Bullying toward Students as Victims at School

Name             : Angel Chrisdyanti
Reg. Number : 1610117320005

Bullying toward Students as Victims at School

The teaching learning process should be conducted in well and conducive atmosphere. The students in the class feel at home in taking part; every of them should support good learning. Nevertheless, the class can be bad condition while the students feel depressed. One of the triger is bullying that is done by among them consciously or unconsciously. Their intention is for cheefulness, but it can be exaggerating so that this condition creates the problem in their learning in the class. Bullying itself is seen as a subset of aggressive behaviour (Olweus, 1999), that is expressed in a open, direct way. For those who feel stress because of bullying, it will give bad effect for them ending with suicide.

Bullying nowadays can be called as original second sin. No one deserves to be bullied and be the bully. The bully takes away others (subject of bullying) confidence and voice, and leave them with no option but to suffer in silence. As human being not easy to spot the signs of bullying as it is now always physical or real. Storey (2016) notes that work with children or students and help them to develop their social skills so that they know how to stand up to bullying before it starts and escalates. Emotional and verbal can often leave scars that people do not see. Wholehearted people will not put others down, though they lift victims up by supporting and respecting.

Numerous students (children and teens) have suffered bullying in their life. Bullying intends to hurt, to upset, and and to distress everyone as subject of the bullying. Bullying can have huge impact on students’ mental or psychological health. If they are still being bullied at school, their whole life would be miserable. According to Copeland (2013), this psychological damage does not just go away because a person grew up and is no longer bullied, this something that stays with them. There are big impacts on victims of bullying’s psychological that can be seen such as they are cautious, withdrawn, insecure, anxious, unhappy, and have low self-esteem. Mostly bullying victims feel scared and reclusive which can lead them to have feelings of embarrassment and insulted everyday in their life.

The effect of bullying does not only impact on students’ psychological but also on their learning process at school. Olweus (1993) describes the behavior of the bully-victims tends to elicit negative reactions from many students in the classroom, and the teacher often dislikes them also. They extremely hard to make friends, out of their comfort zone and create new circle of friends and enviroments. Plenty of subjects of bullying choose an adult become their friends rather than peers because easy to talk with someone who mostly choose respect on and protect others got bullied. In learning process, bullying causes students become loss control, ruin school stuffs (book, pencil case, bag, money, and so on), always decline school projects which all of those can be seen that they have no trust and source of happiness at school. Otherwise, they do not feel school as amazing place like it supposed to be for learners.