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Video. School: the series "Adolescence" can be shown in classrooms from the 4th grade onwards to prevent violence and misogyny.

Video. School: the series "Adolescence" can be shown in classrooms from the 4th grade onwards to prevent violence and misogyny.

These excerpts from the miniseries, already shown in British middle and high schools, are "very representative of the violence that can exist among young people," and will be able to be viewed "with educational support from the fourth grade upwards," Borne said. Across the Channel, Downing Street announced at the end of March that the series would be shown in British middle and high schools to spark debate and try to "prevent young boys from being drawn into a whirlwind of hatred and misogyny."

Such media aims to raise awareness of the problem of "overexposure to screens and the trivialization of violence on these social networks" as well as the spread of so-called masculinist theories, misogynistic spheres which advocate violence against women, argues Élisabeth Borne.

The series tells the story of a 13-year-old British boy arrested in his small English town and accused of stabbing one of his classmates to death. From police interrogations to his confrontation with a psychologist, each episode dissects the investigators' immersion in this masculinist ideology and the way it may have influenced young Jamie, as well as the shock of those around him, and the helplessness of many adults faced with the impact of social media, which they are largely unaware of.

Asked about the problem of anti-Semitism in schools after graffiti in a primary school in Le Havre, Élisabeth Borne stressed that her ministry would "update the guide for our school heads and teachers, to respond to new forms of anti-Semitism."

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