Schools of SKOA, the Catholic school board, have started training with 131 Aruba on bullying prevention, 24ora reported on October 27.
Bullying has always been among the top five reasons children and young people contact 131 Aruba, according to the report. 131 Aruba began its school bullying-prevention project in Aruba in 2012, with a pilot in eight primary schools.
What the earlier measurement showed
A Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) measurement at the time of the pilot found that 56.5% of children in those schools said they experienced bullying. The project has continued since 2012, and SKOA schools are now starting the training.
As 24ora’s report explains, bullying affects not only its victims: perpetrators also need help, and bullying affects the learning climate of the whole classroom. The SKOA training, reported on October 27, brings the long-running 131 Aruba prevention work into the Catholic board’s schools.
The training builds on more than a decade of work. 131 Aruba is the service children and young people contact for help, and bullying has consistently been among the top five reasons they do so. Its school prevention project began in 2012 with a pilot in eight primary schools — the context for the CBS measurement cited above — and the SKOA training reported on October 27 extends that prevention work into the Catholic school board’s schools. As the report sets out, the approach treats bullying as a problem for the whole classroom: victims need support, perpetrators also need help, and the learning climate of the class is affected either way.
Sources: 24ora
