Teachers react to Verbal Bullying Case: : Public or Private?

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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!

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