Teachers react to Verbal Bullying Case: : Public or Private?
[Discussion]
Teachers react to Verbal Bullying Case:
: Public or Private?
When you think that becoming a teacher
is merely a job which only care about lesson plan, students’ understanding, and
students’ score, it can be right but it is kind of wrong. Why? Because teacher
not only hold the responsibility on students performance in class and their own
performance as teacer because they also need to be responsible in students’
behaviour and also the effect that will occur if they do a misbehaviour in
public.
Don’t you believe that? I mean, when
you see a brawl done by students in the street, a school name will be most
likely to be associated rather than the parents’ name right?. Eventhough they
are not fighting in sake of the school purpose but a girl for example, the name
which will be more associated is still their school. For example, you may have
seen a news like “A brawl between students’ High School X and High School Y”
rather than seeing something like “ A brawl between A’s son and B’s son”. The
school will be the one which is firstly to be put in a news or magazine, and it
means that the school is the one that get the blame, the embrassment, and the
bad reputation. If a school get all those things, a teacher as one of the
component of the school will surely get to be responsible since they will be
judged as fail in educating their students.
Well, that’s only an example because
we won’t talk about that in this post. It’s just a big example to show that
teacher also should be responsible in students’ behaviour as a product created
through learning in your class. Phew~ becoming a teacher is a tough job, isn’t
it?
Now, let me drag you to a other
kinds of students’ violence since violence doesn’t always means a literal
fight. This kind of violence sometimes not being seriously considered because
it does not involve physical harrassment. This violence is verbally used. The
example is when you ever call your friend a pig because they are fat, or has
big nose, or nerd, or stupid even only for a joke. It is considered as
bullying. Even you just make it only for a joke, does not mean it applied to
the recipient of those bad names right?
Sometimes,
this kind of bullying missed to be solved seriously because people think it
will not make people die just because being called fat. However, when you see
this problem thoroughly, there are a lot of case of depression and suicide
because of this bullying type. Thus, as a teacher we should act fast and aware
in order to prevent those thing in our classroom.
Verbal
bullying is basically happen in various types of circumstances. When you are
too smart, you’ll be bullied, too nerd, also bullied, too ugly, won’t miss to
be bullied, or even too fat, too pretty, too cool, too different. Well, can you
see that sometimes kids are just too creative since they can simply make any
kinds of condition of individuals as a potential source of bullying. Anyway, if
it’s only a joke and both parties accept it, it won’t be problematic. The thing
is, when it is become a serious problem and cause depression and suicide, then
a teacher should play their role.
Sometimes, this kind of bullying missed to be solved seriously because people think it will not make people die just because being called fat. However, when you see this problem thoroughly, there are a lot of case of depression and suicide because of this bullying type.
Public
or Private? In this case I would like invite you for a small brainstorming
activity. If you are a teacher, what will you do in order to solve a verbal
bullying case? Will you do public or solve it personally with the person
related to the case?
Public
in this case means that since this case can be only a few parts of a whole big
formation of bullying case over the school. Thus, you will choose to talk about
it in public to let everyone know that this kind of case is highly not
tolerated and thus needs to be stopped. However, the minus points of this type,
you will let the people directly involved in the case get the embarassing
situation since they can be both victim or the actor of bullying and it may
hurt either their pride or their self-esteem.
In
the other hand, if you go private you will just invite the students related to
the case personally and try to have a kind of mediation to solve the problem
and give warning to the students in order to stop those kind of bullying
action. However, other students will feel that they still can secure if they do
it anyway since they will only being called by teacher and won’t get any shame
in doing it. In the other hand, it won’t be a source of example to other
students since it is privatelly discussed.
If
you are a teacher, which type will you choose? Go public, or Go Private? Let’s
discuss!
