Bullying

                Based on several articles that I had read, there were so many opinions about the definition of bullying. However, there is a common condition that we can conclude about bullying. Bullying was happened when there was someone who weaker getting hurt by the stronger for evil reason. According to this conclusion, bullying was very possible to be happened in social life especially to children with special needs. Their character which was weak, needed special help and had unusual behavior easily became the target to be victim of bullying from their friends. That was one of issues about bullying in inclusive education that happened to the student with special needs like Ken. An article titled “Don’t laugh at me, don’t call me name” told about bullying experienced by Ken, students with Asperger Syndrome (AS).

                Student with AS have unique characteristics, there are tend to be eager. Based on the story about Brandon, we couldn’t blame his friends about bullying that they did. They did bullying to Brandon because of their disappointed. They thought that Brandon had betrayed them by telling school police man about their habit to smoke at school area. From this case, I think the first thing that must be done to avoid bullying students with special needs is openness about the condition of students with special needs. Hopefully with this openness, the other students will understand and know how to interact to student with special needs. And for enhance the other students’ understanding about respect in interacting to students with special needs children, school need to do socialization about bullying included the effect for the victim and the bully itself. Agree with Jan Blacher and friends (the writer) that the socialization must be given not only to the students, but also to the teacher, parents even staff. All elements at school have important role to build the positive environment that free from bullying. Especially for teacher, they must be prepared by skill about how to overcome bullying at school.

                James and Debra added on their article, titled “Bullying and Violence in School”, that school and teacher must be wise in designing the rule to prevent bullying at school or classroom. I think the teacher must be creative not only in designing effective rule in the classroom but also in designing lesson supported by activities which build kinship among students to love and respect each other. Teacher also could periodically do sharing session which involves whole students. On that session teacher and students will know if there were any student who felt being bullied, then together solve that problem. Teacher must able to build homey environment at school and make all students feel like a big family.

                Nowadays, bullying is one of trending topic to be discussed. Bullying not only happened in education but also in all aspect in our real life. Even comedian on TV Show often used bullying as an effective way for entertaining people. It is one of fact about what James and Debra said at their article that media provide a culture to bully. As a source of information, media should show something good and influence society not to do bullying. Especially for TV Show as the most popular media, it should provide educated entertain for society. Not stop with the TV, through the development of technology, kind of bullying also developed to be various ways. Cyntia G. Wagner explained on her article that there is Cyber Bullies. Kind of Cyber Bullies are stranger was posting altered pornographic using our photo, etc.

Overall, many facts about bullying above showed that bullying has become very close to our real life. It is not impossible that we are one victim or even the bully that hurt our friends. Even the development of technology became media for increasing of bullying. I think, the main cause of this condition is the decreasing of human awareness about bullying. The development of technology wasn’t followed by the development of human awareness about bullying. The low of human awareness was caused by the low knowledge about bullying included the effect of bullying for the victim and the bully. So the solution is, needed a socialization about bullying for society. Hopefully, media can be an agent to enhance human knowledge about bullying through educated TV Show, etc.