Teachers + Bullying

[fairmaiden]

I feel like schools should do more to stop bullying. I'm sure there are plenty of schools out there that have an effective anti-bullying policy, but I know full well that there are quite a lot who don't.

I don't know if there is a legislation or a law in place that tells teachers to deal with bullying effectively, but if there isn't, I think there should be.

I also feel like people aren't aware about teachers bullying children. Some people think it's acceptable the way some teachers treat children, and don't do anything about it. There is a line between banter and bullying, and I think that teachers bullying children has unfortunately become normalised in some schools.

What are your views on this?

[tasminsmith]

my school and others near here are like 0 tolerance on bullying but they don't do anything I think they should try to stop it more but they never do.

[Stronk Serb]

They don't care here. Sometimes us, the students, have to take matters in our own hands to restore Ordnung. When I'm protect my weaker friends. They deserve at least that much.

[Babs]

I do not have any public school experience, but from what I hear the public schools in my town are shit.
I know someone who brags about beating people up on a regular basis but faced very few repricussions. Eventually, she did get expelled but only after years of it happening.

[SethfromMI]

well if the teachers are bullying they should be fired. however, I would have to ask how is bullying being interpreted in that situation.

sometimes teachers are told not to butt in unless they are asked or unless it is an emergency situation. it would be nice if they could, but sometimes they are told not to meddle. I agree more should be done, but even if there are stricter rules, bullying will always be around (sadly) in some forms

[ImCoolBeans]

We had a pretty strict bullying policy at my high school, but to be frank it didn't work out very well. It didn't really do anything to prevent bullying, instead it focused on harsh punishment for the bullies, who didn't really seem to mind.

In my developmental psych class this semester we're learning a lot about emotional intelligence, which is not really taught/reinforced in schools anywhere. Studies and programs in both the US and the UK which focused on strengthening emotional intelligence in younger children have shown positive effects against bullying. Emotional intelligence entails recognizing emotions that are happening inside of you, managing your emotions, recognizing emotions in others and understanding them either by analyzing them or by putting yourself the other persons shoes (empathy). It can takes years to become emotionally intelligent, and requires more effort than just hearing about it in a class, but if reinforced in schools, I think it could potentially help to decrease the number of bullying cases over time.

I've had a few teachers in the past who were border-line bullies themselves and treated/talked to students really poorly. Some people talk down to children/teens because they feel like they are inferior, and may not even realize that they are doing it, but some people are just plain mean and really shouldn't be teachers, if they can't create a good, healthy learning environment.

[Atom]

Why not fight back though?

[Abhorrence]

The amount of talks our school gets about bullying is ridiculous considering nobody does anything about it.

[fairmaiden]

Why not fight back though?
It's not always possible to fight back. How is a 10 year old kid supposed to fight back against a 30+ year old teacher?

[Mil1dreded]

If I thought a teacher was bullying or was abusing their position I'd go to a higher authority than them then if that didn't work screw them I wouldn't put up with being pushed around mind you I suppose not everyone is like that

[Atom]

How is a 10 year old kid supposed to fight back against a 30+ year old teacher?
They should tell their parents, encourage them (parents) to sue the teacher. Or sue the school. School then will most likely fire the teacher to avoid legal issues.

[fairmaiden]

They should tell their parents, encourage them (parents) to sue the teacher. Or sue the school. School then will most likely fire the teacher to avoid legal issues.
Whoops, I assumed you meant physically fight back aha.

I agree with you on that. I think people should definitely tell their parents when they're being bullied, however plenty of children are blackmailed by their bullies with remarks such as ''If you tell anyone I'll hurt you'' etc. etc. I think that suing a school may take alot of energy and emotionally drain parents so I think they should only do that if it's their last option.

[dirtyboxer55]

ive never seen a teacher bully a student

[fairmaiden]

ive never seen a teacher bully a student
Just because you don't see something happen, doesn't mean it doesn't happen to other people.

[Stronk Serb]

ive never seen a teacher bully a student

The Serbian teacher does it here all the time. Because grading an essay is tricky business here she grades shit ones with good grades if they were written by students she likes and gives a passing grade to me even though I wrote a top-notch essay. Shouldn't have corrected the bitch on basic history. Now it's biting me by the ass since October.

[fairmaiden]

The Serbian teacher does it here all the time. Because grading an essay is tricky business here she grades shit ones with good grades if they were written by students she likes and gives a passing grade to me even though I wrote a top-notch essay. Shouldn't have corrected the bitch on basic history. Now it's biting me by the ass since October.
That sucks. She's basically disadvantaging you and others out of favouritism for certain people. She shouldn't be a teacher.

[dirtyboxer55]

Here teachers wait untill the victim snaps, to punish them instead.

Just because you don't see something happen, doesn't mean it doesn't happen to other people.

well i wasnt saying that

Double post merged ~ Mike/ImCoolBeans

[Stronk Serb]

That sucks. She's basically disadvantaging you and others out of favouritism for certain people. She shouldn't be a teacher.

She's grading me bad because of what she percieved as an argument. I just corrected her that it's impossible a guy that died in 1811 could live in Austria-Hungary since it was declared 56 years later. Also she gave an F to one of my classmates even though she deserved a higher grade. She's with the ruling party so there's no way of getting her replaced.

Here teachers wait untill the victim snaps, to punish them instead.

As in a guy get's bullied for months and then goes apeshit and kicks the bully's ass? That happens here, happened to me.

[Leprous]

Svarog That's exactly what I meant.

[fairmaiden]

Here teachers wait untill the victim snaps, to punish them instead.



well i wasnt saying that

Double post merged ~ Mike/ImCoolBeans
Well, that's what I thought you were implying.

She's grading me bad because of what she percieved as an argument. I just corrected her that it's impossible a guy that died in 1811 could live in Austria-Hungary since it was declared 56 years later. Also she gave an F to one of my classmates even though she deserved a higher grade. She's with the ruling party so there's no way of getting her replaced.
Ah I understand exactly what you mean. From as young as Year 3(2nd grade), teachers always hated me because if they had blantantly lied to me/said something I didn't agree with, I politely disagreed with them. This caused them to try and disadvantage me by giving me abysmally low scores for tests.

A good example of this is when I got into an ''argument'' with the teacher in Year 6 (5th grade) because she was angry that I chose gun control as as a subject for my essay. She had previously said that we had to do a controversial subject for the essay, but she still got angry with me because I had chosen such a ''controversial'' subject, even though that is exactly what she asked us to do. She deliberately nit-picked my essay, knocking off major points over minor errors such as forgetting to put a comma in a sentence. After that, any work that I did for her would be regarded as below standard. She would snap at me for any reason just because I had previously had an ''argument'' with her on something that I had every right to disagree with. I was 10 years old, and she was in her late thirties yet she acted like a 3 year old.

Alot of my friends go through similar things but they don't think it's bullying, even though it is. This is why I think teacher-bullying has become normalised in some schools. Sorry this was so long aha

[jordanhardy]

It's difficult for teachers to completely stop bullying, in fact id say its impossible. It's one of those things that will never go away. Bullying can take place anywhere, at any time and in many different ways. The Internet and social media doesn't help, how can a teacher or school effectively control what kids say to each other on Facebook or something like that. They can always issue out punishment if caught, however it's like criminals and the police, crime will always be committed unfortunately.

[Meh Guy]

I feel like schools should do more to stop bullying. I'm sure there are plenty of schools out there that have an effective anti-bullying policy, but I know full well that there are quite a lot who don't.

I don't know if there is a legislation or a law in place that tells teachers to deal with bullying effectively, but if there isn't, I think there should be.

I also feel like people aren't aware about teachers bullying children. Some people think it's acceptable the way some teachers treat children, and don't do anything about it. There is a line between banter and bullying, and I think that teachers bullying children has unfortunately become normalised in some schools.

What are your views on this?

I've never really experienced any bullying from higher than grade school. I think we all grew up and stopped being such asshats. But I'm sure it does still exist. Honestly, bullying is way too over the top than it needs to be, if little Billy gets pushed on the playground let him deal with it. All children have to deal with this stuff. If little Billy is getting told he is worthless and gay and such, sure, get someone else involved.

As for teachers bullying kids, if it's less than grade 8, yeah I find that a little wrong. High school, unless they're causing a detrimental environmental because of their treatment, grow the hell up.