Tsakani Primary School raises awareness about bullying
Tsakane community has grown tired of bullying in schools.
Tsakani – Tsakani Primary School took it upon themselves to educate the community about bullying on Friday.
The participants held a peaceful march to demonstrate and plead with perpetrators to change their behaviour.
Luyanda Chili, who is a life skills teacher at the school, said his learners are the ones who motivated him to roll out the campaign.
“I had a conversation with my learners around school drop-outs or those not coping with their studies, and bullying seemed to be a common factor.
“Bullying can have dire effects on the victim. They end up with mental issues or being rebellious.
“I knew I had to step in and do something about this before it gets out of hand. As someone who was also bullied, I can relate to what they are going through,” he said.
He continued to say when a bully goes to high school, their behaviour sometimes deteriorates and victims may end up dropping out because of the pressure.
They invited EMPD, SAPS and representatives from the Gauteng East district office and Soul City.
Luyanda highlighted that the issue of bullying, in most cases, begins at home where a child is abused and when they get to school, they want to feel powerful and then resort to bullying.
The school invited the community so parents are also educated and aware that their actions do affect children and society.
“With this initiative, we want parents to know how bad it can get for their children. We also want perpetrators to realise that these children refuse to be victimised and are aware of their human rights,” said Luyanda.
He touched on some of the reasons why people bully others. He said some are frustrated and don’t know how to communicate those feelings well so they intimidate their peers to try to make them feel less worthy.
They have been bullied before so they want to make others suffer the same and they also want to be popular and be perceived as something that they are not.
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