Incidents of violent children on the rise in schools
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Experts report that the number of incidents in schools in the United States is steadily increasing when school children use violence against their classmates.
As the results of the survey show, in adults, opinions about when children's antics go abroad are permissible.
Researchers at the University of Michigan have conducted a survey to find out what they think is a mockery and when the administration of the school interferes in a situation that is out of control.
The overwhelming majority of adults (95%) say that the school should take action if one schoolboy is afraid of another and feels threatened to his health.
81% of respondents said that the school should intervene when someone insults or humiliates another student, and 76% called for intervention if someone spreads any unflattering rumors.
The only one where the interviewed agreed completely, this is because the response to intimidation and humiliation should not be part of the educational process. With a child who has allowed himself such behavior, you need to hold conversations and not let everything go on its own.
Harassment and bullying are not uncommon in school. Usually, children begin to ridicule those children who do not dress like they do in their environment, behave, behave. The reason for this attitude is often good assessments.
The problem of relationships within the school collective surfaced once again in 1999, when a tragedy occurred that shocked the entire public.
On April 20, 1999, there was a mass murder in Columbine School (Jefferson County, Colorado, USA). High school students Dylan Klibold and Eric Harris shot school personnel and their classmates. As a result, thirty-seven people were wounded, thirteen of whom did not survive. After the incident, the shooting schoolchildren committed suicide.
The tragedy caused a shock and, of course, heated discussions, why and what prompted the two boys to take up arms and send it against their own comrades.
In the center of the conversations were questions of school group conflicts, the impact of video games and films on their minds.
In the "Top-10" rating of the most serious problems with the health of the child, there were also bullying, which were evaluated as a serious threat to the life and health of children. According to national analytical studies of Risky Behavior Among Youth in 2011, 20% of schoolchildren reported that they were victims of bullying.
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