Everyday we hear of some sad news.
They are natural disaster,traffic accident,fire,murder and so on.
I today write about a social problem called "IJIME" in Japan.
Many students commit suicide because their classmates huff them to pieces.
I wonder if this kind of problem happens in other countries.
Classmates ignore,bash away,and even extort money.We call this "IJIME" in Japanese.
They can't tell to teachers or parents,and agonize alone.
Those who can tell to teachers but can't get the help from them,blame teachers,board of education.
Government said there are no suiside because of IJIME from 1999 to 2005,while 935 students finished their lives by themselves.
After this announcement,many people are disagreeably surprised and angry about the difference between government's perception and the reality.
Finally government decide to investigate the situation again.
This is one of the awarded poster 8 years girl depicted,which said "STOP IJIME".
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
IJIME Problem
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7 comments:
guess thats a general problem, oppression of the stronger to the weaker. question is "is there a way to stop it?". May be to some extent, but not totally.
I heard about the suicides in Japan and I'm really sorry about these children. There has never been such a case in Bulgaria, but this problem is quite disturbing, because school violence is not unknown to us.
I’m from Argentina.
I’ve just read a newspaper article saying that students have started to make videos while the bully their classmates and they upload them on the internet; the suffering becomes non-stop.
That sounds really sad. Unbelievable though it may be this seems to be a real problem for students from various countries.
I am surprised to have read Gabriela's comments. I am from Argentina as well and I did read /listen about the uploading of the scenes to the world wide net but the cases were from the UK. Is it already happening in Argentina? Sadly enough I wouldn't be surprised if that were so.
While surfing I found a very interesting article on Bullying (from a BBC page for children/teens):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/specials/bullying/default.stm
worth reading everything on that link!
A second post just to share a link
http://www.kidscape.org.uk/
It is definitely a serious problem and the link is what a special organization in the UK does to
fight anobvious social problem.
One report atates that 16% of US students suffer from bullying. There is concern among the teachers, and they hold special programs about it, but it is an ongoing problem here.
I read the article in Clarin.(Spanish)
http://www.clarin.com/diario/2006/11/15/um/m-01309914.htm
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