aggression and violence

Another Story of Aggression and Violence

            Nowadays, teacher, parents and students are facing another complex problem that often happened in school which is aggression and violence. Aggression and violence is a different thing. Aggression is kind of misbehavior but it does not injure other people while violence is more dangerous that aggression because it can injure the other people and destroy public facilities. I often watched news on television that reported about High school students who did brawling with another schools or even being involved in bullying case. That was a serious problem that can endanger students, teachers, parents and the entire stakeholder if those problems cannot be handled wisely.

            I had experience with those problems when I was in senior high school. My high school is well known as one of school in Jakarta which often did brawling. All the juniors (boys) have to join it otherwise they will be bullied by seniors. Brawling includes as violence crime and my school has a very strict rule about that. If there are any students who did brawling then they will be given punishment or the worst they can be expelled from school. Brawling is already part of tradition in my school. Another case was about bullying. It commonly happened among female students. In my school it was also became tradition where my seniors (girls) would do bullying to their juniors (girls) without any clear reasons. They were like morons because they bullied their juniors only because juniors were more stylish or even popular from her seniors. If they are caught by the teacher then they would take responsibility for their actions in front of the counselor teachers.

            In MMSEL class my friends presented a very tragic video about bullying that happened in US and in the end the victim died by doing suicide. From the incidents that happened around me, I got many lesson learnt. Teachers’ responsibility is not only to make students know everything that they did not know yet. Teachers, parents should be aware that recent incidents are pretty enough to make us reflect that smart is nothing without balance it with good attitudes and good moral. One of the solutions is the entire stakeholders should highlight the importance of affective during the teaching and learning process.