DianaStudents are violent in schools?Surely not!
March 19th 2008 00:43
Violence is permeating my life. At night the neighbours argue, yell and throw chairs; they swear and curse each other. I don't know it they come to blows. Sounds like it though.
In my family, I have been having trouble with my 9 year old boy punching and bullying one of his sisters. Toying with the idea of banning the tv this year, last night I went one step further and ripped the tv, dvd player and stuff from the wall and locked it all away.
This is beacuse I am suspecting that some of the shows and dvd's my son watches are causing him to be grumpy, aggressive and even violent. Also, he won't do his homework, doesn't practise his guitar and is becoming lazy. So. Out it goes.
The school I am teaching at today has recently combined with another school and ever since violence has simmered just below the surface.
Gangs of different races clash violently at recess and bullying is rife. Many students stay at home, afraid to come to school.
On my second week I came across a boy sobbing on the floor in one of the classrooms having been beaten and bullied by a rampaging gang. The boy was terrified and couldn't stand up.
He suffers from mild autism and is bullied or tormented nearly every day.
This was the worst ever though.
As I knew the boy quite well, I cut through the group of teacher-aides dithering around him and comforted the boy while ringing the front office on my mobile for urgent assistance.
This incident upset many staff and for me followed a day at my other school where a 12 year old boy had had his hand broken by a gang of 13 year olds.
Returning to my faculty office to catch up with my colleagues, I was apalled to discover that our newest recruit to the department, a diminutive first-year-out, had been itimidated and bullied by a group of 16 year old boys, who had danced around her in a circle, taunting and singing and not letting her get away. This had occurred in an isolated part of the playground while she was on yard duty late the previous week. Finally escaping, she had run to the principal's office.
While we tried to comfort her, we listened as she told us she couldn't come to school for three days but stayed home crying and shaken.
I thought this was bad enough but apparently yesterday she was slapped and kicked by a 13 year old girl and was again reduced to tears.
The level of anger, violence and out-of-control behaviour simply chills me to the bone. How did we get to this stage? How do we stop it?
More later, gotta go teach; just make sure I've got the number for 'back-up', should I need it!
In my family, I have been having trouble with my 9 year old boy punching and bullying one of his sisters. Toying with the idea of banning the tv this year, last night I went one step further and ripped the tv, dvd player and stuff from the wall and locked it all away.
This is beacuse I am suspecting that some of the shows and dvd's my son watches are causing him to be grumpy, aggressive and even violent. Also, he won't do his homework, doesn't practise his guitar and is becoming lazy. So. Out it goes.
The school I am teaching at today has recently combined with another school and ever since violence has simmered just below the surface.
Gangs of different races clash violently at recess and bullying is rife. Many students stay at home, afraid to come to school.
On my second week I came across a boy sobbing on the floor in one of the classrooms having been beaten and bullied by a rampaging gang. The boy was terrified and couldn't stand up.
He suffers from mild autism and is bullied or tormented nearly every day.
This was the worst ever though.
As I knew the boy quite well, I cut through the group of teacher-aides dithering around him and comforted the boy while ringing the front office on my mobile for urgent assistance.
This incident upset many staff and for me followed a day at my other school where a 12 year old boy had had his hand broken by a gang of 13 year olds.
Returning to my faculty office to catch up with my colleagues, I was apalled to discover that our newest recruit to the department, a diminutive first-year-out, had been itimidated and bullied by a group of 16 year old boys, who had danced around her in a circle, taunting and singing and not letting her get away. This had occurred in an isolated part of the playground while she was on yard duty late the previous week. Finally escaping, she had run to the principal's office.
While we tried to comfort her, we listened as she told us she couldn't come to school for three days but stayed home crying and shaken.
I thought this was bad enough but apparently yesterday she was slapped and kicked by a 13 year old girl and was again reduced to tears.
The level of anger, violence and out-of-control behaviour simply chills me to the bone. How did we get to this stage? How do we stop it?
More later, gotta go teach; just make sure I've got the number for 'back-up', should I need it!
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