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Normally, the responsibility of teaching kids discipline and appropriate behavior lies in the hands of their families. Unfortunately, in today’s society many children come from broken homes with no support system to teach them how to socially interact with others. This enables the school system a unique opportunity to intervene and prevent bullying from beginning. Schools could, and should be teaching kids to treat each individual equally. There must also be a zero tolerance policy, meaning even if there is only a suspected case of bullying, it should be investigated and dealt with appropriately. Adding punishments for suspected accusers would also decrease the total number of offenses. School kids would not risk recess time, detentions, or Saturday schools just to make a degrading or malicious comment towards someone. Encouraging better discipline and discouraging poor decisions with punishment would result in overall better
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Since teachers spend the most time with students, and are therefore able to relate with students, than they should be the primary resources for drafting the guidelines, rather than other faculty members or school board members. People who do not spend a lot of time with children should not develop the rules and guidelines designed to protect children. Current anti-bullying programs back that up by their continual failure to prevent bullying from schools. The people who do not spend an adequate amount of time with kids do not have an accurate idea of the interactions between children. A committee or group made up of teachers only would allow them come up with the best set of guidelines possible for the situation. Whether those new rules and guidelines are enforced is another issue. School systems should enact a plan to monitor the everyday activities of the playgrounds, hallways, and lunch rooms. Using cameras or simply requiring staff to monitor children more closely, would discourage bullying. If kids are aware that they are being monitored, and that they will suffer consequences from it, then they are less likely to act upon their impulses to bully. Enforcement of these guidelines would, indeed, be a taxing process, but the lives and comfort of children
Since teachers spend the most time with students, and are therefore able to relate with students, than they should be the primary resources for drafting the guidelines, rather than other faculty members or school board members. People who do not spend a lot of time with children should not develop the rules and guidelines designed to protect children. Current anti-bullying programs back that up by their continual failure to prevent bullying from schools. The people who do not spend an adequate amount of time with kids do not have an accurate idea of the interactions between children. A committee or group made up of teachers only would allow them come up with the best set of guidelines possible for the situation. Whether those new rules and guidelines are enforced is another issue. School systems should enact a plan to monitor the everyday activities of the playgrounds, hallways, and lunch rooms. Using cameras or simply requiring staff to monitor children more closely, would discourage bullying. If kids are aware that they are being monitored, and that they will suffer consequences from it, then they are less likely to act upon their impulses to bully. Enforcement of these guidelines would, indeed, be a taxing process, but the lives and comfort of children