Lycée Privé La BURKINA FASO

Dignité Unité – Progrès - Justice

Level: Tle A4
GROUP 9

Members of the group

FOFANA Mamadou

GANOU Mélissa Samata

GNOUMOU Bernice

GNOUMOU Parfait

GUIRA Théophile
Prof: Mr KABORE
 OUTLINE

Introduction

I. DEFINITION AND TYPES OF VIOLENCE

1. Definition

2. Types of violence

II. CAUSES OF VIOLENCE

1. Education causes

2. The influence of (social) media

III. CONSEQUENCE OF VIOLENCE

1. Impacts on pupils’ studies

2. Growth of incivility

3. Growth of insecurity

IV. SOLUTION TO FIGHT AGAINST AT VIOLENCE AT SCHOOL

1. Parent's role

2. Sensitization

3. Radical punishment

Conclusion
 Introduction

Among the phenomena that threaten our society nowadays, violence at

school has been stated as a core factor of this threat. In the following lines we are
going to point out how exactly it is caused and show its drawbacks as well.

I. DEFINITION AND TYPES OF VIOLENCE.

1. Definition

In this contest violence can be defined as any attack between students or

by students on other people. Furthermore, it can be an abuse by teachers on
teachers.

2. Type of violence at school.

School violence include physical violence which referred to as fights

between students with or without weapons. It is also widely spoken about
violence such as sexual abuses or verbal abuses. Those kinds of violence are
widespread in many countries and affect significant number of pupils whether
they are grown-ups or children. Roughly speaking, an estimated number of 246
million girls and boys are subject to school related violence every year in the
world.

II. CAUSES OF VIOLENCE.

1. Educational causes

Part of blame on school violence can be rejected on the education pupils /

students receive either at school or at home. The behavior of school children have
become so unbearable that teachers fail to teach them properly as they should.
Parents also fail to admit that the behaviors that children or pupils have taken
their origins from their homes. As a result, children are becoming more and more
rude and violent not only towards their peers but also towards their teachers. The
finally leads to a growing violence.

2. The influence of media

Nowadays, media are replacing more and more parents and other
caretakers who should guide children and teach them moral values and correct
their bad Manners.

Children nowadays are taught by TVs rather than their parents and as a
result they think that everything on TV is acceptable and does not do any harm.
Undoubtedly, this leads to a (rampant) growing juvenile delinquency. Children
nowadays are spoilt by TVs and social media such as Facebook, WhatsApp and
others.

3. Social causes

We are living in a society where no one cares about what a child does
whether it is good or bad. Children grow without being taught morality and this
will surely impact their life anywhere including their life at school.

III. CONSEQUENCE OF VIOLENCE AT SCHOOL.

1. Growth of incivility

At this level, many factors show how speedily incivility is growing in schools.
First, school children no longer have respect for school regulations nor do they
have respect for their teachers. There are many factors that can explain this
incivility for example the unreasonable strikes and illegal claims. There are more
than 107 cases of unreasonable strikes registered in Burkina Faso and this led to
destructions of school material and other institutions.
 2. Impacts on pupils’ studies.

Violence at school may surely have a negative impact on pupils' studies. In

fact, when violence is acute in schools, this opens the door to failure in
succeeding. This explains the reason why the number of dropouts is increasing
day after day. Many students / pupils dropout of school, not because they are not
intelligent but rather because their school life is unsuitable for them to succeed.

3. Growth of insecurity

The level at which violence is increasing is faithful and this is presumed to

be caused partly by school failure. The are many consequences triggered by this
phenomenon including that of insecurity which is a huge preoccupation nowadays.
Violent students are likelier to fail than ever and for sure this failure will lead
them to drop out of school. Those school dropouts (turn into) because a changer
for their parents in particular and the whole society in general.

Most of drug addicts and gangs are assumed to be school dropouts. That's
to say that the violence that made them fail at school will later on impact their
way of living for ever no matter where they are.

IV. SOLUTION TO FIGHT AGAINST VIOLENCE AT SCHOOL.

1. Parent's role

To solve the problem of school violence, parental involvement is of a great

importance. Parents have to understand that the education of child starts at
home and the education a child receive at home is more important than ever. In
addition, parents spend more time with children than teachers do and as such
they have to show good examples for children to imitate.

When parents understand educating is not only about sending to school

but also an involvement in paying attention to the manners of children, it will be
easier to address this issue.
 2. Sensitization

In many problems that the society faces, sensitization has played a core
role. In this situation too, sensitization is unavoidable. Pupils have to be sensitized
about the negative impacts of violence at school and they have to be explained
how dangerous it is for not only their school life but also their life in general. This
might have an effect in reducing the growth of this phenomenon.

3. Radical punishment

Generally, when children are left unpunished regarding a given act, it

encourages them to go further. Punishment is sometimes a last resort in some
cases particularly the issue of violence at school. Sensitization is surely not a bad
means but it is not sufficient enough to force children to obey school regulations.

Conclusion

In a nutshell, school violence is proven to be caused by several factors and

it leads to side-effects that endanger not only the individual life but also the social
because a dangerous person does not live alone but he lives with others and as
such his evilness will impact his surroundings. The degree of the danger that
school violence provokes is so acute that it is worth being worried about. Some
possible solutions were therefore suggested and punishment is of a huge
importance. As a saying goes "spare the rod and spoil the child"