Ethos Of Bullying In Schools

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Rigby (2007), an Australian author and council for educational research, “Bullying in Schools and What to do About it,” in chapter 5, “The School Ethos” section called, “Teachers’ contribution to the school ethos,” The author analyzed the data provided by two studies done in Australia that focused on teachers thoughts about bullying ( Rigby & Slee, 1991, and Keogh and Rigby, 1995, cited in Rigby, 2007). And according to the author’s conclusion, most of the teachers, which participated in the study, believed that bullying cannot be avoid. Moreover, he found that over 90 percent of the teachers believed that something could be done about it. Furthermore, he added, Rigby (2007) that when the “teachers were asked about their personal capacity to