THE 10 MOST COMMON TYPES OF SCHOOL VIOLENCE - CULTURE VOCABULARY - 2024

The most common types of school violence are from teacher to student, student to teacher, student to student (bullying), and teacher to teacher. This type of violence is made up of aggressive acts perpetrated by and towards members of the educational community (teachers, students, relatives of the students or teachers, cleaning staff, among others).

Consequently, school violence originates and develops in the school or in neighboring places that are linked to it, affecting the teaching-learning process and the physical and mental stability of the victim.

Violence can manifest itself in different ways, it can be verbal, physical or psychological. What varies is the “who executes it” (aggressor) and “who receives it” (victim).

It can be said that school violence can be exercised by a teacher towards the student, by a student towards a teacher, by the student towards another student, by a teacher against another teacher, among others.

It is a fact that no member of the educational community is exempt from being a victim of school violence.

Consequently, it is necessary to make the population aware of the consequences of school violence, highlighting that it is one of the causes of school dropouts, suicide and homicide within or near the educational unit.

Top 10 types of school violence

1. Violence from the teacher to the student

It refers to those violent acts carried out by teachers towards students using the authority conferred on them by their position.

This type of violence was very common during almost the entire 20th century, when physical punishment was used when a student misbehaved or did not do what was established by the teacher.

For example, when teachers beat students who disobeyed the rules with a rule or when they called them "donkeys", "brutes", "good for nothing".

Also when they tied the left hand to the left-handers so that they could write with the right hand, since they considered that this was the correct way to write.

Consequently, the necessary measures were taken in order to eradicate this type of violence for which laws were created in order to ensure the physical and psychological integrity of the students.

However, at present this type of violence is still evident only to a lesser extent.

2. Violence from the student to the teacher

This type of violence constitutes acts of physical, psychological and verbal violence, for example: making fun of the teacher's clothes, saying insults and rudeness during and outside the class, death threats, among others.

In many cases, teachers do not realize that they are victims of school violence, since they consider that insults and teasing (most common acts of violence) do not represent any risk, ignoring the psychological damage that they generate.

3. Exclusion

This type of violence occurs when a group of students decide to “put aside” a student. They act as if this person does not exist, causing him to isolate himself.

Exclusion is a type of psychological violence and can become one of the most common causes of suicide.

4. Intimidation

Intimidation is the act of instilling fear through threats and using it to get victims to do what the perpetrator wishes.

5. Sexual violence

This type of violence happens when there is the presence of inappropriate sexual behaviors within the educational community.

Sexual violence constitutes all sexual advances, showing the genitals and physical contact without consent (rubbing the skin with the hand or any other part of the body and even forcing the sexual act).

This type of violence can be carried out by a teacher to a student or vice versa, by a student to another student, by a teacher to another teacher, among others.

6. Coercion

This type of violence refers to violence exerted on someone in order to force them to do something that that person does not want.

Coercion, like intimidation, uses threats to achieve what it wants. However, she also uses physical violence.

7. Bullying (bullying or harassment)

Bullying or harassment is an act of violence carried out repeatedly. It refers to all types of abuse (teasing, physical abuse, among others) carried out against a student, teacher or other member of the educational community.

Through bullying, the perpetrator can exercise physical and psychological control over his victim to the point of manipulating her at will.

Bullying is one of the most common types of school violence and one of the causes of suicide in adolescents.

8. Vandalism

School vandalism refers to those acts of destruction against the facilities and property of educational institutions. Therefore, it is considered an act of disrespect.

In this sense, it can be said that the graffiti made without permission from the highest authority of the Educational Unit represents an act of vandalism.

Vandalism results in the suspension of classes (when it damages the structure of the institutions or when furniture is stolen)

9. Violence among teaching staff

This type of violence is not very common in the educational community. It refers to all those teasing and mistreatment made by one teacher towards another.

Violence between teachers also includes harassment, sexual violence, coercion, intimidation, among others.

10. Violence of parents and representatives to teachers

It consists of all those threats and physical damages made by parents and representatives to teachers.

Other acts of violence at school

- Use or sell drugs within the facilities of the Educational Institution.

- Carrying knives and firearms within the facilities of the Educational Institution.

- Planting bombs and carrying out shootings within the facilities of the Educational Institution.

- Kidnap members of the educational community.

- Carry out robberies and thefts within the educational institution or in the surrounding areas.

- Use or sell alcoholic beverages at the institution.

- Inciting the consumption of narcotic drugs.

- Theft of answers to the exams that will be done in class.

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