Bullying: An Avoidable Harm
For many years, bullying was seen as a rite of passage but recently it has been seen as a tramatic event that scars a person's life well into adulthood. "Once considered a 'normal' part of growing up, being bullied is now both nationally and internationally recognized as damaging to children. The ideas...are outdates and dangerous"(Tarshis 59).Bullying is causing the same harmful effects all over the world.
Many factors enable a bully to attack a victim. Although some of these factors cannot be controlled, many can be prevented through anti-bullying programs and the actions of counselors, students, parents, and teachers. Bullying is a growing problem today in which students and adults facilitate the behavior. This world-wide predicament causes many negative long-term effects for both the bully and victim.
Bullying has three main components to it. First, the bully has to intimidate or physically hurt a victim. Next, an obvious unbalance of power is seen between the bully and victim. Last, the bully continuously harasses the victim. This harasment can cause a victim to become unengaged in school, have lower test scores, and a loss of friends. It can also lead adolesence to do drugs, get involved in altercations, and even harm with weapons."The United States Secret Service did a study examining the characteristics of students who had initiated school shootings. The results were published in 2002 reporting that being bullied was a factor in 71 percent of school shootings in the
United States" (Tarshis 60). Bullying is still a major cause for school shootings all over the United States.
The most widely recognized form of bullying is physical bullying. Males most often engage in this f...
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... (Viadero 3).One program will not work for every school because each school environment is unique. Instead, different programs should be used depending on the school. When schools offer counseling it shows the students that the school is serious about the bullying problem.
Once considered a part of growing up, bullying is just recently being seen as a serious problem that effects many people. The effects on the mind can be extremely damaging and sometimes unreversible. Most of the time adults are seen as safe havens for victims but adults often help facilitate bully behavior. If schools wish to curve these unacceptablel behaviors, they need to find a anti-bullying program that will effectivly work with their school environment. Overall, when adults and other students do nothing about the situation at hand they are actually encouraging bully behavior.
The results of this are what trigger the creation of unhealthy habits like lying and cheating and going against everything you’re told is bad and not to do when you’re a child but is reversed when you turn into a teenager who wants to be rebellious.
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)
In conclusion, School Violence is a widespread issue that must be addressed. School shootings and bullying are some of the biggest issues in today’s school system. Many times the seed of the issue begins with bullying and ends with consequences like suicide and school shootings. They affect people as early as elementary school all the way to the college level, some even ending with death. Only together can we stop school violence if we take a stand and change the world.
Over the last decade, bullying has really been a worldwide issue. Bullying is affecting children all over the world and has grown into a huge epidemic. According to the National Education Association, “160,000 kids stay home from school each day to ...
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School shootings and suicides result from continuous bullying. As a result, after time some side effects of...
In response to expressed concerns over the causes of the Columbine High School massacre and other school shootings, some schools have renewed existing anti-bullying policies, in addition to adopting a zero tolerance approach to possession of weapons and threatening behavior by students. (Kass, 2000). Despite these and other responses, it did not stop school massacres and history would repeat itself again on April 16th,
Bullying, often dismissed as a normal part of growing up, is a real problem in our nation's schools, according to the National School Safety Center. One out of every four schoolchildren endures taunting, teasing, pushing, and shoving daily from schoolyard bullies. More than 43 percent of middle- and high-school students avoid using school bathrooms for fear of being harassed or assaulted. Old-fashioned schoolyard hazing has escalated to instances of extortion, emotional terrorism, and kids toting guns to school. It is estimated that more than 90 percent of all incidents of school violence begin with verbal conflicts, w...
Bullying is considered a violent act among children that occurs all over the United States. Bullying has come under scrutiny in the media following recent horrific school shootings such as the famous Columbine High School shooting, believed to be the result of bullying. Bullying can inhibit a child's ability to learn, which inevitably leads to other social issues. Schools across the United States have sent a message to parents and the community stating that bullying will no longer be tolerated.
Bullying is still present, terrorizing the victims. Acts of bullying still occur on several locations, including: acts of teasing, calling names, picking on people’s looks and backgrounds, and so on. Bullying is inescapable through school grounds, online, and much more.
In a CNN study by Chuck Hadad he states “That bullying is pervasive even though the schools have anti-bullying programs from kindergarten through 12th grade, assemblies throughout the year, and a peer-to-peer program where older students talk to younger students about the dangers of bullying” (Hadad). Robert Faris, a sociologist found that bullies and victims are generally the same person. Whe...
Bullying is a form of violence, a way to gain the power to repress the weak.
Shootings and physical violence are only part of the problem in schools. More than twenty percent of students have encountered bullying whi...
they can potentially ruin relationships and result to social isolation. This can hinder the child's
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.