For me, personally, I wonder how much formal “prep” is enough when it comes to an issue like this. I mean, how can experiencing bullying in your own classroom shake up your understanding of the issue? Don’t students change, grow, and mature? Are the same strategies going to work in every classroom. This is why I feel it’s so very important to keep growing and developing as a teacher in order to expand the ways we deal with bullying in the classroom. This issue is in no way going to fix itself, and it’s by constant reflection and reevaluation of our teaching methods in the classroom that we can hopefully see real change.
I think the awareness should be integrated into the curriculum. Teacher training and books can be the start. Also, there should be a national marketing campaign utilizing musicians, actors and sport celebrities, as well as regular kids and grown ups who were abused. Only a comprehensive national campaign can really make a difference and reach across all aspects of American society.
Watching all the videos of bullying brought out some serious issues from high
school...being called a foreign exchange student, even though i was a naturalized American, and told to leave the country, even though i was legally there...the first few years of this abuse it did not sink in, now it is all very real all over again.
school...being called a foreign exchange student, even though i was a naturalized American, and told to leave the country, even though i was legally there...the first few years of this abuse it did not sink in, now it is all very real all over again.
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