School bullying

Bullying can happen almost everywhere as long as human beings interact with each other. But when it happens in school, it warrants us to look into it more seriously as the school is a place designed to teach the pupils not only academically but also to shape them up with good discipline and acceptable standard of morality.

If from young the students are learning how to bully their classmates or school mates, you can imagine what are they going to be when they are adults. Perhaps that is why there are more and more mat rempits, gangsters and criminals around, as these people have been learning the tricks of abusing others who are weaker than them in the school.

There is an imbalance of power everywhere, in society, in workplace, in government or even in school. And too bad that those which are weaker in terms of power, be it social power, financial power or merely physical power always become the victims of the bullying. Perhaps Charles Darwin is right to have used that famous phrase “Survival of the fittest” in his interpretation of evolution of species on this planet. But then again, fittest in the context of survival doesn’t not necessary means physical strength or otherwise, this planet will be ruled by dinosaurs.

Sometimes even the teachers also become the victims of bullying and you can see how the younger generation nowadays have become so rude and lack of respect for their peers or teachers. The so-called bullies or bad students could be those coming from broken families and actually lacking love and care from their own families and thus, how could we expect them to behave if their parents are those with gangster’s behaviour or mentality?

If the schools are out of resources to educate those exceptionally bad or hopeless students, the least they could do is to protect those victims with prompt and appropriate actions so that the weaker ones are not emotionally disturbed and become too afraid to go to school. Otherwise, there will be more and more school dropouts and it is not in any way benefiting anyone.