GAKI

GAKI or NEIGHBORHOOD/SCHOOL BULLY remains one of the biggest problems here. On second thought, it is also one of the main problems in schools or communities elsewhere. * BULLIES abound when none of the neighborhood kids or elders, for that matter, fight back, or remain silent and allow these abuses to go on. BULLYING starts at home, I believe.They start when parents allow their kids to do as they please...and when parents allow one, two, three times their kids to do as they want, then the kids know that they have won the battle. Remember the adage? >>>"THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE..." Parents have the basic duty to train a child they bring into the world the best they could. A line in the Bible says:>"TRAIN A CHILD IN THE WAY YOU WANT HIM TO BE,SO THAT WHEN HE GROWS OLD, HE WILL NOT DEPART FROM IT."< ** It is when kids bully other kids in the neighborhood and in school that problems of delinquency is magnified.It is in school where kids start to abuse others physically, mentally and oftentimes, socially the weak ones or the quiet type. *** BULLIES in this country have often posed problems beyond control. There were times when such bullying acts went beyond the normal kicking, or fistsights. There were money involved and when victims can no longer bear the brunt of physical and mental abuse, they resort to suicide. There were ocassions when the bullies kill their victims. More often, vice versa. The percentage of BULLIES are so much here that the problem sometimes are uncontrollable. It remains one of the biggest problems of the School system. I suspect one of my students is a bully. At the onset, he was loudmouthing everyone. I tried to befriend him and allowed him to say what he feels. Later as I gained his confidence, I tried to praise him at the same time correct [in a mild manner] his actions. **** LOOKING BACK, I am glad I have heard of only a few bullies reprimanded by our School Guidance Counselors in Inang Bayan. But with the current set-up in schools these days, some schools have reported that they were asked to delete the position of Guidance Counselors from their Plantilla as ordered by the DepEd...... I wonder then what will happen to our school system from hereon.... ***** HAVE YOU MET A BULLY TODAY? ...or IS YOUR CHILD A BULLY? *