schoolchildren testify to physical or psychological bullying of which they themselves were victims.
Testimony of Maxime, 16 years old victim of harassment since the beginning of his schooling. Initially aimed at the color of her red hair, the mockery was amplified before being conveyed through the online social network Facebook. The boy expresses his feeling of loneliness and guilt in the face of these abuses: "I feel a lot of shame, I feel alone...I have very little confidence in myself...". Maxime’s father, who filed a complaint, reports the prosecutor’s words about the attacks via social networks: "What happens there is worse than anything because it is exponential...".
Virginie MONK testifies to the ordeal of her daughter Emilie, 17, who committed suicide after being harassed in class from 5th to 3rd in a private college. In her daughter’s room, which has remained intact, Emilie’s mother reads a passage from her daughter’s diary and describes the physical and psychological bullying she suffered.