On Thursday, November 10, the room of the Documentation and Information Center (CDI) of the Mont des Accords college was filled with ninth-grade students for a reading competition on the theme of school bullying.
Animated with pedagogy and energy by Mr. Venthou-Dumaine, the competition began with a discussion with the students on the definition of this scourge which affects nearly one in 10 children each year at school: bullying is defined as violence repeated which can be verbal, physical or psychological. Among one of the texts read during the competition, whose jury was made up of Madame Hilaire, professor of physics, and Andy Armougon, school climate referent to the vice-rector, these few sentences recited with force: “Stop violence. Stop being silent, talk about it. Do you think you're strong when you put yourself down? You can ruin his life and it hurts”. Between each reading, an exchange took place with the young people in order to underline the important words like "justice" by emphasizing the school sanctions (warning, dismissal) and penal sanctions (6 months in prison, 75.000€ fine) for the person who harasses, "witness" by distinguishing the active witness from the passive, "speak" by inviting to confide if one is a victim whether it is to the CPE, principal, to a teacher, social worker, parent or even a friend , and “cyber bullying” which is just as damaging. Two videos dealing with school bullying, one of which was produced by the Aline Hanson school in Sandy Ground, were shown to the students. This thematic action led by the astonishing Ange-Marie Venthou-Dumaine, librarian teacher at the college, therefore proposed a competition for the reading of a poignant text in French by six groups of 3rd year pupils with the support of three 4th and two of 5th. Three groups were pre-selected by the jury to declaim their text again. After their passage and a short deliberation, the winning quartet, composed of Peggy Cedeno, Gonzalez Cavina, Defosse Telisma Lys and Irish Chance Kandre, was applauded and congratulated, among others, by Jacques Houpert, Deputy Principal.
An official award ceremony in the presence of the parents will be organized at the end of the week. An exhibition of works condemning bullying has been installed in the college hall, reminding everyone of the importance of fighting against this gratuitous and unjustified violence. _VX
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