School Harassment: New Measures to Better Protect Harassed Students

Until now, it has not been possible to change schools for first-degree pupils (nursery and elementary schools) without their parents’ consent. Now, when keeping a student in a school poses a risk to the health or safety of other students, the Academic Director of National Education Services (DASEN) can ask the mayor to remove the student from his school.

Such a procedure for changing schools will take place if initial educational measures, such as dismissal from school for a maximum of five days, have not led to an improvement in the behavior of the pupil concerned.

The sanctioned pupil will be subject to enhanced pedagogical and educational follow-up at his new school until the end of the current school year.

In middle and high schools, disciplinary proceedings (reprimand, temporary or permanent exclusion...) may now be initiated when pupils commit acts of harassment, including cyberharassment, even against pupils attending schools other than their own.