Violence and Aggression

As we may know that these days violence often happens in school, either teacher to student, or student to student. According to my experience before when I was teaching in a primary school, I had this student who did not want to listen to the lesson. One day during a lesson, when his teacher was teaching, he tore his book. His friends were trying to remind him not to do that, but he did not care. Then one of his friends tried to stop him, but apparently all of sudden he took a scissors to stab that friend. Fortunately the teacher could stop him by grabbing student’s hands. It was the first time I experience violence at school. At that time I did not know what to do because I was shocked.

However as teachers we could ask their parents to meet up and talk about it over. Actually I did that, but I never had the chance to meet his parents because both of his parents were very busy. I was hoping that I could meet his parents even just once, apparently I had no luck. I have learned my lesson through that experience. Since then, I always try to approach each student in my class personally so they can always tell or share everything they want to.