This week in Sped 200

This week in Sped 200 we talked about bullying, and what goes on in schools. And what we as teachers need to look out for, and what steps we can take to make sure that ever student is safe in a school environment. This topic of bullying hits so many students in different ways. Each child has their own testimony of how they were affected by bullying. It may not have happened to them directly but they know of someone, or maybe they them self were the bully. Listening to stories and reading articles of children that are so young take their own life because of bullying. Something needs to be done. More schools need policies to protect these children. So many are taking their own life. And its not just elementary students, some college kids have to deal with this. This issue isn’t going away anytime soon so something needs to be done. I went to a school that felt strongly about bullying but our school had reason to feel that way. 2 innocent kids died because of bullying. I hope that no other school has to go that far, to get a wake up call about this subject. In the wake of my schools situation, came some good. We had strict no bullying policies and we got involved in extra programs that enforced these policies. If every school took the time and money to implement these programs, fewer kids would be afraid to come to school. And the best part kids would not feel the need to take their own lives. It’s up to us as teachers to make sure that stuff like what we are seeing now, never happens again.