Bullying is an act to hurt someone’s feelings, either male or female. Usually the victims are children who tend to be quiet and have difficulty socializing with friends around them. Generally, victims of bullying have physical disabilities or have strange habits. Bullies can also have problems with people around them or from their families, one of which is a broken home because their parents left them so that they have habits that are not like other children and finally the child has no one to guide them to become a good person.
Bullying is often found in public places. One of them is the school environment. The school environment is a place for teaching and learning and seeking achievements for future provisions. However, it turns out that schools are places for children to bully. Bullying itself has a bad impact on children, for example, they become less confident and will interfere with the child’s mental health so that the child is increasingly unable to socialize with his friends. Usually this is not known by teachers, who should create schools as comfortable places for teaching and learning but instead become places that are feared by children because of bullying cases. If the bullying case gets worse, the victim’s parents may report it to the school to be given good direction so that the bullying case does not increase and the children can learn comfortably.
The victims who are bullied are not only boys but the most common are girls. Bullies often bully their friends not at school but on social media without the knowledge of the teacher, parents or the bullied child. They often bully by physically belittling the person. Examples of bullying are not only belittling the child’s physical appearance but can also be by hitting, pulling a friend’s hair on purpose, embarrassing a friend in public with an element of intent, mocking a friend, and many more. In Indonesia, cases of bullying are increasing. Many children do not want to go to school because of these cases. However, with direct awareness, teachers finally intervene to eradicate bullying cases by advising students not to tease or commit violence between friends and putting up anti-bullying posters on the class wall.
It can be concluded that bullying is a violent behavior towards someone that can disrupt mental health and hurt the feelings of someone who is bullied. Because bullying can be found in various places and social media, but the most common is at school. The reason people bully can also be because the person doesn’t like or there is a problem between the victim and the bully, finally the bully mocks the victim or tells other people to ostracize the victim. In order to prevent bullying, schools should hold activities that involve parents and students so that there are no problems related to bullying. If we are bullied at school, we can report it to the teacher for further handling. Bullying is not good because it can damage a child’s mental health. There is even a saying that mental illness is more painful and more difficult to cure than physical illness. Because mental illness is invisible to the eye. So there needs to be awareness from each individual not to bully because it will affect a person’s mentality.
BY: ICHA NADIA VERLITASARI
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