School bullying is not just in the cinema: according to a recent OpinionWay survey for Heyme, 22% of students (aged 16 to 35) have already been victims of it in their lifetime … The reason? It’s still the same: physical appearance. And school harassers are generally not strangers: for around 30% of the victims, the executioner was an acquaintance … or even a “friend” for 20% of the students who were the victims of school harassment.
Questioned by our colleagues fromEurope 1, the ex-Miss France 2016 and Miss Universe Iris Mittenaere confided to have herself been a victim of this scourge: “I was harassed from elementary school to college: it was insults, beatings under the tables … directed against my physique since at the time, I was very thin.“
“By talking about bullying, we can change a lot of things”
“It is important to never let these people win over us, we have to prove to them that they are wrong. (…) In elementary school, we can be ashamed of being a victim, be afraid to talk about what we are going through (…) I encourage people who are in this position to talk to someone about it, because it does a lot of good: by talking about it, we can change a lot of things.“
“I would really like to address the parents to tell them to open their eyes, to be present for their children and to lend them a listening ear. (…) I think it’s really through them that children will be able to transform this bullying in something that can be positive, in a strength, in having a lot of love, of benevolence on their part. They can really make a bulwark.“
To make the general public aware of this issue, the Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sports has put online a video – which sounds the alarm bells about bullying in primary school. Because school bullying unfortunately has no age …
Source: Heyme press release
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