The start of the school year, which is more in “the school of the grown-ups”, is anxiety. For new and new students, first and foremost. For parents too. This year, the return to new and new 6th grade seems harder than usual: the fault of the stigmatization of children born in 2010, notably via the hashtag # Anti2010. Several parents responded to the call for testimony that we launched this Friday morning and report insults and sometimes attacks on their children.
This “phenomenon” should be put into perspective: around thirty people responded to our call. Nothing indicates that it is about a massive harassment, nor that it is necessarily very different from the hazing “usual” – although unacceptable – for the “small” and “small” of the college. In any case, it is not systematic since Delphine tells us that “for the moment, there does not seem to be a problem”. At her daughter’s college, they “didn’t seem to know”. In any case, she asked her neo-collégienne daughter to come and talk to her in the event of a problem.
Parents on alert
Audrey notes that her daughter is not undergoing “any harassment at the moment but some of her friends do in the playground”. She hopes that her region, far from a large urban center, will protect children from the phenomenon. This mother rebels on the other hand that last week the college of her daughter explained to the harassed children that “it was normal, not serious and that it would pass”. This may be true, but Audrey finds it “absurd, even without the hashtag # Anti2010”.
Other cases appear to be more problematic. Jessica in particular “took the initiative to alert” the college of her son after the latter was photographed by older students at the exit of the establishment. “The photos were used to display the 2010s on TikTok”, the social network or, it seems, the hashtag # Anti2010 was born. It was also deleted by the platform this Friday. Still according to Jessica, “the college was very responsive and the problem should be addressed in HPP [heure du professeur principal] “. In the meantime, Jessica’s son asks his parents to be on time to pick him up in front of the college.
Help from big brothers and big sisters
Edwige’s daughter was downright “jostled, victim of tripping and arbitrary slaps by an older 4th year student”. The problem has apparently been resolved by the college’s CPE but it took the intervention of older and larger in the playground. “She explains to me that they call them the 2010s, laugh at their clothes and ask them if they like Pop-it, in the tone of mockery. […] Fortunately, her big sister in 4th year intervened, supported by other comrades to verbally defend her sister by asking to leave her alone. “
As usual in cases of bullying at school, it is not easy for children to speak up and denounce older children. “They are afraid of reprisals,” Charlène tells us. Linda’s daughter was able to denounce her stalkers by going together, that gives courage. It is also not easy for parents to spot the problem. “My son reported problems to us several times, but we didn’t know to what level to be able to say in college ” fed up with bothering my son. ”” Claire, like many other parents, doesn’t want to sound like a mother hen. Fortunately in her case a supervisor, herself a victim of bullying at a younger age, was able to spot the problem.
Overall, when there are cases, school administrations seem to take the problem seriously and act quickly. Unless some people take justice into their own hands. Laetitia tells us that her son didn’t let it go when he was molested on the school bus. He called his parents and “the dad quickly fixed the problem.” It must have gone wrong.