Schools are required to counteract bullying – Parool.nl

20-03-15 00:39 pm – Source: Reuters

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All schools are required to provide a safe social environment for their students. That means that they are legally responsible for particularly bullying counter. A majority of the House supports a bill to do so by State Sander Dekker of Education, revealed last night.

Schools may choose the methods used to prevent bullying themselves, but they must set up a contact and results keep up. The Inspectorate supervises and can intervene. The law in line with a plan of action that the education conceived in 2013 in response to serious events in 2012.

“There was a great sense of urgency, doing nothing was not an option,” Dekker said. Yet bullying according to Dekker often not properly addressed. Schools should really go into practice the social security. “They are free to determine how they do it. The result counts. “

Unacceptable
Although bullying of all times and all ages, Dekker mentioned the problem too large and unacceptable. “People drag the consequences of bullying sometimes long lasting life.” He pointed out that in every classroom every day on average three children are teased out. Converted goes nationwide to 400,000 children.

The law is not limited to the school and the school, but also includes social media. “Actually involves everything reasonably within the scope of the school. Not only in the classroom is being bullied, but the problem is often drawn in the class’

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