Why is Bullying Such a Serious Problem in the School System

    Bullying is an act or behavior to hurt a person or group of people either verbally, physically, or psychologically so that the victim feels depressed, traumatized, and helpless. In addition, bullying is a form of aggressive behavior with a dominant force on behavior that is carried out repeatedly with the aim of disturbing other children or victims who are weaker than him. The word bullying itself comes from the English language, namely from the word bull which means a bull who likes to duck here and there.

    Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development defines bullying occurs when a person or group of people interfere with or threaten the safety and health of a person either physically or psokologis, threatening property, reputation or social acceptance of a person and is done repeatedly and continuously.

Bullying itself is divided into several types:
1. Physical Bullying
    Physical bullying is the most visible and identifiable type of bullying among other forms of bullying. Types of physical bullying include hitting, strangling, elbowing, punching, kicking, biting, memiting, scratching, and spitting on the oppressed child to a painful position, as well as damaging and destroying clothing and goods belonging to the oppressed child.

2. Verbal Bullying
    Verbal violence is the most commonly used form of bullying, both by girls and boys. Verbal Bulliying is usually done like mocking or saying harsh words to the victim.

3. Cyber bullying
    This is the latest form of bullying due to the growing development of technology, the internet and social media. The point is that victims constantly get negative messages from bullies either from posts on social media or personal messages on the internet.

4. Sexual bullying
    It is a dangerous act and sexually humiliates a person. This includes sexual name-calling or cat-calling, vulgar gestures, touching, and pornographic material.

    I think bullying itself is an act that is not good because it has a bad impact on people who are bullied both mentally and physically. Bullying can happen anywhere and anytime one of them in the school environment, bullying that we often encounter in the school environment such as physical bullying and verbal bullying. Physical Bullying itself will have an effect in the short term because it will cause wounds or bruises that can be seen immediately. The wound or bruise will usually be covered by the victim because not all victims dare to report the bullying they get in the school environment. If sikorban reports the bullying he received, there are 2 possibilities that will happen. The first is that the perpetrator will feel remorse and apologize after receiving a reprimand or sanction and the second possibility that occurs is that the victim will be increasingly bullied because he is considered a complainant.

    Physical or verbal bullying can have long – term effects on the victim mentally. Victims of bullying often get depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, and panic attacks. In addition, the influence of bullying on the mental health of children and adolescents is a sense of sadness, low self-esteem, loneliness, withdrawal from friends, loss of interest in things they used to like, and can affect sleep patterns and eating patterns.

    The family should pay more attention to the condition of the victim in order to know the changes in the nature of the victim and be more concerned about the victim, because depressive disorders themselves can lead to the worst thing, namely suicide.