# Bullying Author: Paynalton Canonical source: Language: en Original publication: Recently in Mexico, there has been a lot of talk about the problem of bullying.

Since it is a new concept in our country, I will dedicate a few lines to explain it briefly:

In a school environment, suddenly there appears a student with special characteristics, such as great leadership ability, intelligence, and a certain physical strength or courage to face problems. These characteristics make this person a respected figure within their environment.

However, this person may begin a pattern of abuse against the weaker student when encountering their counterpart (a student with low self-esteem, undervalued by others, and almost always physically weaker). This abuse may consist of just a series of verbal aggressions or social manipulations that increase social rejection toward the weaker student, until it escalates to physical abuse in the form of torture, violence, and even murder.

But aside from having a strong person who abuses a weak one, we also have a third factor, which are the spectators. These abuses always have the same characteristic: they occur in a place where there are spectators, who never attempt to stop the abuse. These spectators refuse to help the weak one, either out of respect or fear of the abuser, which encourages the abuse to continue, raising the abuser's self-esteem in response to the rejection suffered by the victim.

It is unnecessary to explain why this phenomenon is harmful, especially when teachers themselves become spectators. These patterns of behavior are beginning to occur in schools throughout the Mexican Republic and have raised an alert among educators.

This has made me think about the cause for which this phenomenon is expanding, and I believe that in order to explain it, we must refer to human nature itself.

Humans tend to group into communities, just like other animal species. When communities grow, the tendency is to create social structures with task division. In this way, in almost any human society, we will have leaders, watchers, scholars, and other pieces that we can identify and that relate to each other in different ways.

This tendency to create societies begins in childhood, where children start forming emotional bonds outside the family, called friendships, camaraderie... Initially, social structures are simple, but as individuals develop their skills, these social structures grow in complexity.

Now, what is the problem for me that is causing the bullying phenomenon? Precisely the fact that our educational system is not considering this social development as part of the integral development of the human being.

When we have the kids at school, we usually avoid the creation of internal power structures among the students. We desire to have power established with the teachers, undermining any form of authority that may exist among the students so that we have a group that is easily controlled.

This causes damage to the natural social structure of the group, so those who tend toward leadership are affected by the lack of authority they possess, leading to emotional instability in various ways. That is why the abuser seeks recognition from their society by challenging established authorities first, breaking various rules and thus acquiring a certain power that turns out to be too unstable. If an initial abuse occurs, then the leader discovers a way to instill fear and respect among their followers. Through these behaviors, the leader maintains their leadership and reestablishes a certain social order.

This is the problem, in my opinion, the not allowing the freedom of these social structures, so I would propose the following two solutions:

1.- Support social structures, training teachers to be able to identify power balances within their groups and granting certain privileges to the leaders so that they can establish their dominance without resorting to abuse. If the teacher maintains a good relationship with the leaders of their group, they can keep the group stable and under control, since the teacher would maintain power over these leaders, creating a hierarchical structure that all the students would respect.

2.- Create smaller groups. In recent years, due to the growing demand for education, the number of individuals in school groups has been increasing, which leads us to have more complex societies among the students. If we increase the number of groups while reducing the number of individuals in each, the social structures would be much simpler, which would reduce the possibility of the bullying phenomenon occurring, since the leader would be in a much more manageable group and would not need to resort to abuse to maintain the respect of their group.

These two possibilities apply to groups where the phenomenon is not yet present, and they are preventive measures that would prevent the emergence of this phenomenon.

In the case of groups where the phenomenon is already present, it is necessary to take some rather drastic measures:

Psychological attention will be required for both the abuser and the victim to repair the negative effects this phenomenon has had on both individuals.

It is necessary to completely break down the social structure in which the phenomenon appeared, dividing groups and remixing individuals in order to dismantle the social structure created, taking care that the phenomenon does not reappear when new social bonds are formed.

This division will create cases of depression, stress, and other effects on individuals, therefore we must be prepared to face this situation.

Well, this is the idea, I hope someone takes it into account and shouts with me:
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