All schools should implement bullying awareness programs

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All schools should implement bullying awareness programs

Bullying in schools occurs so much to the extent of one thinking that it is a norm. Bullying is an activity that occurs within and outside the confinements of schools, but a majority of the cases happens in the absence of elders. Bullying is an act of torturing others physically or psychologically. In schools, it occurs by students inflicting physical pain on others, abusing or mocking them. In addition, the activity can also be carried out emotionally, where students isolate themselves from other students. In turn, the stigmatized students end up being victims of bullying. Bullying has detrimental effects to both the culprit exercising the act and the victim of the same. Subsequently, it is of considerable concern that schools formulate bullying awareness programs to harness the ever-growing bullying habit that eats into schools and endangers the future of many students.

            Research shows that children who take advantage of others and bully them have high chances of turning to criminal activities when they grow up. Moreover, the research also informs readers that the bullying effect may be transferred to spouses when one grows up. It is also shocking to learn that bullies may end up becoming child abusers in future. In this case, it calls for action to prevent bullying from prevailing in schools as the effects impact many people in the society (Kobus, web). Bullying awareness programs measure up to be an ideal channel through which many schools and authorities can stop bullying in schools. These programs employ various strategies to spread bullying awareness and educate people on means of preventing bullying occurrences.

On that note, the following are means through which these programs work. One of the means is by providing online help through websites. The programs can be accessed through the internet where the websites feed a lot of information to the readers. In such websites, the programs provide educative information in regards to the bullying topic. The information tends to provide information on how one may notice a bullying victim or a bully. This information is helpful to both parents and the authoritative figures in schools. In addition, the programs also offer the most appropriate approach for the victims and the executors as a precaution to avoid the situation from becoming worse. The online help is also accessible to students, mainly the victims of bullying. They acquire information on the course of action to undertake when being bullied from the websites (Kobus, web). Furthermore, through the websites, they also have a chance of handling the problem in a discreet way as they can access the material at their own time.

Moreover, bullying awareness programs can also be implemented in schools and the communities other than just on the internet. This can be executed by making physical visits to schools, presenting talks on the subject, and providing different solutions to undertake in order to curb the problem. This way many students are provided with a chance to learn the effects bullying can have on an individual, whether one is the bully or the victim. On that note, schools can easily implement bullying awareness programs in their systems (Langevin, web).  In addition, the programs also offer psychiatric services to take care of the already affected students. This way, students, especially the victims, are offered a proper way of dealing with trauma and other negative effects obtained from bullying. Counseling is also a part of the program and students receive psychological help as they deal with their situations. The pieces of advice indeed help the students face their fears appropriately and prevent harmful retaliations from the victims towards the bullies.

The bullying awareness programs should offer a way of shielding the weak students from facing bullies. This is quite beneficial for students since it would avoid them from experiencing effects such as mental breakdown, poor performances in schools and skipping school. Students’ concentration in class tends to be heightened by various factors such as peace of mind. Having a program offering such protection, many students will be comfortable thus increasing their concentration (Langevin, web).

Including teachers in the programs is a significant step to take within schools and towards the students. Teachers are the authoritative figures in sch.............