Let's look for solution in this bullying saga

Let's look for solution in this bullying saga


The recent reports of bullying in Alliance high school has caught many parents with surprise. Bullying has been going on unabated in secondary as well as colleges and it is a high time it was stopped. A lady was once admitted at a teacher training college and in that  college there was a tradition of welcoming first years. The first years had been nicknamed "mraru" and the first day was the day of inducting them in the college. The very day they were admitted they were informed that there was a meeting in one of the dorm,so the smartly clad first year were all herded in one dorm and escorted to the cold shower room and showered with their clothes on plus the hair, done usually after 10.00 pm that is when they received the showers of blessing and in the morning parade the song "showers of blessing" is sung to the chagrin of the second years. This used to happen to both men and women. That year it caused a furore as one student went to report how she was mistreated the previous night. The head student was demoted and the institution took drastic measures to stop the bullying. These first years, when they became second years, stopped the  tradition of bullying 1st years as they had experienced it. This bullying is real  and there are many factors which cause bullying. This include economic, social as well as the background of a student (age).When students report in a college or a boarding school, let care be taken to know more about the student. The student may have come from an abusive home, maybe an orphan,children home,coming from a well off family or the student may have repeated classes several times. A good example is a school in Nairobi where students are entrusted to look after one another. Each form one is given a caregiver. The form one student has a mentor,someone to take  good care of him in case of a problem,assist him,counsel and in the end they inform the authorities of anything unusual about  the student which they may have noticed on the new student. This way the teachers get the right information on a student's behaviour very early and they can help the student early. In this school bullying cannot be perpetrated because each student regard each other as a brother and is responsible for the well being of another fellow student especially the new ones. This way the students can sing a song such "By the fruits of the spirit are love,joy peace,patience kindness,goodness,faithfulness, gentleness,self-control against that there is no law (Galatian 5). This is what should be practiced in schools.
By
Veronica Onjoro
Mombasa

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