Position Paper No. 3

Siti Hajar bt Che Nik
0724714

Nowadays, as we can see lots of violence has happen in our school. Overall there are some cases in each school that is easy and difficult to be handle. Violence means that great roughness and force especially it will cause destruction, injury or damage. As we can see, there are some students that tend to practice this violence because usually they are influence by their outside friends that have taught them to act in harsh ways or maybe they are influence by the media for examples cases of violence that they watch through the television and they want to try it out without thinking of it bad effects.

As counselors, it is not easy for us to handle this kind of cases. We as counselors cannot do anything about it when it comes to on how to handle their behavior in order to stop them from doing it again. There are some of them that are so stubborn and do not want to listen to what the counselor is going to say and some of them ignore on what the counselor have said. It is all depend on them whether they want to change or not. The awareness should come within them. No one can help them if they do not want to change into a good attitude.

When this kind of violence happen in our school at least we will be aware that we must be careful on handling those students and get close to them to know the causes of their problems. We cannot just ignore by not observe their attitudes from time to time. I think that in this violence cases, we are able to prevent it if we solve it at the beginning for example, a boy that kicks one of his friend legs. We try to solve the problem by call and ask that boy on what had happened and find the main causes on why that situation happens. We try to solve it in a smooth way and make that boy stop behave like that.

Violence that happen in the school will also bring bad effects to the school for example, a boy that joins a gangster group outside of the school and implements that bad behavior inside the school which will influence other students to behave like him. This will soon create many groups and will become a big problem to the school. As counselors we should be aware about this. Other than that, there are also a few cases whereby a boy that just move from other school bring his old custom from the previous school which he act in a different way than the other students and he is being isolate from the others and they do not like him at all, then they bullying him and this bring problems to the school. This case always happen in the school.

As conclusion, we can see that there is some violence that is a result of differences outside school. Sometimes society tend to blame the school counselors if there are anything bad that happen in the school without investigate first. They do not realize that it is better to help rather than to blame others.