Possible Solutions for exclusion, social isolation, loneliness:
12C
Teams/Clubs/ Activities/Hobbies
Osterman (2000) found that conditions both inside and outside the classroom influence students’ feelings about connection or belongingness (12).
Facilitates relationship development and interpersonal skill acquisition (11)
Find like minded peers. It’s easier to bond and find common ground in a club, activity where they share interests (1).
12F
School
My school board had been working on getting rid of these types of things (though my experience is just at the elementary level) for all of the reasons you listed. We still have parents who get all up in arms about the changes.
The school my kid is at doesn't even allow birthday treats. If it’s a kid’s birthday, the teacher brings in these biscuits (store bought) and they all get to have one. That way it’s not a competition and nobody is left out
Starting social isolation interventions at younger ages makes sense given that loneliness may be experienced at its greatest levels during early adolescence and that its negative effects on health and academic progress are concurrent, cumulative, and long-lasting. The suggestion to act preventively to avoid excessive or chronic loneliness, rather than address loneliness after it sets in, is a stronghold of the positive youth development approach to mitigating negative youth outcomes and experiences (Lerner, Almerigi, Theokas & Lerner, 2005) (12).
If the effects of bullying go unnoticed or untreated for too long, they can have a much more severe negative impact than if they had been addressed early on (8).
a whole-school approach to childhood loneliness is a preferred route because: (a) it does not single out, label, or stigmatize individuals as being lonely, and (b) changing the practices and ethos of social periods—such as lunch and recess—will go a long way towards helping lonely children without singling them out (12).
Bill it as “building love and community through the whole school”. Bam, everybody gets a special treat and nobody feels like garbage.
the focus should be not on providing social skills training for the victims, but, rather, on working to create inclusive environments where fair and equal treatment of others is the norm, where children are encouraged to take the perspective of others, and where prejudice and bias are not tolerated (Killen et al., 2013; Mulvey et al., 2013) (13).
To lessen the impact of bullying, it’s important to help young people feel like they are welcome just as they are. Here are a few ways to help others feel included (8):
Focus on activities that encourage everyone to get involved
Encourage kids to give genuine compliments to each other
Discourage comparing oneself to other people
Help kids to focus on their strengths
Reward those who go out of their way to help other people
These simple steps can go a long way toward helping young people feel more included and reduce bullying (8).
Bullying prevention programs implemented school-wide are effective in reducing bullying and victimization, including rejection and exclusion (Farrington & Ttofi, 2009).
Program characteristics that may be particularly effective include sharing information with parents, increasing supervision during playground time, using both punitive and non punitive responses to bullying, and using technology such as videos and games to increase awareness of bullying (Farrington & Ttofi, 2009). (13)
12G
Government
The federal government provides 13.6% of funding for public K-12 education (17).
I agree, this shit hurts my heart. There has to be better ways to raise money…
Her school is asking for money every single week for something.
But don't put the onus on kids to fund it by having them hock bullshit. It seems purposefully obtuse.
I always HATED being forced to sell shit to people during school. I don't agree with pushing that kind of tactic/stress on any kid. Many of them are already incredibly anxious with everything they are going through as it is. If you want to ask for donations to the school to help with supplies/school shit, fine - just ask for that. I would rather send in money directly if I am able.
Maybe schools should be holding these check fundraisers in the state capitol building since that's who's supposed to be funding them in the first place.
I mean that's nice that you know where the money's going, but it should still be coming from the state, not parents' and teachers' pockets.
Sources:
(1) https://carolinemaguireauthor.com/help-a-kid-who-is-being-ostracized-feeling-left-out/
(2) https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/how-to-talk-with-parents-about-cliques-and-exclusion/
(3) https://afineparent.com/positive-parenting-faq/social-exclusion.html
(4) https://psychcentral.com/health/why-feeling-left-stings-and-healthy-ways-to-cope#why-it-bothers-you
(6) https://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/04/rejection
(7) https://gsdrc.org/topic-guides/social-exclusion/causes/exclusion-based-on-social-status-or-identity/
(8) https://www.mcleanhospital.org/essential/bullying-kids-teens
(9) https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1368214/full
(10) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22889163/
(11) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740924000148
(12) https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1184924.pdf
(13) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6085085/
(14) (https://conversationstoremember.org/loneliness-and-isolation/#:~:text=Loneliness%2C%20on%20the%20other%20hand,of%20a%20hostile%20social%20environment.)
(15) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022519321003581
(16) https://elifesciences.org/articles/78246
(17) https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statistics
(19) https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=898
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