School Bullying in Vietnam
1.Introduction
One of the most serious educational issues which are concerned by public in recent years is school violence. Bullying is a typical type of that.It is not a new problem in the world today, especially in Vietnam this matter has long become a national serious issue, a burden for all the teachers and administrators across the country. According to the Dantri Internet, by the year 2011, phenomenon “school violence” became a hot issue in society (Nguyen 2011). In fact, there are so many recurring causes leading to eruption of school bullying. As a consequence, It brings many nagetive effects to chidren, not only child who is bullied but also bullies. However, it is not easy for school and society to evaluate and find out effective solutions (Nguyen 2011). Therefore, this paper, with the purpose of helping understand clearly about the risk of this problem, discuss the questions of how school violence situation in recent years is, why so many of them engage in bullying ,what effects of school bullying on student are and what steps authorities have taken so far to solve this grave matter.
2.Discussion of findings
2.1.The situation of school violence in Vietnam in recent years
It seems that school violence in Vietnam has being broken out in the 2010s. As stated in Vietnamnet (2011) these days it’s common to hear about violence in school and find videos on the internet of students fighting each other. If one types “school violence” in Vietnamese on Google, the search tool comes up with more than 18,100,000 links connecting to stories about Viet Nam’s school violence. If one types “female student fights” on YouTube, numerous hits link to violent clips of female students fighting. Early in the 2011-12 academic year, the Ministry of Education and Training released a report saying that more than 1,620 cases of fights between students had been discovered nationwide in the 2010-11 school year (Vietnamnet 2011). Also, the situation “school
One of the most serious educational issues which are concerned by public in recent years is school violence. Bullying is a typical type of that.It is not a new problem in the world today, especially in Vietnam this matter has long become a national serious issue, a burden for all the teachers and administrators across the country. According to the Dantri Internet, by the year 2011, phenomenon “school violence” became a hot issue in society (Nguyen 2011). In fact, there are so many recurring causes leading to eruption of school bullying. As a consequence, It brings many nagetive effects to chidren, not only child who is bullied but also bullies. However, it is not easy for school and society to evaluate and find out effective solutions (Nguyen 2011). Therefore, this paper, with the purpose of helping understand clearly about the risk of this problem, discuss the questions of how school violence situation in recent years is, why so many of them engage in bullying ,what effects of school bullying on student are and what steps authorities have taken so far to solve this grave matter.
2.Discussion of findings
2.1.The situation of school violence in Vietnam in recent years
It seems that school violence in Vietnam has being broken out in the 2010s. As stated in Vietnamnet (2011) these days it’s common to hear about violence in school and find videos on the internet of students fighting each other. If one types “school violence” in Vietnamese on Google, the search tool comes up with more than 18,100,000 links connecting to stories about Viet Nam’s school violence. If one types “female student fights” on YouTube, numerous hits link to violent clips of female students fighting. Early in the 2011-12 academic year, the Ministry of Education and Training released a report saying that more than 1,620 cases of fights between students had been discovered nationwide in the 2010-11 school year (Vietnamnet 2011). Also, the situation “school
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