The Australian Covert Bullying Prevalence Study (Child health promotion centre, 2009) showed striking result that almost half (48%) of all Year 9 students had either been bullied or bullied others, and 29 percent of them were experiencing frequent bullying. Bullying is no doubly a top issue for schools, parents, and students that need to be dealt with seriously . The Victorian government had set up the Bully Stopper program to tackle with this issue, and had spent up to two million and seven hundred thousand dollars grant for over 270 Victorian schools to develop their own bullying prevention program (Department of education and training Victoria, 2016). While vast resources and efforts had been devoted into building effective programs and
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Convert bullying, which is not included by the school, is defined by ACBPS (Child health promotion research centre 2009) as the bullying behaviour that are “discreet [… and…] ‘not seen by adults’” and are difficult for adults to notice, including Cyber bullying. With the development of technology, convert bullying is expected to have bigger impact as the bullying behaviour can be done stealthy and quickly be widespread. Furthermore, statistics from the ACBPS showed that cyber-bullying is a now major form of bullying. Thus listing out definition of bullying, like what the school did, may actually be undesirable, as bullies would then seek to practice bullying behaviours that are not listed. Even if the school desired to have behaviours listed, it would be necessary to keep the list up-to-date with new bullying behaviours. For example, convert bullying should also be added to the school’s definition. The school’s definition on cyber-bullying, “Sending inappropriate text messages on mobile phones or via email, either to or about another student.”, is also not adequate as a lot of the students now use social medias and anonymous apps as mediums for cyber …show more content…
In this circumstances, Borgwald and Theixos (2013) thus argued that suspension, which eventually asked the bullies to spend more time at home, may actually negatively reinforcing the bullying behaviours. Moreover, since parents from such families tend to have less time or effort for emphasising their children’s behaviour, informing parents or eating between parents may not necessarily be the most effective approach. However, it is worth noticing that as an independent girl school, students of the school are likely to come from more privileged background with educated parents. In such case, these methods may still show positive outcomes for this particular school. On the other hand, ACBPS (2009) showed that instead of adults, two-third of the victims turned to peers for help. The school’s current policy depends solely on the victims to initiatively seek help from trusted staffs. This can be problematic as firstly, it is possible that students may not have trust in any staff, and more importantly, many victims will simply stay quite with teaching staffs, even though the promise of keeping discussion confidential from other students may encourages student willingness to seek help from
Convert bullying, which is not included by the school, is defined by ACBPS (Child health promotion research centre 2009) as the bullying behaviour that are “discreet [… and…] ‘not seen by adults’” and are difficult for adults to notice, including Cyber bullying. With the development of technology, convert bullying is expected to have bigger impact as the bullying behaviour can be done stealthy and quickly be widespread. Furthermore, statistics from the ACBPS showed that cyber-bullying is a now major form of bullying. Thus listing out definition of bullying, like what the school did, may actually be undesirable, as bullies would then seek to practice bullying behaviours that are not listed. Even if the school desired to have behaviours listed, it would be necessary to keep the list up-to-date with new bullying behaviours. For example, convert bullying should also be added to the school’s definition. The school’s definition on cyber-bullying, “Sending inappropriate text messages on mobile phones or via email, either to or about another student.”, is also not adequate as a lot of the students now use social medias and anonymous apps as mediums for cyber …show more content…
In this circumstances, Borgwald and Theixos (2013) thus argued that suspension, which eventually asked the bullies to spend more time at home, may actually negatively reinforcing the bullying behaviours. Moreover, since parents from such families tend to have less time or effort for emphasising their children’s behaviour, informing parents or eating between parents may not necessarily be the most effective approach. However, it is worth noticing that as an independent girl school, students of the school are likely to come from more privileged background with educated parents. In such case, these methods may still show positive outcomes for this particular school. On the other hand, ACBPS (2009) showed that instead of adults, two-third of the victims turned to peers for help. The school’s current policy depends solely on the victims to initiatively seek help from trusted staffs. This can be problematic as firstly, it is possible that students may not have trust in any staff, and more importantly, many victims will simply stay quite with teaching staffs, even though the promise of keeping discussion confidential from other students may encourages student willingness to seek help from