Dilemmas Of Bullying In Schools

“LUNDU: Four secondary school students detained for alleged bullying” This is something that is not rare for us to read anymore at a newspaper. Bully is a very popular disease among school student nowadays. Although life is a thought fight, but not’s everyone’s a fighter. Students with money and power tend to harm other students and cease their dignity of the entire school life. They usually put a target on someone who is quiet; have low self-esteem and the ones who look weak to them. Bullying is not something new in our society. The act of bullying is defined to as any ill behaviour that is repeated by one student or group of students toward another, leaving that person helpless. The school bullying also takes different forms, it can be verbal …show more content…
School counsellor needs to be aware of their roles as protectors of the school. School counsellor needs to look at the root of this problem. School counsellor needs to find the reason students commit bullying and they should come up with an intervention strategy that can help them to become a new person. After they found the reason, why this troubled students commit bullying they have to make a counselling session with the students. These students must attend a counselling programme with full commitment and the urge to become a better person. The school counsellor is also must make sure that the programme that they done with the students runs smoothly to instil desirable behaviour among students. According to B.F Skinner, a psychologist, reward and punishment are necessary in the early stage in behaviour change. In the other words, if the students behave in acceptable ways and they are rewarded, it will make them feel appreciated and will encourage them to behave in acceptable ways continually. On the other hand, if the students behave in acceptable ways and doesn’t have rewarded for what they do, they will feel discouraged and will commit bullying again in order to gain attention from the …show more content…
New mass media forms, including the Internet and social media, have proved to be the most dangerous. Each home in this world is equipped with internet service and cabled television. The media content is conveniently available by the teenagers. Many service providers are airing the movie that oscillates the plot about bullying for higher viewership. Violence in the media has been increasing and reaching proportions that are dangerous,” said Emanuel Tanay, a retired Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Wayne State University. Some movie had even glorified bullying and “Juvana” a local blockbuster movie is one of the examples of local production that illustrate the bullying activities in schools. Young students who still cannot differentiate fiction from reality will copy their idol’s behaviour in the movie whether it is good or not. Mass media should limit what they want to show at media. The service provider must carefully vets the programmes before they air it to the public. In my opinion, the service provider should increase education programmes where students can learn from