（ピンクシャツの日）What’s Pink Shirt Day?

2022年3月27日

What’s Pink Shirt Day?

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Hello, everyone. How are you today? It's Teacher Asuka.

Today, I’m going to talk about ‘Anti-Bullying movement and beyond’. Because of bullying or harassment, a lot of students in Japan have been causing committing suicide and No-schoolers. That is one of the severe problems in Japanese schools. We can hear such various news relating bullying or harassment that have happened everywhere rather than schools in recent years.

According to Stella O'Malley, the author of a ground-breaking new book, ’Bully-Proof Kids’, bullying is a repeated behavior, and the key is that it’s a sustained pattern of aggression by a person with more power, targeting someone with less power. The author says that bullying is always about more than what's going on with two people: the bully and the target. To understand bullying, you must see the whole picture.

In 2007, a boy of 9th-grader wearing a pink shirt was bullied in Canada. Since then, Anti-bullying movement has been occurred and they think bullying is not just private problems but social problems.

Moreover, not only Canada but also another 25 countries have joined the movement and UN has officially admitted May 4 as Anti-bullying day, known as Pink Shirt day in 2012.

There is an organization,' PREVnet (www.prevnet.ca)', which has been made by the university professors in Canada, because bullying itself has bad influences for society. They think that people should take responsibility for good relationships as bullying is a relationship problem that requires relationship solution.

Through "PREVNet’s" work above, the focusing on healthy relationships is now forefront of prevention science, youth development, and public health policy in Canada and beyond.

There is also relating website like Stop a bully : ( http://www.stopabully.ca), which you can use and report various issues to the school principals and school counselors.

I've learnt and deeply impressed through overall Anti-bullying movement in the world, that telling the importance of taking responsibility for relationships to all the people not only the targets and bystanders, can lead to develop healthy relationships as well as grow up youth's humanity.

Thank you for joining me as usual. See you next time!

Teacher Asuka

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