Picture this; the small, nerdy kid in your class opens his locker. Little did he know that the big, athletic kid was standing behind him. The big kid slams his locker shut, and spinning him around, he shoves his books down. The small kid struggles with all his might to get past the athletic kid but it is no use and he stumbles and falls next to his books. A few kids in the hallway observe, but do nothing. The bully gives one last insult and then walks away. It is important to stand up for what you believe in because you can help other by showing them how to be courageous.
It is important to help kids who are being bullied to find a voice. Kids who are being bullied usually are too afraid to or can’t speak out. Therefore they can not be protected or can defend themselves from the bully. Most of the time people are oblivious to these issues. If kids don’t speak out and talk to an adult, a guardian or a teacher; most of the time adults don’t even know this issue is happening. When writing about his childhood in Rowing the Boat, Paul Logan, who was bullied as a child, said this. “I feared humiliation so much that I became skillful at feigning illnesses to get out of gym class (Logan
…show more content…
If you listen to the bully it shows that you are caring about what they say. So if they tell you not to speak out and you listen to them, that gives them power. The reason bullies are bullies is because they want something that the person who is being bullied has or because it is coming from a place of hurt. In the example above the bully was hurting the younger, weaker kid because he was an easy target. This is similar to Paul’s friend George, who one day got beat up at school because Paul refused to be associated with him. “I wanted to talk to him, to ask him how he was, to apologize for leaving him alone and for not trying to stop him from getting hurt. But I couldn’t go near him (Logan pp.
For the school year of 2012-2013, there were about 98,328 public schools in the nation, that would mean that in each and every elementary, Middle, and High school in the nation, an estimated two students do not show up to school because of the fear of being bullied. “Further, students who are being bullied may begin stealing money or being dishonest about being ill” (Levine, 2014). “Children who engage in bullying from a young age may be involved in what is known as precursory bullying. Precursory bullying has implications for future bullying, and is understood as ultimately destructive and damaging” (Levine and Tamburrino, 2014). There is no doubt about this, we’ve all heard about adults that have been bullied as children and are not successful members of society.
Experts say that bullying begins around middle school, where children are changing to young adults. In bullying there are three people involved the bully, the victim, and the bystander. The bystander also holds responsibility when bullying occurs, because they are present but never take part because they fear the intimidator. Often targets are considered to be “different” from others, and that consists of students having specials needs, being gay, bisexual, overweight, or most importantly students who are viewed as easy prey. When bullying is attempted it can ruin a student physically and emotionally influencing the capability of a pupil to learn. It is recorded that in the United States 160,000 teenagers skip school in order to avoid bullying, and one out of ten teens quits school because of continuous tormenting. In 2014 statistics in the U.S. showed that only 20-30 percent of students who are bullied tell an adult or the authorities. The only way bullying can be prevented is when schools make a great effort to create no tolerance programs, and effective rules. That will result...
Imagine coming home from school, you are already upset from getting bullied and then your phone starts beeping. It repeatedly keeps alerting you and it fills up with hateful messages and threats. This is the life of a child who is bullied and harassed, this happens to them constantly until they eventually implode. Adults think of bullying as kids being kids and being a part of life; but, no child should go through the pain and torture of that. Bullying happens across the world, with no cure to it, it 's a plague that needs to stop. Children from the UK, France, and many other countries are subjected to this. In the United States, many cases have been dealt with which involves pre-teens and teens committed
Standing up for what one believes in is crucial. Taking a stance shows that one has a robust sense of their beliefs and morals. Standing up for what one believes in takes
There are many examples of why you should stand up for your principles and what you believe in. Some of these examples include providing informative information to others, standing up for your beliefs and not backing down and making people believe you are confident about your beliefs and that they are correct Firstly, voicing your principles and beliefs can help make decisions. If everyone expresses their own personal beliefs, then their different views may help provide more informative information to others to help in a decision. Said by NO.12, the line “It's up to us to convince this gentleman that we're right
Bullying incidents need to be monitored and stopped when they are happening. Schools need to do more to prevent bullying issues and stop them for good. Most children are too afraid to say anything to
While you should always stand up for your beliefs, there will be those who want to control you and will tell you to sit back down and deal with it. Standing up for what you believe in does not mean going to the streets and rioting, burning down buildings, and murdering people. It means to unite with all the others who have the courage to stand up with you and turn the hate into
Standing up for others is important because it helps society more than what people know, it helps the world by doing something right and not letting the haters get their way. To start off with, People are too scared to speak up for themselves. This is a terrible thing because they let bullies get their way and continue with what they are doing. People should stand up for these people and make it right. Standing up not only benefits the person someone is standing up for, but it benefits them as well.
A bully is someone who picks on other people, because they think it is the way to solve their problems. There are many types of bullying, there is physical, verbal, and mental. Children that are ages five through eleven began using verbal abuse and some even use physical abuse (Garrett 33). People estimated that one hundred and sixty thousand students miss school every day, and twenty-eight million missed school days per year, due to fear of being bullied (Garrett 36). Six million boys and four million girls are involved in fights from being bullied or bullying others (Garrett 33). Also, there is an estimate that over five hundred and twenty-five thousand people are bullies in America (Garrett 35). “Freshman, particularly are the victims of bullies in high school, especially if they are small and smart” (Garrett 31-32). Many people are bullied because of the way they look, or the way they act.“ Children from violent homes are three or four times more likely to become a bully” (Garrett 30). Some bullies may make fun of people because they were made fun of, beaten, or unwanted as they grew up. Most children become bullies to gain power (Verial). Bullies do what they do so they “feel competent, successful, to control someone else, to get some relief from their own feelings of powerlessness” (Garrett 72).When children grow up they may become bullies, because of the abusive environment they were raised in by their parents.
Some people bully because they are unhappy. Someone mom may have made their child unhappy and that mom son may want to make someone else unhappy. If that person...
Bullying is a form of violence, a way to gain the power to repress the weak.
Bullying is a repeated harmful act that continues to affect millions of students every year. There is no stereotypical person that is a target for bullying; anyone can be its victim. There may not always be any signs of physical harm during these attacks, but our children always suffer emotional harm. Educating students, teachers and parents seems to be the only valid solution to this problem. There are many organizations that can educate the schools on this subject but for it to work people must care. Maybe one day, when enough people realize that this problem will not go away with out their help, we can eliminate bullying from our schools. In a perfect world there would be no bullying, but if you could ask Rachel Scott she would tell you we do not live in a perfect world, only a hopeful one.
Bullying can be seen as either pure discrimination against teens, or as a plea against the rough life at home. Some people decide to not say anything because they just feel like it is a waste of time. “I was bullied because of my race, I am Asian, and they used to make me fun of me in class, and the teacher didn’t even say anything and laughed along with the class” (Tiffany). Whereas on the on the other side, you have teenagers who bully to get the stress out from being abused at home. No matter the reason, bullying is not okay, and that is what I am trying to get across.
The answer is simple, they bully so they don’t have to deal with their own problems, which is taking the “easy way out”, according to James Lehman who has a master in Social work. Bullies have not learned how to deal with their own problems, so they take it out on others. One source of bullying is at home. If children are seeing their mom, dad, brother, sister, or even aunts or uncles bullying people, that is how they learn to bully. Bullies use aggression, violence and even verbal abuse. They don’t learn how to solve their problems, so they just threaten other children instead. What does an aggressive bully look like you might ask? Well, they are the children on the playground not playing with anyone or roaming around alone. They may throw and break things because it makes them feel more powerful and in
Bullying is a form of abuse. It is a selfish and destructive act, those who organize bullying denote others for the thrill of aggression and dominance. Mark Dombeck, PH.D, writes in his article, The Long term effects of Bullying that “Narcissists treat other people as though they were objects either to be used, or discarded, and the bully both uses his victim for purposes of self-gratification and aggrandizement and then discards him”. Aggrandizement is the expansion of power. Making something or someone appear greater or more intense. David Frattare states that “Kids feel more powerful when they do not come face to face with the ...