VIOLENCE

IN SCHOOL
 Lesson Objectives:

• Recognize the types, causes and effects of

existing violence in school
• Demonstrate appropriate acts to avoid school
violence
What is a school to you?
 VALUES CLARIFICATION

• School Violence
Violence refers to the unlawful exercise of physical
force or intimidation by the exhibition of such force. Any
verbal, visual, or physical act that is purposely
demeaning or harmful to the personal space or civil
rights of another is categorized as Violence.
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In school, violent acts includes all forms of emotional

and physical bullying such as ridicule, assaults and
threats. In particular, violence in school includes any
deliberate or malicious act of intimidating, threatening,
or causing pain to others in physical (body contact),
verbal (words), non verbal (gestures) or electronic
(cyberbullying) means.
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• Anti-bullying Act Law
Tackling violence in school roots back to the issue of bullying
or the use of strength or influence to harm or intimidate those who
are weaker. Republic Act 10627 or the Anti-Bullying Act of 2013
states that “bullying shall refer to any severe or repeated use by one
or more students of a written, verbal or electronic expression, or a
physical act or gesture, or any combination thereof,
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directed at another student that has the effect of actually
causing or placing the latter in reasonable fear of physical or
emotional harm or damage to property, creating a hostile
environment at school for the other student; infringing on the
rights of the other student at school; or materially and
substantially disrupting the education process of the orderly
operation of a school; such as, but not limited to, the following:
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• a. Any unwanted physical contact between the bully and the

victim like punching, pushing, shoving, kicking, slapping,
tickling, headlocks, inflicting school pranks, teasing,
fighting and the use of available object or weapons;
• b. Any act that causes damage to a victim’s psyche and/or
emotional well-being;
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• c. Any slanderous statement or accusation that causes the

victim undue emotional distress like directing foul language
or profanity at the target, name-calling, tormenting and
commenting negatively on victim’s looks, clothes and body;
and
• d. Cyberbullying or any bullying done through the use of
technology or any electronic means.”
Bullying is developed in a child that is caused by either of the
following:
1. influence of home environment (e.g., negative parenting styles,
domestic abuse/violence)
2. influence of media (e.g., violence in movies, television programs,
video games)
3. influence of youth culture (e.g., new media or digital technologies
such as the internet and
modern popular culture transmitted via the mass media and aimed
particularly at younger people such as music, comics etc)
4. influence of social factors (e.g., culture clashes because of
multicultural environment, poverty-related stress)
Effects of Bullying to Student Victims

It is important to know that age, gender, and

life status are not significant indicators for a person to be a
potential bully or victim. Bullies come in different sizes,
shapes, places, backgrounds, and relationships. One may
even play as friend at one time and a bully at another time.
Victims of bullying and other forms of violence in school suffer
from one or more of the following:
1. Absenteeism – withdrawal from school due to fear and lack
of motivation
2. Depression – feeling severe dejection, lack of energy, and
loss of hope and courage
3. Poor health – result of eating and sleeping disorders
4. Low self-esteem – lack of confidence in one’s own worth or
abilities, a feeling of inadequacy or inability to deal with a situation or
with life.
5. Drug or alcohol abuse – resorting to vices including alcoholic
drinks such as liquors or illegal substance or stimulants
6. Poor school performance – result lack of motivation to study and
inability to cope with school demands due to absenteeism or
depression.
7. Post-traumatic stress disorder – a condition of persistent mental
and emotional stress occurring as a result of injury or severe
psychological shock, typically involving disturbance of sleep and
constant vivid recall of a negative experience
8. Suicide – the act of intentionally and disastrously harming oneself
that may often result in death.
 Child Protection Policy
Prior to the approval of the Anti-Bullying Act of
2013, the Department of Education through Dep.Ed Order No.40,
series of 2012, had already ordered the establishment of Child
Protection Policy (CPP) in all elementary and secondary schools
in the country. The CPP in each school is run by a committee that
systematize the investigation on and the resolution to any
bullying incident or violence on campus.
 Child Protection Policy

All students deserve to enjoy full emotional

security in learning environments that capitalize on
mutual respect, free from harmful or demeaning acts or
words, and guided by anti-violence policies. In order to
establish this, students and school authorities should
adopt concrete policies and campaigns such as the
following :
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1. empowering the teachers and all school personnel to enforce existing
policies against school violence
2. mobilizing the student council to create anti-bullying advocacies on
campus and even online
3. increasing awareness of students on the importance of preserving the
dignity of others by becoming active rather than passive bystanders; thus,
reporting to the proper school authorities any case of school violence for
immediate response or resolution.
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4. reminding others the adverse impact or consequence of joining unauthorized
fraternities and giving in to peer pressure that often result to violence
5. strengthening home-school partnership by involving parents in school-based
advocacies against bullying, ensuring their support and commitment to follow up at
home and coordinate with school officials’ reports concerning their children involved
in violent acts
6. allowing the guidance counsellors to design recovery program or restorative
approach to discipline, wherein both victims of bullying and bullies themselves
agree to terms of reconciliation in order to avoid future altercations or troubles.
Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us
do good, especially to those who belong
to the family of believers
GALATIANS 6:10
 Rodel and calls Kriselda a fat duck. She usually overhears
the girls from her batch talking about how her fat arms swing
during the school performance. Now Kriselda barely touches
her food. She despises anything on the table