Summary Article "Bullying at School" by Carla Janet

Bullying is a case that often occurs in school, actually bullying can occur in everywhere, but it is mostly happen in school. High school is the last opportunity for educators to teach students, meanwhile for students, this is their last activity to change their attitude and behavior by associating bullying or victimization before they become an adult. High school era is an era whereby students find out their self. Everything can be happening on this era.

Bullying characteristic can be physical, relational or psychological. It can be direct behaviors, such as teasing, taunting, as we can see some students naming their friend with a nickname, such as “big bottom”, “glasses man” and moreover. Racial, it could be happen when one student come from minority ethnic. Sexual slurs or harassment, threatening, hitting and stealing (Harris , Petrie & Willounghby. 2002) Also could be happening in bullying. But indirect behaviors occasionally occurs such as spreading rumors by gossiping, socially excluding students, and dirty looks in passing are much harder to catch and prove.

According to the author middle school is the highest rates of bullying than any school level. It can be directly or indirectly bullying approximately same between male and female, however males is often being bullied than females, but it is slightly different.

According to Harris and Harthorn (2006), bullying is more indirect and likely to occur with an older student bullying a younger one. These indirect behaviors could be giving hurtful, nicknames, making humiliating remarks, mocking others feel alone at school… it is emotional violence that inflicts others

A combination between verbal bullying and action bullying is a majority that we can find in secondary schools. The location that negative actions are taking place in vary with the ages of the students as well as the type of bullying going on. However many indirect actions of bullying takes place inside classroom or in the hallways right in front of teachers and other students.

Why bullying do happen in schools?. It cannot be avoided, all we have to do are giving an information, education to the children, It could be from the school members themselves or the family itself. Interventions within the family are extremely important , but educators, especially by high school, do not always have access to parents of the students in question. Schools need to have supports for the family should choose to use them as a guider. The school acts as a moderator of this case, providing evening workshop and presentations for the community, connecting parents to outside supports, and providing students with developmental and comprehensive programming that addresses the multifaceted issues surround bullying, self development and citizenship.

For students that are actively being bullying should be provided as an intervention by the schools’ counselor or support from service team, before the counselor helps creating suitable interventions, first there must be understanding of who student is and what their experiences with bullying have been.

To sum up, bullying does not need to be a reality that students face. If schools work together  actively and associate with parents by adopting prevention program, the issues of bullying will not happen in school.

From the text above, we can see about bullying prevention program is needed solution to anticipate an existence of bullying in school. 

So that it can decrease bullying case, without bullying, students will feel comfortable to study. For minimizing bullying, school itself should create some activities for all students to spent students' time. 

Thus there is no gap for some students to do the bullying. Make Perform self-empowerment for each student, for example improving self confidence for students, realizing themselves that every person has their own strengths and weaknesses which have to be accepted, do not need to discourage themselves, just in case others try knock themselves down, always do remember that they have their own capability, so when students face the bullying, they can overcome it by themselves, at least, the person who does the bullying will stop doing it. 

Thus it can create school environment free of bullying.