School Bullying and Student’s Development

School Bullying and Student’s Development

Bullying

Bullying is one of the major social challenges facing youth in our schools today. Ann and Aidan (2004) observe that there are two main types of bullying namely indirect and direct bullying. Students directly bully each other by fighting, kicking, pushing, and attacking using any available weapon. Indirect bullying entails gossiping, discriminating, teasing, and cyberbullying. The authors also denote that bullying creates a very poor environment for learning and adversely incapacitates the victims.

This paper entails an empirical research study that was carried out on a student to study the level of bullying in the specified school. It has been followed by an analysis of the findings through a review of theoretical literature.

A grade five child was chosen for the interview to ensure a higher probability of getting factual statistics since studies have shown that the youngest learners in terms of age are the most vulnerable victims to bullying (Gordon, Kathryn & Ann, 2012). The interview was conducted during a normal school day when students were out for a short break. The student being interviewed was engaged randomly in a conversation that was started at one edge of the football court.

The boy looked relaxed and responded to the interviewer’s questions well. Their twenty-minute interview focused on the general aspects of the student’s life in and outside the school, especially when relating with his peers. The interview questions and respective responses from the interviewee are tabled below.

Analysis

Deborah and Kathleen (2011) observe that out of the five developmental domains in children, cognitive and social developments are vividly distinguished from emotional and physical developments since they are greatly influenced by the outside inputs into a child’s life cycle. Besides, the existence of bullying modifies the victim’s abstract thinking, problem-solving skills, the general perception of suffering, social task attachment, and interaction with others.

Gordon, Kathryn, and Ann (2012) posit that a young person’s development into a cognitive socially healthy individual takes several factors into play. For instance, the interviewee exhibited significant evidence of bullying at school. This was characterized by materialism, heroism, and immortality when he claimed that all he wants is to be rich even at his age. The impact of bullying was profound as noted in the nature and mood of the interviewee’s reactions to the questions.

The intellectual development is dictated by the ability of a student to continue analyzing what has been taught in class and willingness to have dreams