Until when? Bullying at the school that preaches social inclusion

Abstract

There is not a person who has never heard of cases of embarrassment to which students are continuously submitted to by their classmates. Unfortunately, the phenomenon called bullying, a term in English that means harassment, is more widespread than one can assume. There is evidence from a study of 400 Brazilian public and private school students, of the occurrence of physical or psychological violence acts, intentional and repeatedly, among such students. The study was motivated by the anguish and worries of school that have not been able to solve the problem of violence within them all by themselves. When interviewed for diagnosis of their situation, children and adolescents point out bullying as a serious problem reaching them. However, the most significant data finding of this investigation relates to a question that was purposely inserted in the survey about bullying (based on the experimentations of Dan Olweus): children and adolescents are overlooked, humiliated or mocked by their own teachers. Such statement allows us to conclude that in school there is still a gap concerning the ways educators at different school levels intervene in the daily conflicts, as well as think about the moral shaping of their students.