School bullying — Swiss counterintuitive method successfully helping schools resolve the scourge

When Ben was 11, his parents noticed his grades had dropped. He stopped talking about school. On Sunday evenings, he often complained about stomach aches and begged his mom to keep him home the next day.“These are all typical signs there might be a bullying problem,” says Bettina Dénervaud, co-founder of the Swiss initiative Hilfe bei Mobbing, which translates as “Help with Bullying”.

With Ben, Dénervaud began by encouraging a personal talk between him and the teacher he trusts most. The goal is for Ben to talk openly and confidentially about everything that happened, his emotions and his thoughts about the bullies. In Ben’s case, this was the first time anybody learned that the bullying had been much worse than his parents and teachers assumed. It included other children tripping and shoving Ben, name-calling, and excluding him from games. He was also voted “ugliest” in his class in an online “poll”. The bullying had started much earlier and gone on for much longer than the parents feared. The teacher also asked what would help him feel safe.

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