When children start attending school, they should feel that they are in a safe place or environment.
Governments in conjunction with schools and their educators are primarily responsible for taking the necessary care to ensure that their students and schools are free from violence and discrimination, as well as providing a good education to their students.
It is necessary on the part of the governments, to prepare curricula where all these are composed of inclusion and no discrimination in terms of race, sex or social status and thus make the basis for the facilities of the institutions to be the most appropriate possible.
If there is not any type of violence within an educational institution, it is also necessary to address these issues, since students need to know these issues as soon as possible, so they are aware and attentive if they are presented with the case of any type of discrimination by adults or children. For this, teachers will be responsible for following the rules for education proposed by the institution, and so students should learn to behave without being violent.
Currently within national school policies, a major focus on school-related violence is paramount.
Nowadays, violence in schools is a problem that is present in many countries around the world. It can be any type of violence such as physical, psychological or sexual, as a consequence of this there is bullying, verbal abuse, emotional, even corporal punishment. Any of these can occur within schools when norms are broken and gender stereotypes are the ones that keep inequalities afloat.
246 million girls and boys experienced some form of school-related violence in 2014 (UNGEI, 2017).
Although the vast majority of teachers are professionals and while they give importance to the welfare of their students, in some cases it is the same teachers who abuse in their position of power for example, in Central and West Africa there are abuses by teachers and most of them are for sexual acts.
Countries such as Chile, Finland, Peru and the Republics of Korea and Sweden are being pioneers in punishing violence in schools and have already passed laws where this is punished.
In the Philippines since 2013, in an effort to curb bullying in schools, it started with the implementation of policies within schools to prevent bullying and in such case of occurrence respond and act upon them. Despite this, the following year only 38% of schools adopted these child protection guidelines, which demonstrated the lack of communication and guidelines set by the government in favor of child protection.
Within teacher training there are codes of conduct that are necessary to help change or shape teachers' behaviors. In South Sudan, thanks to community input from UNICEF, teachers are working to change the norms that allow sexual violence.
If teacher codes of conduct are enforced, gender-based violence in schools can be significantly reduced.
The Mongolian Code of Ethics for Teachers includes a normative chapter on ethics that encourages teachers to protect the health and well-being of their students.
In conclusion, it can be seen from an accurate point of view that the governments first of all play a fundamental role in making and enforcing the necessary guidelines to avoid any kind of violent behavior in schools, all this is in conjunction with school administrators and teachers since they are the ones who are present in the day to day evolution and studies of their students.
Without further ado, many suicides by students abused by any type of violence can be avoided.