What should schools do about students who bully other students?
By p3ks626
@p3ks626 (6538)
Philippines
March 7, 2010 8:53am CST
This is a very common thing in all schools around the world. A few months ago, i saw this video of the 7-year old kid bullied by a 12-year old kid. He was kicked by the older boy and the video was taken because the older boy's friends told him to kick the younger boy and they are going to take a video of it. It as in the new but it seems that the school didnt do anything about it. I feel so sorry for the younger kid because he hit his head on the floor. Maybe it was nothing too serious but I always think that schools should to something if cases like this happen. In the place where you are at right now, do you have rules for students who bullies other students? What are these rules and are they effective?
4 responses
@3k1sm4n (10)
• Philippines
8 Mar 10
To answer your question, I'm a college student and as far as my stay at the institute, there hasn't been any bullying that had happened.
I feel terrible for that poor 7-year old kid. But I think there is nothing much to do about it, since there isn't anything serious about the injury and they're both minors. Or the kid's parent may file a complaint regarding the issue.
@p3ks626 (6538)
• Philippines
8 Mar 10
I feel terrible for him too. Things like this is not common among college students, they are more common among elementary school students. And it made me even sadder when I found out from my sister that my nephew was also being bullied by a classmate. He was not physically hurt but he was asked by the bigger kid for some money. I just hope that the school will do something about it or maybe some kids would be brave to fight back if possible. 
@p3ks626 (6538)
• Philippines
9 Mar 10
My sister told the teacher about it already. But the teacher can not monitor all 30 students in her class, he is usually being bullied when it is break time so the teacher also is taking a break. My nephew is a very nice boy. He never fights with anyone even if sometimes my brother is already telling him to fight back or stand up against this kid who bullied him. It doesnt run in his blood I guess for him to do something like that. I just hope that something has to be done about it.
@3k1sm4n (10)
• Philippines
8 Mar 10
That's just sad, having a relative experience the sort of the same thing.
A tip, you can maybe teach your nephew to stand up to that bully. One way is to tell him to inform the teacher when he is being "bullied" by the bully. That may seem to be cowardice but I think you'd prefer it than resorting to physical violence. Or a more practical one, have him make friends at school ( if he doesn't have any) so that he'd have some support when he is being bullied. Two is always better than one, as the song goes.. ;)
@phoenix8606 (4942)
•
7 Mar 10
hi! I think they must be expeled from the school/university, because as we all know, the school/university as an institution is place where young people sometime also adults go to study and learn something new, and not a place where they got bullied from some one . that's why i really thing they must be turned out permanently!
@p3ks626 (6538)
• Philippines
8 Mar 10
Sometimes even if some students are already expelled they still do the same things when they come back to school. I think it is also wrong to put them out permanently because they are just kids and they might need something else other than being expelled. I dont know the exact answer for this but sometimes, school administrator should also have some things to do about situation like this. I think it would be a good think if there would be a compromise between the parents of the students and the school. Maybe it will also help.
@megamatt (14292)
• United States
9 Mar 10
I think it is easy to just punish a person for bullying but its just too easy and is not really getting to the root of the problem. There is a chance that a student that bullies others has some other deep rooted problem. Granted, its not in all cases, some of them are just plain jerks that enjoy picking up others smaller than them to make themselves feel big. However, there could be other issues that lead to bullying.
Still the schools should do something and they really have to do something. Given how lawsuit happy people are these days, the school could be liable for the actions of the bully. What if the most unfortunate happens, and the bullying escalates to the most ugly level possible, with the person being bullied getting seriously injured or worse. That's what could happen if the bullying is allowed to continue. So there should be some harsh punishment but unfortunately, it might not completely solve a deeper issue that goes along with bullying.
@draniembohol (55)
• Philippines
9 Mar 10
every school has its own code of discipline because that is one policy that authorities find when they issue permits for the school to operate. sad to note that the school authorities doesn't do their own implementation regarding the code of discipline. every schools are required to have a policy on code of discipline. the school authorities are responsible enough if they tolerate such abusive acts. i am just disappointed of these incidents that happens to these kids and school authorities doesn't do anything about it.
