Preventing School Bullying through Awareness and Support

This assignment focuses on the critical issue of school bullying, its impact on students, and the need for schools to develop effective strategies to prevent and address bullying. It emphasizes the importance of raising awareness among students, teachers, and staff about the consequences of bullying and providing support to victims. The assignment also highlights the significance of training teachers and staff in identifying bullies and rendering help to victims.

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The US is one of the most developed and fast-growing countries of the modern 21st
century. There are many problems that are often faced by the students who go abroad for
studying. One of the major problems that exist in the US is the problem of bullying. Every year a
huge number of students become the victims of bullying. The problem of racism often comes
into play in this context. Often the students that are the natives of US do not really accept the
students who come from other ethnic or racial backgrounds. Almost 1 out of 3 students in the
American schools get bullied every year particularly between the ranges of 6th to 10th grade.
About 160,000 students become dropouts. They are extremely afraid and traumatized by the
experiences that they get from the bullying at school (Juvonen & Graham, 2014). Apart from
them, there is also the chance of cyberbullying as well. Many of the school students are also
threatened or are abused online. The LGBT youth are also very vulnerable to the chances of
bullying (Azeredo et al., 2015). The major problem is that often the students that are being
bullied are too afraid to go the police or to any other adult members who might help them out.
This is also because the families often stay silent on this issue or do not really count the words of
the children. The school authorities are also mostly silent on this and do not really take any
strong actions. So, bullying in the schools is a major problem for US that needs to be
checked (Boden et al., 2016).
This indeed is really very shameful because schools are places where the students must
be getting a friendly and amicable environment that will help them to study and grow in peace.
The presence of the gang culture at schools is also very much responsible for the bullying. They
often contribute to the school violence by targeting the weak and the vulnerable students (Axford
et al., 2015).

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However, there are also solutions to this problem of bullying. Just as charity begins at home, the
need and understanding of safety also begin at home. It is the duty of the parents or the
caregivers to make sure that they are keeping the lines of communication open with their
children. Their preliminary education will always at their home and then at their schools. So, the
parents or the caregivers who stay with the kids for a long time will have to explain to their kids
the concept of bullying. They must always ask the children about their day to day experiences at
school. They must also enquire about the behavior of the teachers, the bus drivers and also the
seniors and the classmates at school. This will be very advantageous to check bullying because
this will create freeness and frankness among the children and the parents. Even if the parents are
busy at work the whole day, they must make sure that at the end of the day they have a clear
conversation with their children. They must explain to their children the concept of bullying and
also the gestures, the words and the actions of others that are the signs of getting bullied. They
must also teach their children that if ever they feel bullied, they must immediately report it to the
adults. They will also teach the children about the adults that they can trust with. This will
remove any kind of hesitations from the minds of the children (Lee et al., 2017). They will have
this faith and confidence within their parents and their caregivers that they can easily come up
and share about any and every kind of experiences that they experience at their school or at any
other possible places (Espelage, Rose & Polanin, 2015). The parents must know that their
responsibilities do not end just by sending their children to school. They must keep a constant
follow up with the teachers by going to the school events, parent teachers meeting, meeting the
bus driver and staying in contact with the parents of the other children. This open communication
will help the students to get a place of security and they will no longer stay silent about the
harshness that might be faced them at school.

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Apart from this, it is the duty of the parents, the caregivers and also the school teachers to
involve the students in different activities of their own choice. Kids often have interest in
different playing activities like sports, chorus songs, playing football in the school club and many
other such group activities. This will be very advantageous because it will help in developing a
team spirit within the children. They will learn how to stay with one another in peace and
harmony and will help in developing the feeling of confidence and the feeling of friendship
among them. They will learn it from a tender age that they must give up the feeling of enmity
and violence and in the course of these group activities that they will meet with other students of
the same and also of the different interest. So, they will know how to share and care for each
other. This will instill the feelings of love, friendship and that of mutual understanding and will
save the students from bullying. Kids always see their adults as their role models and learn from
their actions. So, it is the duty of the adults to make sure that they make their children learn about
the different ways of managing stress and conflict. They must take the children to different social
parties and home gatherings where they can see and learn how their parents and the other adult
family members treat their colleagues, friends, and relatives. They must instill the principles of
kindness among the children to make sure that there is no place of bullying among in the lives of
the kids. Bullying is often a result of frustration, lack of a peaceful homely and friendly
atmosphere, frequent fights between parents and among other family members. These unhealthy
affairs going on in and around the families often make the children quite violent and thus, they
end up in bullying others.
One of the major forms of bullying is the cyberbullying. In this digitalized era, children
easily have access to all kinds of gadgets and forms of social media. Video games are also one of
the most common time pass activities of the students. Most of the children are exposed to high

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levels of violence on the video games and also through the games that they play on the internet.
Often the ones that want to bully use the social media platforms like that of email, SMS,
Facebook, twitters and several another website to treat people online. So, it is the duty of the
parents to make sure that they are keeping an eye unto the online activities of their children. The
must help their children to make the security and the privacy settings in their work stronger. If
the parents feel that their child is undergoing some sort of cyberbullying at school, they must
immediately talk with the school authorities and must make sure that there is a strict check on the
websites that the students use. The parents must act sincerely and must sit with their children and
support them rather than taking their computers away. This will make the children feel at ease
and they will know that they have a safe and secure environment at home and that they can easily
share all their problems with their parents (Ansary et al., 2015). Parents must also try to spend
more time with their children and take them on frequent family picnics and outings so that their
minds can be diverted from the world of internet and they can be given a feeling of assurance
and positivism. Supporting and strengthening the emotional wellbeing of the children is of
utmost importance. In extreme cases, it is always advisable to take help from the police or the
cybercrime experts who will make sure to provide every possible support to the child that is
being bullied (Meyer, 2015).
The school authorities especially the teachers and the principles have a major role to play.
They must start working in partnerships and in proper collaborations with the parents,
psychologists, doctors and may other anti-bullying organizations to make sure that they can
reach out to all the students who are feeling worried or bullied at school. Ditch the Label is in
such nonprofit seeking anti-bullying charity organization that can be very helpful in this
aspect. The teachers must often involve the children in activities like internet research, writing

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poems, storytelling, library research and many other such activities that will help the students in
understanding what is bullying, how can they identify bullying and how can they deal with the
same. Schools must also use hidden cameras and must instill the CC TV system in all the areas
like the classrooms, the corridors, the playgrounds, the backyards and many other such places
where there are chances of the students getting bullied. This will be highly advantageous for the
children as they will be able to develop a clear understanding of bullying and will also be able to
deal with the same. This itself will reduce the chances of bullying a great deal and the students
will also know that they must register a complaint if they are being bullied at school. The
students will be assuring that school authorities will be there to support them and will take the
necessary steps to check the problem. The school authorities must also conduct teachers and staff
training programs, workshops and seminars (Boske, & Osanloo, 2016). These will mainly be
aimed at training the teachers on how to identify a bully and how can they render help to the
students who are being bullied.

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