position paper no 3

“VIOLENCE IN THE SCHOOL IS A RESULT OF DIFFERENCES OUTSIDE SCHOOL. WE AS A COUNSELOR CAN’T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT”.DISCUSS.

NUR IZZAH ZAHARI
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Violence seems to be something common nowadays whether it happens in rural on urban area. In school especially, this problem become one of the social ills happen among students. Violence refers to a violation of a person’s physical and civic rights as well as his or her psychological or personal integrity. Violence can take several forms such as verbal, psychological and sexual forms of assault, gang violence, bullying and gender harassment. Related to the topic given, counselor can’t do anything about it because violence actually happens in school due to what students bring from community they live. It is not originated from school itself but outside. Every student comes from different background and environment which they had been raised up. When the relationship of students, parents and society do not good, it will affect their performance in school because the basic core for their growth is not fulfilled. For example, if the student is raised up in the violence manner and had been exposed to this situation for a long time, can’t be denied that the student will apply what they faces in school because in their mind violence is only a normal thing. As we know, many schools in Malaysia consists of many races in once school. The possibility to create dissatisfaction among the races is high because of the different culture and lifestyle. We can see lots of cases happen because of difference races. That why counselor will finds it is hard to solve this problem.
Actually beside that, counselor can’t do anything to stop violence because people did not trust counselor himself. Many of the reported cases involved unethical counselor who break the confidentiality of the client and did not show the good example to others. Because of some defect counselor in this world, the good counselor who doing their job better will affect. When students and society did not trust counselors, counselors can’t do anything about that violence. Other than that, people think that violence cases that happen in school should not in the counselor job because it is enough only to being handle by discipline teacher. The good solution is to punish them. That why it’s nothing to do with the counselor because counselor’s job is not to punish students.

I am quite disagree with the statement because in my opinion, counselor actually is one of the agents that will help to curb this problem from being worst. Although counselors will not help this problem to become zero, but at least they can prevent this violence from happen. First of all, counselor should shows a good example and not be bias. One of the jobs of counselor is to get a support from schools, students, teachers and community members to work together to ensure that everyone feels safe, respected and valued in those schools. Counselor can introduce a suitable program for those who are involved in this violence such as rehabilitation program like strengthen student’s mind and build their ability to make better decisions. Such programs wills help students to develop empathy, gain impulse control, and equipping them with the tools they need to live in meaningful lives and without violence.

As we know the solution to school violence is different from school to school. The level of violence and the means of controlling it depend on demographics, community outside the school, the quality of the counselors and teachers, the school budget, the school discipline policy and how well it is enforced, and many more factors. It is important for school counselor to collect all the data needed in order to curb this problem from becoming worst and make a research. In easy word, it must have collaboration between parties. Many schools had introduced varieties of extracurricular programs like athletics, art, music, and other programs to help students engage in their school and the community. Counselor can changes the environment of school to help prevent violence. Normally most school violence happens in larger school which consists of many races in one school. It is very hard to make all of them to get along together without make any chaos in school. The best way to keep students safe from violence is to prevent the violence from occurring. Actually, violence prevention classes or workshops for students, any special programs on preventing violence and gang activity for high-risk students have been introduced by the school counselor because it is under the job of counselor. Counselor knows what others don’t know.

In a conclusion, communities is important agent to cooperate with school counselor because if the students have a good relationship with the community, caring and giving support , school violence may be prevented before it starts. Community can also help children who are already in need or troubled by making sure they can get appropriate help such as counseling in school. Counselor must have an intention to prevent this problem although it can’t be fully diminished hundred percent and do something about it because counselor holds the responsibility of protecting students from any acts of violence. So, I did not agree if we say that counselor can’t do anything about it.