Leah Whisenant
Mrs. Pleas
English Composition II
08 September 2015
Bullying: What It Is and What Schools Are Doing About It
Background:
What is bullying? It is often described as “behavior that occurs repeatedly and over time intentionally inflicts physical and/ or psychological injury on another individual.” It is an issue that threatens the well beings of children and teenagers. Fifty percent of American children in school have conceded to being bullied in ways such as being left out, being physically abused, and mentally abused (Clay). Ten percent admitted to being cyberbullied (Swearer). Bullying often targets race, disability, national origin, physical appearance, gender, religion, and many more.
There are four main types of bullying
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My argument is that the bullying issue has not been solved in most schools. Schools need to be an environment for children to learn. Many schools are not putting forward the effort to put and end to bullying. During the years of 1950-1980, the statistics of bullying are much higher than they were back then. Victims of bullies endure depression, anxiety, relationship issues, and a lack of self esteem. Often these behaviors can eventually lead to lack of interest in school. It can lead to absences, disapproval of school, lack of participation and school activities, and reduced academic scores …show more content…
The topic of bullying is an issue that has always been close to my heart. When I was seven years old, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor called a Craniopharyngioma on my pituitary gland. As a result of the tumor and surgery, I gained excess weight. I was also informed I would have to take steroids and hormone replacements for the rest of my life, which also contributed to the weight gain. I returned to school about 4 or 5 months after surgery. I returned back to school bald and overweight, stimulated by the giant mass in my head. Under the circumstances, all of my friends vanished, I was called names no one should be called or labeled, and was neglected by my whole grade. I was treated like this just because I appeared different. I was looked upon like I was invisible. (This is an example of verbal and relation abuse, a type of bullying where the victim undergoes name calling and ignorance.) I endured this type of bullying until about eighth grade. Ninth grade through about tenth grade I experienced mainly the last form of bullying listed, relation/ social abuse. These last few years of high school, the bullying turned into talking and laughing behind my back. This type of bullying was unfavorable to me because I didn’t know who was saying what. Given my experience with bullying, I take this topic very seriously. Whether victims are battling rumors or discrimination, kids are getting bullied all the time at schools
Many people do not realize how serious bullying has become. If you look at statistics suicides due to bullying have increased over just a few short years. This has become a very big problem for not only the victim but the bully as well as it affect both of them. School bullying is mentally destructive to not only the victims, but bullies because of the harmful words, harassment, and physical violence involved as well as the consequences for the bully.
According to ABC news, in October 2013, bullying is on the rise. The last couple of years the news and social media have been filled with stories of bullying. Just last week, there was a story on ABC news about a fifteen year old autistic boy from Ohio, who was deceived into pouring a bucket of urine and feces on his head. The pranksters told the boy that it was for the ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) ice bucket challenge. The boy trusted the pranksters and in return he was mortified. After finding out about this story, I began to wonder what makes someone bully others. I also started to think about how my high school bullying experience was, and how I had been at both sides of bullying. I then did some research on stopbulling.gov. According
Bullying has become a major problem facing the United States today. The American Psychological Association reports that roughly 40% to 80% of children are involved in bullying on some level during their time in school. (APA, 2014) The magnitude of the problem can be observed in the statistics. In the United States, a total of 4,080,879 children between the ages of five and 18 have been the victims of bullying compared to 3,892,199 who have reported that they have engaged in bullying someone else. Additionally, 851,755 said that they have been both the victim and the bully. That's a whopping 8,824,833 people in the United States that have been involved in bullying behavior on one level or another. (High, B., 2000 Census)
Bullying is the use of superior strength or influence to intimidate someone; typically to force him or her to do what one wants. Even if bullying is as old as classrooms, since the past decade, states moved to address legislatives. This once was simply known as usual domains of schools (Toppo 1). Bullying is not new in our culture, however the after effects of bullying someone are extremely critical. “According to the U.S.
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Bullying is something that is not something new and is actually something that society continues to face. Over the years, bullying has been looked at as being so ordinary in schools that it is continuously overlooked as an emanate threat to students and has been lowered to a belief that bullying is a part of the developmental stage that most young children will experience then overcome (Allebeck, 2005, p. 129). Not everyone gets over the extreme hurt that can come as an effect from bullying, for both the bully and the victim. Because of this, we now see bullying affecting places such as the workplace, social events and even the home. The issue of bullying is not only experienced in schools, but the school environment is one of the best places
Bullying does not have a standard definition. Bullying can be anything from calling someone else names, beating them up just for the fun of it, to texting or messaging them on the internet or any mobile device. Any person can be the victim of bullying, not just children. Bullying causes many issues, physically, emotionally, and mentally, not only for the victim, but for their entire families as well. Bullies have many different reasons as to why they start bullying someone else. The actions done to the victim leaves them with only a few options on how to stop being bullied. How they handle it is always different.
Bullying is defined as the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively to impose domination over others and is often repeated and habitual. Bullying is something that can manifest in all kinds of places whether it be at home, school, or in the community. There are different ways that bullying can manifest at home. For example, we often hear of fathers trying to “toughen up” their sons up and make them into a man, when in reality, they are bullying their children to make them tough. Parents often allow their sons to be aggressive and rough and find it appropriate for them to physically hurt other people. They often say “boys will be boys” as if that behavior is normal and okay. Well, it is not normal or appropriate behavior, that kind of behavior is only teaching them to be aggressive in society and to bully other people. This type ...
Have you ever been personally bullied by another person? Maybe you have not had your head forced into a locker, but verbally hurt? Bullying today can be quite serious. Bullying is when someone tries to hurt another person by hitting them or by simply hurting them with their words. Bullying is something that can have a huge impact on its victims. It might be something that lasts throughout their lives, or something that might cause them to take their lives. Bullies make small groups so that they can pick on other students who are small, fragile, and who can not defend themselves. Picking on someone should not be accepted because it can affect a person's well being in a drastic way. Bullying is believed to be a normal part of school life. However, when people begin to have that mentality they forget that bullying is psychologically and physically harmful to both the victim and the bully.
Bullying of students in school is an abuse that affects and produces a number of negative experiences on the victim. It is proven that those students who bully do so merely because they see themselves superior than those being bullied. They use this as a tactic to make juniors fear them and show them that they are not equal in any way. Some will even bully as a revenge of the bullying they suffered in the past. I have been bullied before and I know some of the effects it could have on a person. Bullying is a serious cause of many issues and has effects that may be long lasting.
As a society, we often underestimate the damages that bullying cause on children, not just America but all over, and the ones who suffer are the victims themselves. Victims are damaged with the stigma that they are weak, yet somehow have to fend for themselves against something that they have little to no control over. Whether it is for funding, a reputation or any other reason schools sweep their bullying problem under the rug or turn a blind eye, however they have more potential to end this growing issue. To the schools that think bullying is not their problem, they should know that according to heyugly.org, an anti-bullying campaign, “Approximately, 160,000 children a day stay home from school in fear of being bullied.”They also point out