If you are the parent of a child attending elementary, middle, or high school, there is a very high chance that your child has witnessed bullying behavior committed against younger or more vulnerably exposed students. For this reason anti bullying in schools should take on a key role of the general School Safety Plan and be developed within a Comprehensive Education Plan, allowing for funding to be allocated throughout the school year for new programs.

To enable everyone in the school to be knowledgeable about bullying and its fundamental signs, programs dealing with bullying should be used as part of teachers’ workshops, as well as the anti bullying campaigns within the schools incorporating the wearing of wristbands, displaying of posters and provision of programs for other members of staff.

Bullying in schools is occurring not only in this country but all over the globe, and even though it is mainly younger children who are the victims, it is necessary for officials at district, local and state level to legislate laws to ultimately deal with this behavior on a school system wide level so that children of all ages can have a good education without fear and uncalled for pressure.

Unfortunately bullying isn’t just confined solely to schools. It also happens in workplaces as well. However, the majority who suffer from bullying are children. This makes them skip school, or leave early, unable to concentrate on their school work and frightened each day when they leave school to take the journey home. Their self esteem is quickly lost, they become anti social and sluggish and as seen recently in the News, in extreme cases this can lead to school shootings and other kinds of violence.

Therefore, anti bullying within schools has to become the number one priority, not just a single entry on a long list of rules and regulations believed to be appropriate by school officials. There is a debate going on at the moment as to whether bullying should even be a part of any form of legislation as it appears to be commonly felt that the School Safety Plan adequately covers this kind of behavior. Regrettably, the people who initiate the outline for these plans are unlikely to have ever set foot in the school environment of today, and are probably totally unaware of just what goes on.

Those persons working in schools each day such as, guidance counselors, teachers, custodians, school aides, paraprofessionals, administrators, and support staff are more conscious of how children are being bullied within schools and what occurs in general on a day to day basis, along with Parents Coordinators which are now a part of the school system.

It makes sense then for anti bullying to be delineated by those who deal with it each and every day; the caretakers of children; the educators who try to teach and counsel children and the school-based support team who pay attention to such troubles and give advice to the children on a daily basis. This insidious problem can be put an end to if the above mentioned people are allowed to introduce programs and do their bit towards the legislation required.