“Anti 2010”, “Brigade against 2010”, or even “2010 niq *** your mothers”.
Faced with the online movement - and in the playgrounds - against 6th year students, born in 2010, Jean-Michel Blanquer increases in tone.
The Minister of National Education promised Monday that "a new step" would be taken in the fight against cyberstalking, in particular through enhanced cooperation with the platforms.
Visiting a college in Grandvilliers in the Aisne, Jean-Michel Blanquer called for a "jump-start for fraternity, to prevent a teenager, a child, from feeling alone, isolated, badly because of that (. ..) We are going to take a new step in raising awareness, ”he said.
Le Parisien recounted on September 16 the origin of this movement against “the 2010s”, which consists in ostracizing the 6th year of college, or even insulting or humiliating them.
If college students often tend to make fun of the little ones, to assert themselves, it would seem this time that this sordid trend has started on the very popular video game Fortnite, where the 2010s are accused of not playing like it. should.
Then a song came to reinforce these stereotypes.
"Pop it Mania", by Pink Lily, released last August.
In a very colorful clip, a teenage girl with a self-tuned voice sings "we are the queens of 2010", a claim that will crystallize an annoyance until then confined to the world of games.
Last week, the main federation of parents of pupils, the FCPE, had asked the government to "act urgently" because the sixth-graders born in 2010 had "become the target of campaigns of insults, harassment and cyberstalking ”, notably through the hashtag # anti2010.
The TikTok France platform then assured to have removed "all hashtags" aimed at harassing these students.
Strengthened relationship with platforms and students
“What just happened with the attempts to harass 6th grade students should alert us all to bounce back the other way, whether it's with that hashtag # BienvenueAux2010 [launched last week], but au- beyond this initiative, by going much further, through a strengthened relationship with the platforms ”, underlined the Minister of Education.
We say YES to the fellowship.
And NO to harassment.
We welcome new college students, 6th grade students.
So you too would like to # BienvenueAux2010.
And don't let anything go:
➜3020 facing harassment
➜3018 facing cyber-harassment pic.twitter.com/ZahKNxpdMD
- Jean-Michel Blanquer (@jmblanquer) September 16, 2021
"We are talking with the platforms so that they are more and more civic and that they fully play their role in the fight against harassment," he continued.
Assuring that the government had taken this subject "head-to-head since the start of the five-year term", he also mentioned the "Phare" program, tested for two years in six academies and generalized in this return.
"We ask some college students to be ambassadors against harassment" and staff are also trained on these subjects, detailed the minister.
Parents must also be involved in this process through workshops.
