Answer the following questions.

(a) Show how the statistics of bullying vary between Bangladesh and global context.

(b) What are the findings of the report released by UNICEF?

(c) "Every day, students face multiple dangers." - What are the dangers and what are the impacts of the dangers?

(d) From your reading the text, give two examples on the victim and the victimizer.

(e) How can we prevent bullying? Write in your own language.

(a) According to UNICEF, in Bangladesh 35 percent students aged between 13 and 15 are the victims of bullying one or more days in a month. Their involvement in physical fighting happens at least once in a year. On the other hand, 51 percent of students of the same age become the victims of bullying globally. Their number is huge and it is around 150 million. The nature of bullying includes violence, physical fighting, etc.

(b) The report finds the following things :

(i) Students aged between 13 and 15 are being bullied one or more days in a month.

(ii) Students involve themselves in physical fighting at least once in a year.

(iii) They experience violence and physical fighting in and around school.

Finally, the report's findings include that students cannot get rid of violence such as either they are attacked by their peers or punished by their teachers in classrooms.

(c) Every day, students encounter dangers like fighting, pressure to join' gangs, bullying, violent discipline, sexual harassment and armed violence. These dangers have both long-term and short-term impacts. In the short-term, it impacts their learning while in the long-term it can lead to depression, anxiety and even suicide. Violence damages the creativity of the children. Therefore, no learning occurs where violence exists.

(d) Slightly more than one out of three students aged between 13 and 15 are the victims of bullying while one in three has been involved in physical fighting. On the other hand, 17 million young adolescents in 39 industrialized countries proved themselves to be the victimizers at school. Victimizers make the girls suffer from psychological bullying.

(e) We can prevent bullying by adopting some effective ways. Firstly, teachers have to be properly trained about the behaviours of adolescent boys and girls so that they can control these students. Students have to be morally educated so that they can reform their attitude and behaviour. Moreover, there should be punishable and reformatory systems for the bullying adolescents so that they can be reformed.