Chapter 1

THE PROBLEM

Introduction

School is said to be the second home of students, the place where children

learns and mold to become someone they want to be and to achieve their dreams.

But school is also a battlefield where students need to fight in order to survive and

sadly it also becomes the second home of the bullies. A research has shown that

as much as

30% of students have been impacted by bullying (Nansel et al., 2001). The
remaining

70% have most likely observed bullying behavior in their school career (Polanin et

al., 2012). Coloroso (2004) found that 86% of students from the range of 12-15

years old recorded that they have been teased or bullied at school.

Nowadays, bullying developed into many forms of bullying such as cyber

bullying that is more rampant because of the technology and it grows more serious

and poignant to students. And what's alarming is that the breeding ground of this

plague is our school. Our very own second home is also the ground for bullies.

Several studies denoted that bullying makes schools to be deleterious places for

students and it contributes in the belief that some schools are becoming unsafe

(Maliki et al., 2009). These students also have elevated the risk for depression,

anxiety, loneliness, and low self-esteem. These effects impact students throughout

their adolescent years, and continue to their adulthood (Espelage & Swearer,
2004). More importantly, it can have an impact on the student’s physical and

mental health. Students who have been a victim of bullying have a heightened

threat of forming social and emotional demeanor problems and students who are

part of the Bullying process were more probably to have academic issues than

students who have not been part of the bullying process (Glew et al., 2008)

We may not seem to notice events such as bullying but some incidents

must be as clear as crystal, we can't just determine if its already a deed of bullying

or just another forms of it. Bullying occurs in many different forms. The utmost

general form of bullying used by both female and male students is verbal bullying,

which calls for 70% of reported bullying (Coloroso, 2004).

Researchers had already experienced being bullied and also being a

bullies. Researchers as a bully before, didn't know the effects of bullying to one's

individual. In our study we will find out what are the effects of bullying in the

academic performance of the students.