Henri Guaino and Alain Bentolila: "What can schools do in the face of an increasingly dehumanized society?"

Another teenager who kills a teenager , fifty-seven stab wounds, after so many others. Violence is in the school with its procession of intimidation, threats, rackets, trafficking, assaults, rapes, murders. We harass, we hit, we injure, we rape, we stab, we kill in the school, at the school gates, students and teachers, for a yes, for a no, for drugs, for religion, for a reprimand, a word, a gesture, a refusal, a look, for nothing, because for too many children, adolescents, adults, violence has become a normal mode of expression. Certainly, the aggressors, the rapists, the harassers, a fortiori the killers, are still only a small minority in the ocean of the school population. But it is the consequences it has on the lives and psyche of all students, all teachers, all of society, and on the future that give the measure of the seriousness of this violence and not the statistics.

Of course, every…