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School bullying in the Philippines

A survey that was recently conducted showed that one in two Filipino children have
witnessed violence or abuse in their schools. It was also showed that students in the schools
of Philippine witness the different types of bullying including name calling, teasing, exclusion,
or forcing the victim to do things.

The Department of Education in the Philippines reported more than 1,700 cases of child
abuse or bullying in schools for the years of 2013 and 2014. However this number is
decreasing. The decrease may be due to an order in 2012 known as DepEd Child Protection
Policy. This states the policy and guidelines for the child protection in schools against abuse,
exploitation, violence, discrimination, and bullying.

The 2012 DepEd Child Protection Policy not only takes care of the violence targeted towards
the children but it also looks at the family. Information is then referred to school
administrators and teachers.

The House of Representatives in Philippine has approved a bill that requires all elementary
and the secondary schools to adopt policies that prevent bullying or any other kind of
violence in the schools. This bill requires the schools to include the anti-bullying policies. The
schools then submit to the Department of Education after six months upon the effect of the
law, and any incidents should be reported immediately, and in case of absence of the
policies in any school, there is a sanction that falls on the school’s administrators.

Cyber bullying in the Philippines

The affordability and availability of personal computing has allowed for an increase in cyber
bullying across the world, and the Philippines is no different. Cyber bullying is the use of
digital media to be unkind to others. This can include sending messages through social
media, e-mail or text message, in order to make the victim feel uncomfortable, powerless or
threatened.

Cyber bullying can also include hacking others’ social media accounts in order to steal
secrets or assume their identity for the same purposes. With children and teens more
connected than ever to their mobile devices and computers, this can make them vulnerable
to bullying all day – at home, at school and anywhere else.

Cyber Bullying in The Philippines has become a major issue. The Philippines is considered
the 4th country to search for cyber bullying over the Internet.

As well as specific anti-bullying legislation, The Philippines also have specific laws governing
cybercrime. One piece of legislation that addresses this area is the Cybercrime Prevention
Act of 2012. This controls acts such as:
 Cybersex, or the wilful engagement, maintenance, control, or operation, directly or
indirectly, of any lascivious exhibition of sexual organs or sexual activity, with the aid of a
computer system, for favour or consideration.

 Child pornography, as defined in the Anti-child pornography Act of 2009.

 Illegal access, or access to some part or the whole computer system without having
the right to.

 Identity theft.

 Password theft.

 Computer-related forgery

 Cybersquatting, or the acquisition of the domain name over the internet, in bad faith,
to profit, mislead, destroy a reputation, and depriving others of registering the same subject
to certain subjects.
This controversial piece of legislation was not welcomed by everyone. According to some
journalists, lawyers, bloggers and politicians, the law gives too much room for interpretation
which gives the government great control over the life on the internet and social media .
Furthermore, the law does not only punish the person who was responsible for the act, but also
will affect the people who accepted and agreed on it like sharing the content by tweeting, sharing
updates, videos, and photos. The penalty can go up to 12 years in prison and the maximum fine
of one million Philippine pesos ($20898) for each incident.

School bullying in the Philippines

A survey that was recently conducted showed that one in two Filipino children have
witnessed violence or abuse in their schools. It was also showed that students in the schools
of Philippine witness the different types of bullying including name calling, teasing, exclusion,
or forcing the victim to do things.

The Department of Education in the Philippines reported more than 1,700 cases of child
abuse or bullying in schools for the years of 2013 and 2014. However this number is
decreasing. The decrease may be due to an order in 2012 known as DepEd Child Protection
Policy. This states the policy and guidelines for the child protection in schools against abuse,
exploitation, violence, discrimination, and bullying.

The 2012 DepEd Child Protection Policy not only takes care of the violence targeted towards
the children but it also looks at the family. Information is then referred to school
administrators and teachers.
The House of Representatives in Philippine has approved a bill that requires all elementary
and the secondary schools to adopt policies that prevent bullying or any other kind of
violence in the schools. This bill requires the schools to include the anti-bullying policies. The
schools then submit to the Department of Education after six months upon the effect of the
law, and any incidents should be reported immediately, and in case of absence of the
policies in any school, there is a sanction that falls on the school’s administrators.

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