There are so many cases of School Violence on this generation, including fighting between students, sexual harassment and bullying affecting one's mental health. School violence becomes a serious problem even in the past years or decades in different countries, some even use different weapon and attack school staff using physical attack.
School Violence is prevalent in different countries affecting children and adolescents. Social Violence consist of Psychological, Physical and Sexual Violence.
Physical Fighting
This is one of the School Violence that occurs when a two students decided to fight using their strenght. A simple teasing with each other may result of physical fights. Some reasons why other students resort into physical fighting is because of their environment. Example is in Home Environment, they experience physical abuse to their own parents that is why some is rebelling through physical fighting. Another thing is their Neighborhood Environment, like when their neighborhood is full of physical violence, fighting using their fist and they always catch sight of it.
Sexual Violence
Sexual Violence is widespread also in school, and the perpetrator is their own classmate or even a teacher. It is Sexual Violence when a student force themselves to his fellow student or a teacher to his student to have sex, or without their consent. Sexual Violence can experience by everyone, and anyone can be the perpetrator any ages, any sexual orientations and any genders. There are also consequences of sexual violence such as, physical injury, genetal injuries and in mental health of the victim like, anxiety, depression and suicidal thought.
Bullying
Bullying is a purposely abusing of their power in their relationaship through physical, social and verbal behaviour intending to cause physical ang psychological harm. It can happen to a a group of people or individual who has more power toward other people and misusing it to their victim who can't stop it from happening.
Behaviour of the Bully
To be considered it a bullying, the bully must be aggressive and:
Misusing of Power - a students who bully their victims using their power through their physical sthrenght and blackmailing using embarrassing information to control others.
Repetition - bullying can happen not just once or twice, it can happen as long as they want to control you for their own satisfaction.
Types of Bullying
There are different types of bullying that includes physical, mental, sexual and cyberbullying.
Physical Bullying - the bully physically hurt their victims through:
Hitting, Kicking, Shoving, Pinching
Locking up in the Bathroom
Forcing the victim to steal anything
Take and destroy the victim things
Saying mean things with mean hand gestures
Psychological Bullying - the bully used verbal and emotional abuse their victim, including social exclusion or shutting out and refers to;
Be called in any mean names
Be teased in disagreeable ways
Be ingnored by them purposely
Be the subject of nasty rumors
Sexual Bullying - the bully made fun of their victim by;
Being a subject of their sexual jokes
Being a subject of unappropriate comments
Cyberbullying - the bully sending false rumors to everyome using social media sites.
Sending mean message via text
Spreading rumors through email
Creating a site to taunt the victim
Spreading pictures without the victim consent
Sending hurtful messages to the victim
Calling names using cellphone or call
School violence need to be stop now for the good future of the kids. Stopping it will also stop the continuosly increasing of suicide all over the world. Proper guidance not from just Parents but also from the Teachers is really needed. By doing it, kids now will go to school without thinking that one day, they might be next victim or perpetrator of School Violence.
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I made an article before about “What if your Child was a Bully”. Bullying has reasons why it happens. From the bully down to its victim. But bullying must be stopped and the first people to prevent and stop it was the parents of the bullies themselves. Never ignore signs of a bully and a bully victim, it may affect their lives deeply emotionally, and mentally.