Student's Awareness on Republic Act 10627: Basis for a Proposed Anti-Bullying Scheme

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Students’ varying backgrounds, culture, beliefs, attitudes and the like is a contributing factor to the incidence of bullying among students in school.

The researcher would like to determine the common bullying act encountered by the pupils in school, factors that trigger students to commit bullying and what actions may be taken to address bullying acts demonstrated by the school children.

Moreover, the researcher also aims to conduct a series of activities that will broaden parents' awareness of the existing anti bullying policy of the Department of Education and the school's localized Anti Bullying Policy.

METHODS

This action research used a descriptive research design. The researcher used checklist to determine the common bullying practices in school and conducted an interview of the respondents to determine the common reasons why students commit bullying act. An action plan was made by the researcher to lessen if not eradicate the bullying incidences in school. The statistical treatment used was frequency weighted mean and ranking.

RESULTS

Nasty jokes to embarrass and humiliate co students ranked first in the category of social bullying acts with 51 out of 69 students/respondents. Encouraging others to exclude someone got the second rank with 41 out of 69, while lying and spreading rumors ranked third. T add, mimicking and negative facial gestures were deemed not likely to happen as shown by the results

The results showed cyber bullying and abusive hurtful texts, and deliberate exclusion of others online and nasty gossips or rumors to not likely happen in the particular school in this study with scores of 24 and 19 and respectively.

DISCUSSIONS

Among the specified bullying acts, respondents assessed that tripping and destruction of personal property, teasing and playing nasty jokes to embarrass and humiliate are the most common bullying acts committed by the pupils in this particular school. Pupils revealed that they have been physically hurt by other students through pinching that have resulted to bruises. Pinching ranked second in the checklist. Intentional pushing against the wall, to the ground or towards other pupils, and name calling such as "ugly", "pandak", "usngal" crossed eyed" and many others which cause great humiliation ranked third in the list with 55 pupils conceding to have encountered the said physical and verbal abuse.