Ways of Preventing Bullying (#17)

I think an important thing to remember is that bullying effects children sometimes physically, but more importantly it always effects children emotionally.  To prevent  bullying in schools, you can make students take an elective class about cyber bullying.  High-schools all over have already started doing this.  This class brings awareness to the students, and makes them truly realize how detrimental it can be.  Starting at an early age, students become bullies or are bullied.  To stop bullying from happening in elementary schools, you can have a seminar on uniqueness and equality.  People are different.  They look different and they act different.  Just because someone doesn’t act like you or look like you doesn’t mean that they deserve to be talked about or bullied.  Create, as a school, a conduct code, a mission statement, and bullying report system.  It is important that children feel like they can tell on a bully.  Students need to know that if they stand up for a child being bullied that they will not be bullied in return.  As teachers, our role is to be aware of what is going on in the hallways, lunch, and recess.  We need to be approachable so that students feel like they can trust us and tell us if someone is being bullied.  Most importantly, we need to build a safe environment for children .