Dagupan FPTA set to stop bullying in schools
THE Dagupan City Federation of Parents Teachers Association (FPTA) is set to promote and create awareness for the Anti-Bullying Act of 2013 in all the 39 public elementary and secondary schools in the city.
According to Imelda Q. Gonzales, FPTA president, the campaign will be launched at the Dagupan City National High School, which has 5,000 students, through posters in every classroom reminding every student “to be a friend to everyone and not to be a bully to those who they perceive to be weak.”
FPTA vice-president Gerry Prades said the organization is happy because Mayor Fernandez shares their goal, to create high awareness towards the Anti-Bullying Act of 2013. He said he, too, was a victim of bullying when he was a student and that his child also suffered the same ordeal.
The group said it will complete the forum series in all the city’s schools by the end of the year. Resource persons who were once victims of bullying in school will be invited to speak of the ills that often lead to depression.
“Depression as we all know is one of the causes of suicides, and the recent victim of which is Hollywood star, Robin Williams,” Prades said.
DepEd recorded four cases of bullying in Region I in 2010 but Prades believes there were far, more victims but their parents opted to keep mum about these for fear of retaliation or persecution due to the lack of support from the school.
Mayor Belen T. Fernandez and the Department of Education said they fully support the endeavor to create higher awareness about the law in all public and private schools.
A lecture on the Anti-Bullying Act of 2013 will be one of the activities in the coming Children’s Congress to be held in Dagupan City sometime in October. (CIO/ Joseph C. Bacani)
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