About Us

Professional Summary

Bullying is not a minor issue and that is why together with my classmates we want to stop it. For example, in my school we used to have a lot of physical aggression and violence of different types. With the "Child-led Research" program, we have worked all year to understand the issues of violence that affect us and to put an end to these violent behaviours. First, we started creating our own rules of coexistence. Mine was "to respect others", such as when someone raises their hand to speak, he or she must be given the floor and be listened to until they have finished speaking..

We decided to investigate bullying in our school to know how to stop it. Bullying can happen because of the type of clothing or physical appearance, sexual orientation of a person among other things. We formed a group of child researchers and we interviewed students and teachers. We also investigated what was the percentage of bullying in Chile, which is as high as 86 per cent. This is a major figure since it represents the number of people who have been bullies, have, observed or been victims of bullying.

To understand more in depth how bullying affects us, we interviewed a teacher who gave us her own testimony about being subjected of bullying when she was a student at the school. She lost the sight in her left eye as she was physically bullied. She became a disabled person who cannot get a drivers license and cannot do many things as a result of bullying. 

We discovered that a classmate suffered a lot of bullying. We used to bully him before and I included myself amongst the bullies. He was bullied because his face was different. When I understood what we were doing I felt terrible.  Now things have changed and nobody bothers him. With the program of child-led research our school has changed and we are making major efforts to stop bullying and other forms of violence: no one is physically, verbally and psychologically assaulted anymore.