how can we encourage schools to implement their anti-bullying policy and do more to raise awareness?

Question

ideas that can be implemented in the school/curriculum to raise awareness,

keeping the parents involved

fundraising day etc

Answer 1

This is an extremely good question.
The real answer to this is -
1. Smaller class pupil size.
2. More teachers in attendance.
3. Stronger punishment for offenders.

Answer 2

If you really want to address it as a long term goal, you should put a strong focus on either education majors in the universities or working with school districts with their first and second year teachers. I think a lot of great programs fail because they come to a school and try to tell a teacher of 15 years how to do their job better... there is no chance that person will adopt even one of your ideas, it would just be too impossibly difficult for them. But if you focus on the next generation teachers, these people haven't yet solidified their teaching styles and are very open to new, stronger techniques.

Answer 3

Parents and school staff need more encouragement to work together - in my experience, school staff feel they need to justify the situation to protect the image of the school, on the other hand parents are retaliating, so we can end up with a hostile situation. Children are exposed to this 'uncomfortable atmosphere', and this can lead to problems for both parties.

I feel if parents* could get involved with the school, in a department allowing them to share their own strengths:-

- Assisting in the classroom
- Library and resources
- Canteen
- Admin
- Supervising problem areas within the school
- Projects of mutual interest (staff and pupils)
- Sports ( maybe bond parents and their child/ren)

The children could get involved too, creative parents can have creative children, projects that are mutual between parents and their children can be shared with pupils and staff. Bullies would be in less situations when they can bully, and bullies getting to know their victims in a more mutaul environment can only rub off.

Yes it may sound a little optomistic but slowly introduced at nursery level would be a good way to start.

Thank you for reading - although I may go on a little at times



*Possibly on a flexible scheme instead of a rota, ie working parents being able to have more flexibity, weekends, afterschool, breakfast club (kill 2 birds with one stone) Fitness (again killing 2 birds and a possible income for the school) - could employers be encouraged in someway - Government scheme?

Answer 4

Thats a really good question but the answer is better parental control in the first place. Schools bash their heads against brick walls when trying to deal with bullies whose parents don't back up the school.

I know if my child was a bully I would be down on them like a ton of bricks and hopefully, I have brought her up not to be a bully.

Bullies tend to have been bullied themselves in their own families, so how do we sort that out?

Answer 5

i do not know which part of the globe you are from. i feel exposure to certain amount of bullying is good.it not only teaches kids to understand hierarchy,and also when to graduate from an "object" to"subject".even within the family sibling rivalry is a sort of bullying.best thing to do would be to keep an eye or half-an-eye and to step in when things shows trend of going out control.
after all we don't want our children to be kept in a incubator or ICU for their whole life.the children should live normal life and evolve. immunisaton program is a sort of bullying and making the body to recognise and to be able to react when accosted by foriegn bodies. well that is my view.well it takes all sorts.

Answer 6

I would suggest summary executions for the offenders, but I reckon folks would throw a fit about that.