School reality pt. 2 - the backwash

Yesterday I was wondering about the bad problems in our schools in general. Now I'll continue with the consequences.

It is known that school in general has become more competitive these days. Competition is normal for people but when it becomes a rude game, everything's going to scatter. The big schools are the worst but the little ones can be as rude in their own way.

First, the most important people for one in school are their classmates. A class is a smaller society inside a society called school. Well, the atmosphere among the class can be wonderful but if something doesn't go as it should, the atmosphere will become smog.

Most people think about their roles, so do I. Once I heard from one student that they violate others verbally just because they've used to it and they don't want to break their current status which (usually in those situtations) is an amuser or something like that. People want to be valued, respected and wanted - that can make them do almost anything.

Well, if you've heard about the Pareto principle (the 80-20 rule), you'll know that roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes - which works conversely too when 80% of the effects touches 20% of the mass. Most of the people are peaceable and tranquil and don't want to pick a fight. But when there are strong persons, anything can happen. Simply: a class consists of 20 % of potential bullies, 20 % of potential victims and 60 % of bystanders.

Every year the pain leads too many young people to make a suicide and plus that, much more tragic things can happen too: school massacres have become terribly real in here. The public secret is that the school shooters did what they did just because their psychic well-being and self-esteem were destroyed by the bullies.

Bystanders have a notable role in a class. They can stop the injustice or they can let it go on. I think we should load more on attitudes and awareness so we could make people see what's really going on. That would make a better change.