Exposure to Gender Based Violence and Its Influence on Bullying Behavior

This work will not aid in placing programs to support or prevent exposure to gender based violence and its influences on bullying behavior at Belmopan Comprehensive High School.

This study will not identify a student by name that displays:

 The highest level of exposure on Gender Based violence at home or school.

 The effects of the exposure to violence at home.

 The student’s collaborative academic work performance in his or her classroom.

Also, this study will not reveal the methods used by administration and staff at Belmopan Comprehensive High School to punish the student. Nor will it determine the emotions teachers or students feel towards The Exposure to Gender Based Violence and its influence on Bullying Behavior at Belmopan Comprehensive High School. This study will not evaluate teacher’s exposure to gender based violence and its influences on bullying behavior at Belmopan Comprehensive High School.

Importance of the study

The importance of this study is to enhance our understanding on how to decipher the root cause of bullying behavior and its occurrences on gender base violence at Belmopan Comprehensive High school. Bullying can threaten students’ physical and emotional safety at school and can negatively impact their ability to learn. By assessing school’s prevention and intervention efforts around student behavior will determine how often bullying occurs. Also, it will determine where it happens, how students and adults intervene, and whether the prevention efforts are working.

Below gives in detail description why is it that The Exposure to Gender Based Violence and its influence on Bullying Behavior at Belmopan Comprehensive High School is being studied.

• To identify the level of exposure on Gender Bas...

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