The phenomenon of bullying so debated today, in school and most recently in relationships on-line, it is a persistent immoral behavior that has existed for many years.
Bullying is a term born in England and debated among the nations, principally at the UN. We can say that it is one of the themes of the hour.
I remember when I was studying then in pre-school and my little friends called me “cricket”, an affectionate last name but I was furious. There were day s that I did not want to go to school, that was 40 years ago, the difference is that in school professors were little worried about these type of attacks. They said these were the things of children.
All well that actually the discourse about bullying is on pedagogical procedures in all schools, but in practice the kids are continuing to commit bullying.
Recent data reveals that bullying affects school performance of the attacker as much as the attacked, this affects their self-esteem and making them feel anxious from suffering. The interventions in the base of persecution or speaking on the part of professors and experts in education brings little result.
On;y schools that attack the problem across ample debate with all the school community, with great participation of the parents can contemplate some result in the long run. Otherwise, it is going to be left to actions of suspension of students that practice bullying. Worse, yet, the school then proceeds with expulsion of those students. Among youth when the law is rigid and without clear effect of discipline, the problem is being poorly attacked. It is better to invest in the culture of peace, of a permanent form in all areas in and continually meeting with the parents.
Why so much focus on the parents? because from the first year of life, it is the parents who introduce the culture of the attack. In simple attitudes of a mother who says that her son is a little trouble-maker, she already is committing bullying. When the father says that his son is lazy, he is committing bullying.
Gerson Arbaca
Gerson Arbaca is a Catholic Psychologist, he writes from Brazil.