Guide against bullying, act against the Law of Silence

How to fight a problem when it is not known if it exists? The bullying It is a situation that is usually experienced in many schools in the country, but it is very difficult for someone to report a case. Especially the students themselves who suffer bullying or who witness any of these cases. For this reason, one of the battles against this scourge is to end with the well-known "Law of Silence".

In fact, this is one of the points addressed in the Guide to End School Bullying that is offered from Catholic Schools. A treatise that explains several considerations that must take into account to understand the situation that many schools and many students in these classrooms go through.


Fear of consequences

From Catholic Schools, educators are invited to ask themselves why a child would be silenced by the experience of an injustice. The answer is the fear of consequences, the fear of being considered a snitch or to be the focus of the same aggressions. Many children believe that if they let parents or teachers know what they are living or have seen, the situation could get worse.

At this point, teaching professionals are encouraged to be alert to detect cases of harassment or discrimination and work to change the conception of the image of "sneak"The one who reports a case of bullying is not doing anything wrong, quite the opposite, it is ending an unfair situation and helping a classmate.


For this purpose nothing better than to make them understand the courage of those who help their colleagues and work for the empathy of the most little ones. They can also be offered ways to tell what they know so they do not fear reprisals. In the case of the victim it must be made known that they will not be alone and that they will always have someone to ask for help in case of reprisals for the complaint.

From home, parents should make it clear that whenever they need it, they will have their parents by their side. It is also convenient to show the children the help that the security forces can give them. In the event that the situation worsens, it is not absurd to start the judicial process in order to put an end to the harassment that lives on a daily basis. boy.

Awareness

Another agency that works to end bullying is the Foundation for Assistance to Children and Adolescents at Risk, ANAR. This entity highlights the increase in the complaints collected by its helpline, an increase that should not be understood as a bad thing. On the contrary, this context means that more and more children call to talk about their situation, a good first step since these victims have become aware of the need to make their situation visible and means that they have begun to lose the fear of speaking of what happens to them.


This context also assumes that when children have access to tools of denunciation, make use of them. In this case, the ANAR telephone number, which is increasingly used by victims of bullying. However, there is still much to be done, such as making the children understand the need to inform their families.

To this day something more than 30% of minors who called the telephone of this organism recognizes that it did not communicate it to his parents and suffered it in silence. A fact to which the privacy of social networks contributes, a place that many adults can not access due to the refusal of their children. It is important that minors who have such accounts in these websites accept their parents in the list of friends and that there is a fluent communication in case of a case of cyberbullying.

Damián Montero

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