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Manchidi Marinkie
Grade 8
Glen Cowie Secondary school

How school should deal with
bullying
According to bing, bullying is the use
of force, threats, or coercion to abuse,
intimidate, or aggressively dominate
other. The behaviour is often repeated and
habitual. The issue of bullying often starts at
home. A lot of children come from different
walks of life, some children can start bullying
because they want to decrease their stress
levels, some do it for fun and to look
superior, some are driven by peer pressure
and this can lead to lack of educated minds
in our generation.

Talking of different background, parents
often abuse their children emotionally and
physically, this causes the children to imitate
their actions by bullying other kids, they because when they do so the kids see it as
develop anger and use other people as their something cool. That is why they tend to do
punching bags. it to other kids. They eventually feel like they
have power over their peers.
Bullying can result to a lot of dangerous
things, victims may think of committing Parents and educators should also advise Social workers can also try to come up with
suicide because they want to get away from learners on how to behave, respect and programmes that will help children deal with
all of the emotional and physical trauma. love. They should be there for victim of bullying.
Some victims begin bullying others as a way bullying. Parents should show their children If all these action can be implemented,
of avenging themselves, and as a way of the importance of loving and caring for bullies in school are going to decrease
feeling superior. The increase in bullying in other, the importance of considering other because people will learn to love one
schools causes a lot of drop-outs as learners people’s feelings, that way, children will another. The more we show love to one
get afraid of experiencing something very learn to act fairly amongst each other. another, the more South Africa grows, wise
painful each day. and bold. Learners will no longer be afraid to
Communication is very important, so to also
The only way to prevent bullying from help with the destroying of bullying parents go to school because of bullies. The level of
occurring is by allowing teachers to take should talk to their kids in a very firm and discipline in schools will increase, as learners
responsibility of their learners, by this i mean strong way, they should tell them about the will be respected.
that teachers should also engage in helping outcomes of bullying. Parents should have If schools and communities can work
bullies and their victims. Parents should also a little pep-talk with their kids, teaching together they can deal with bullying, firmly
stop arguing in front of their children, them to live in kindness and humanity. and assertively.

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