A student's heavy assault on her classmate was recorded on video

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) warned last year that 32% of students in Colombia had reported being victims of bullying, a figure that shows the serious problems of violence and bullying that students face in the country and that they require comprehensive care for their containment.

On Sunday, March 27, a video was disseminated through social networks showing, in one of these cases, the strong aggression by a student of the Divina Providencia school in Manizales, capital of the department of Caldas, against one of the classmates, who, amidst insults, she outrages in front of her classmates, for being supposedly the most widely applied.

The video recorded the moment when one of the students, who is without the uniform of the educational institution, takes what would be one of the classmates by the hair, who asks: “What is wrong with you, what am I telling you?” , implying that she does not understand the reason for the attack, to which her attacker responds: “You are a gossip and a sapa”, throwing her on the ground with a jerk at her head.

In the violent scene, which lasts a few seconds and takes place in the presence of a group of female students, teachers or other authorities of the educational institutions dealing with the aggression are not identified, which according to the portal that shared this case, is recurrent in this school and which has been reported by the students, which could lead to effects on the mental health and well-being of female students.

“For an event to be considered as violence or bullying and not conflicts or discussions between minors, it must be a systematic action of aggressive behavior that is repeated over time, intentionally and where there is an imbalance of power between perpetrators and victims,” he told National Radio. from Colombia, the psychologist, Norma Constanza Sánchez.

In recent days, the Ministry of Education of Medellín reported that so far this year at least 500 cases of school violence have been recorded, including bullying, sexual harassment, cyberbullying, among others.

In order to address this problem that affects students in the 229 official educational institutions, 337 private and 49 covered by the city, the Mayor's Office of Medellín launched the campaign 'Don't touch you'.

With this initiative, the administration intends to provide support to students who are victims of violence in the city's educational institutions. But it also aims to provide sufficient confidence for children and young people to report their aggressors.

“Through the strategy 'Don't touch you', we seek to hear the voice of the 405,241 students currently registered by the municipality's education system. Schools must be safe environments and in the event of suspected cases of school violence, it is necessary to report and provide psychosocial and legal support,” explained the Mayor's Office of Medellín.

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