MONTREAL- Give a guess what children fear the most at school. If you speculated it was the dreaded pop quiz, you'd be wrong. But, if you guessed it was bullying, then you'd be correct. As you read, British schools are allowing head teachers to "impose instant expulsion" to any student that's seen bullying: with or without a weapon in schools. With the hopes to "nip it in the bud", schools all over Britain are punishing the bully through expulsion and then "schooling in new referral units" to try and cease the physical and verbal violence that takes place in schools.

Nowadays, brutality, in all forms at school is at its peak and steps have to be taken so that it is immediately banned. So some people might say, why bother? It's not as if it will cease all forms of aggression in school anyways. True. There will now and forever be the feared "bully" that will harass the littler kids and pilfer milk money while being admired by his fellow 'popular' peers. Through picking on the so-called underdogs, children begin harboring feelings such as hate, self-loathing and depression and it was all because he or she was called four-eyes and pushed against a locker while others just stood and laughed or flat out ignored it.

That’s why schools are now banning the actions of bullies and enforcing rules against bullying to ensure that it doesn't happen in the future at all. Britain has now taken the matter of "the bully" into their own hands and has decided to do something against the traumatic events that some children and teenagers are subjected to on a daily basis. Good for them, though some can't help but wonder, what took so long? Suicide rates are the highest among those who are bullied and picked on because of either physical appearance or intelligence. It's a shame really.

Many people are ec static that this cruelty will finally have barriers put up and rules established. Yet, one can't help feeling that expelling a child, then having them shipped off to another school is a tad harsh. It is true that people who have committed acts of bullying shouldn't be allowed to get away without any type of punishment, but there are alternatives to banishing them to another school. Counseling for one seems more humane than expulsion and through this, the bully might find substitute ways to vent his or her frustration and rage. It may work or it may not. But for now, by placing students with this 'disease' in the proper facilities, not only is Britain setting the problematic students on the right track for their future, but they're also ensuring the safety of the countless innocents that are unfortunately

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