ACADEMIC WRITING

Name: Yunita Hidanatun Nisa
NIM: 1610117120020

The teaching and learning process must be carried out in a good and conducive atmosphere. Students in the class feel at home taking part; each of them must support good learning. However, class can be a bad condition while students feel depressed. One of the triggers is bullying carried out by them consciously or unconsciously. Their intention is to be cheerful, but it can be exaggerating so that this condition creates problems in their learning in the classroom. Oppression itself is seen as part of aggressive behavior (Olweus, 1999), which is expressed openly and directly. For those who feel stressed out of bullying, it will have an adverse effect on them which ends in suicide.

Bullying is often a fear for students, parents, and educators. According to Frey and Fisher (2008), bullying has become a persistent part of school life and can be very difficult to avoid. Therefore, a number of cases of bullying that occur in schools have become their own fears in the world of education. Therefore, it is important for parents and education circles to recognize the bullying that occurs in students to prevent something worse. As for some of the symptoms of bullying that we can see in plain view such as being reluctant to go to school, often getting sick suddenly, experiencing impairment, nightmares or even difficulty sleeping, etc.  Psychologically, those actions will have a negative impact on the child.

Bullying that often occurs in the school environment is violence perpetrated by seniors to juniors. The seniors put pressure on the juniors and even seniors who had the heart to persecute their juniors. Therefore, if bullying behavior occurs within the school environment, learning motivation which is one of the important factors in implementing the learning process and student achievement will be disrupted. According to Biggs and Tefler (in Dimyati and Mudjiono, 2006), students' learning motivation that becomes weak and lacks motivation or lack of learning motivation will weaken activities, so the quality of learning achievement will be low.

Besides of influencing the development of learning, bullying can also affect psychological development. According to Coloroso (2007), bullying is an act of intimidation carried out repeatedly by the stronger party against the weaker party, carried out intentionally and aims to hurt the victim physically and emotionally. As a result of something done repeatedly, children who are victims of bullying have a higher risk of depression and anxiety. This easily anxious feeling does not only occur when they are still victims, it gets worse as they grow older. In addition, victims of bullying will shut themselves down from people because they think that no one else can be trusted or love them. Even they will feel always insecure wherever they are. And the worst is being able to act as perpetrators of bullying.