Anti Bullying Programs And Schools

Despite the anti-bullying campaign that’s been established in every school across America, bullying still happens. For a lot of students, school is an unsafe, uncomfortable environment. Bullying happens in many different forms and sometimes it’s hard to recognize.

Bullying is defined as “verbal, physical, or psychological abuse or teasing accompanied by real or perceived imbalance of power” and is usually targets what children perceive as different (Olweus, 1993). Bullying is prevalent across the nation. It has devastating effects on students each day. Bullying is a problem for all students, regardless of race, gender or class. The National Education Association reports that 160,000 children are absent intentionally from school each day because they fear being bullied whether it is an attack or just intimidation by other students. This accounts for 15% of all school absenteeism (Hunter, 2012). Dan Olweus (1993) from the National School Safety Center tells us that bullying includes three parts: (1)

Bullying at school is a big problem that is found in all the schools in the United States and across the world. Since the late 1990s there have been several fatal school shootings committed by victims of bullying that have brought bullying major media attention. This has resulted in an increase of awareness about the harmful effects on the kids being bullied as well as the bullies themselves. This has brought a large amount of local, state, and nationwide programs designed to try to prevent bullying or to at least try to contain the problem. “In an effort to adequately address the problem, many schools are taking a proactive approach through prevention and intervention, but how do we know if and when such intervention is effective? First and foremost, we must have an accurate understanding of the dynamic and complex phenomenon of bullying across development and as it spans the multiple levels of the social ecology” (Casper, Meter, & Card, 2015, par 2). Many psychologists, sociologists, and school administrators have been publishing research on school bullying. Bullying is a significant threat to many children because it causes psychological problems not only for those who get bullied but also those who do the bullying. Even though bullying is a significant problem the are few solutions that can help prevent or significantly reducing bullying like reporting bullying, know the characteristics, and passing laws.

“You may have noticed that this years’ trendy trauma is bullying, which replaces last years’ obesity.” (Nachman, 2011). In his article Gerald Nachman recounts how years ago it was a part of being a kid in school to be teased at some point and it made you a stronger person to come through school surviving the process. There has been an increase in the sensational media coverage of violence attributed to bullying. Almost weekly, there are headline news items concerning acts of violence committed on school grounds, which involve shootings of innocent students by disgruntled gunmen. The underlying cause is portrayed to be a result of some sort of bullying at

Despite its recent resurgence into the spotlight, bullying is still a problem in schools across the country. While most states have adopted or enacted anti-bullying policies and laws, bullying incidents occur far too frequently to believe that the problem is under control. Although there may never be a single strategy or program to end all bullying in schools, there are promising approaches that warrant our attention. Anti-Bullying initiatives, such as P.R.E.S.S. and RIPP, which promote school unity, classroom safety and community involvement, are proving to be more successful than the current practices used in schools today. Furthermore, the implementation of these initiatives in every school could possibly be the antidote to the bullying

Topic: In schools every day across the United States, children have been victimized by some form of bullying. It is vital for school leadership to recognize and deal with bullying immediately, as well as, enforcing school codes of conduct and maintaining an environment that supports accountability to ensure that all students feel safe and secure while getting the education they deserve.

School Anti-Bullying Programs Ineffective was written by Marc Brackett and Diana Divecha. Marc Brackett, Ph.D, is the director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, research scientist in the department of Psychology at Yale University, and Deputy director of Yale's Health, Emotion, and Behavior Laboratory. Marc has authored, coauthored, and edited over sixty scholarly publications on this subject. Diana Divecha , Ph.D, is a developmental psychologist and research affiliate with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. She has worked with children with developmental disabilities, mental illness, and severe behavior problems.

Programs, across the United States, have been introduced to raise students' awareness of bullying in an attempt to reduce it. I believe that these anti-bullying programs are important in order for bullies, as well as victims, to change their behavior. Anti-bullying programs push victims to be more vocal about their situation, give security to those who are being/have been bullied, and provide help for bullies.

As mentioned in Choosing the Right Anti-Bullying Program, an effective anti-bullying program targets the entire school climate rather than just specific peer interactions. An effective bullying program employs supports and strategies at each level within the building- from individual students and classrooms to ant-bullying teams that combine educators and students. Supportive anti-programs isolate perpetrators by promoting a zero tolerance policy with regards to harassment and bullying. Finally of the most important, and often underrepresented, pieces of the anti-bullying puzzle focuses on school and home partnerships. If a policy helps educate the students about bullying, creates an environment where there is zero tolerance for it, shows the consequences for students who are involved and require parents and educators to remain firm on negative peer interaction then it will be an effective program. It will help prevent bullying and will decrease the number of students

Finally, it is very important for everyone to work together to set up a safe environment for our children by sending out a unified message against bullying. Teachers and school officials are at the core of any bullying prevention program. They can create a code of conduct, a mission statement, school wide rules as well as a bully reporting system. Doing this will show an environment in which bullying is not acceptable. The teachers and the school officials are unable to do this alone; engaging the parents and youth will help the students feel safer when they are in a classroom setting.

Approximately one out of four people have been bullied, but few measures have been done to help this group effectively. Anti-bullying programs are not efficient in helping those involved in bullying, as some only scratch the surface, and those that are effective can cost a lot of money. It’s not just the anti-bullying programs’ lack of efficiency, however, it’s the victims’ efforts as well. The victims do little to tell adults in fear. The bystanders are also included; they don’t take action in helping the victims. We should change this. We can’t go on in our lives and ignore the fact that others are being bullied right now, in other schools, all over the world, and that soon, worse things will happen. Better measures should be used to prevent

Should schools implement bullying awareness programs? Maybe that wouldn’t be such a bad idea because it will help kids and teachers to understand how to help those that are being bullied and it will show kids the consequences or effects it can have on their victim. In the past kids got bullied because of what they wore or how they acted and it led to serious conditions or even suicidal thoughts. So maybe if districts did put this program in their schools there would be less bullying in general.

Bullying has become more predominant in today’s school systems, including the Sevier County School System. Students in today’s school systems have to deal with bullies on a daily basis throughout the academic school year. Over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year (I Beat Bullying). The majority of bullying occurs in classrooms with other students. Bullying can also occur at home, church, after school programs, public playgrounds, online and many other places. Nationally seventy-one percent of students report that bullying is a problem at their schools (I Beat Bullying). Bullying is becoming more common in school systems and happening more rapidly in today’s time than in previous years. Some bullying cases are not reported due to the fear of the person being bullied. If students and the public knew the issues behind bullying, then society could reverse bullying as a whole. Bullying is a problem in the Sevier County School System and many other school systems nationwide. Bullying can be reversed by having teachers teach students about bullying in the classroom and by informing the parents and guardians on the issue of bullying in the classrooms.

School bullying and bullying as a whole has become a growing concern. The need for more intervention is more recognized, as incidents of bullying and inappropriate acts towards others occur in places outside of the classroom. This literature takes a closer look at bullying in schools. Olwesus (2013) states “the field of bullying research is to some extent plagued by problems, disagreements, and unresolved issues” (p.752). Whether if anyone will agree on the root of bullying, the fact remains that bullying has to be examined at its very core to remedy the matter before it becomes a bigger concern. There is a dire need for intervention based programs to be set in place to address the fact the act of bullying has lasting effects on the bully and the victim. When intervention programs are put into place to address bullying, the act of bullying decreases due to the gained understanding of the effects.

“With ignorance comes fear – from fear comes bigotry. Education is the key to acceptance.” –Kathleen Patel. That is a famous saying that indirectly shows how to stop bullying, it says that to stop bullying people need to have a good education. Bullying is the act of aggressive and continuous behavior against a weaker person that leads to physical and/or mental injuries. Most of bullying cases occur during childhood and in school years; this makes a kid to be afraid of going to school and not seizing the opportunity of having a good education. To stop this serious problem schools must take action on an anti-bullying campaign and make the school a safer place. The imminent change needs to be promoted at two levels. First at the home level, the family needs to create a charming atmosphere where the kid feels love. Then in the classroom or school where teachers can provide direct discussions with children who are victims of bullying and with the ones who harass.