Bullying in School: Causes and Prevention Strategies

BULLYING

INTRODUCTION
Bullying in schools has been a headline in the media due to its negative consequences on
children. Bullying refers to the threat or abuse, aggressively dominate. There are many chronic
concerns related to bullying which are to be considered for the development of the victim. There
are many causes of bullying but bullying in school as parental awareness and some students are
given too much power ad authority and for making fun and enjoying they do this and it is the
main cause. To resolve this issue schools must make students to aware about the effects of
bullying by undertaking prevention program like BP- PBS and Health promoting schools.
Bullying in School
Firstly,that main cause of bullying is parental awareness of bullying. Many children in
schools are bully by their peers. It has been described that parents are unaware about their
children are victim of bullying. It is the main cause because of lack of time spent by parents with
children. Also, the quality of parenting in early years has degraded. They are not able to identify
behavior of children. Moreover, students unregulated change in behavior for long time has
affected early childhood. Moreover, weak family functioning makes it difficult for parents to
understand how child interact with others in school. Furthermore, after improvement in parental
controlling main factors identified was time spent with child care and predicting their behavior
reported by teachers. Therefore, parental awareness is main cause of bullying. For example –
only 1.8% of bullying cases were reported by parents. In England 45% of student told their
parents that they are bullied. Thus, this shows lack of parental awareness as cause of bullying.
Furthermore, there are various approaches that relate to preventing bullying in school. The
first one is health promoting schools (Wolke and Lereya, 2015). Here, teachersof school work
together to promote positive health. Here, in curriculum a healthy and safe school environment is
developed. Moreover, communities and family members are involved in promoting health. The
approach consists of framework which is curriculum teaching and learning, school ethics and
community. The students are encouraged to care about each other. Also,teachersensure that in
curriculum health promotion is included at both social and physical environment of school. The
approach is aligned with curriculum. The program are effective when it include change in school
culture, teacher and parents. The approach emphasis on building strong school and community
culture. The personal skills and resilience are developed for long term. there are different