Mobilizing Teachers and Parents to Respond toIncidences of Bullying and its Perceived Effects on Grade Five Pupils of the Wawa Elementary School: An Input to an Anti-bullying Reinforcement Program

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

In the experience of the researcher, most bullied and bully children in the past school years did not finish the grade level and were either retained or dropped. Realizing the role class advisers play inside the classroom, she knew there was a need to take or ask the aid of parents in thwarting bullying by mobilizing them about the incidences of bullying and its perceived effects on Grade Five pupils of Wawa Elementary School. she placed into consideration the effects of an anti-bullying program that documented and acted on issues and incidences of bullying. The objectives of her study were to determine how Grade Five pupils and their parents perceive bullying at Wawa Elementary School. Likewise, it also aimed to determine the effects of bullying on learning and the actions that had been done by teachers in addressing bullying in their classrooms. Finally, an anti-bullying reinforcement program was proposed to address the problem of bullying.

METHODS

Theresearcher utilized the descriptive design to find answers to the questions raised in this study. The purposive sampling technique was used to select the pupil-respondents of this study and the parents of these pupils as well. A researcher-made questionnaire was the main instrument used. Peer validation of the questionnaire was done to ensure that all the emergent bullying tracks were included in the study. In treating the responses of the respondents, the weighted mean was used.

RESULTS

Results showed that teachers were very much aware of bullying while not all the parents were aware of its existence in the classrooms. Most of the pupil-respondents were not aware that they had been bullying other pupils or they were being bullied. Most parents and pupils were aware of its tremendous effects only if they were called to a conference with the adviser and guidance counselor for cases of bullying or being the victim of bullying.

DISCUSSIONS

The respondents were aware of the scars left on them as they were bullied. Those who were bullies realized the effects of their actions only after the teacher advised them. As bullying incidences arose, teachers of Grade Five level had acted at once on these incidences but admitted the need for an anti-bullying reinforcement program. As a result, the anti-bullying reinforcement program was proposed to address the problem of bullying. The program enlisted the roles of parents as they act with teachers during incidences of bullying.