Bullying And Its Effects On Society

Bullying, often labeled as just a part of growing up, is a major problem in America’s schools today. Although it is such a hot topic in our country right now, it is also a long ignored problem that only seems to worsen. The complication with bullying is that no one quite understands it, and it is not taken seriously. The definition of bullying is an overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people. In more simple terms, bullying is not a onetime incident; it is repetitive and happens among individuals when there is an imbalance of power. Statistically, every one in six children are bullied, and this cannot continue to take place. Every child has the right to feel safe and have the pursuit of being happy in which bullying completely takes those rights away.

Issue: If you or your child have ever been a victim of bullying then you know how horrible one can feel. There are many emotions and fears associated with bullying, and no one should have to be subjected to it. Bullying can have a lasting effect not only in one’s present life but their future as well. Bullying is very prominent in schools today, and there has been an increase in school shootings, which is the extreme reaction to being bullied. Children need to consider each other’s feelings before they decide to bully or pick on each other.

With males all of the things described from the female perspective can also occur. A lot of it has to do with the physical aspect of

A bully is 5 times more likely to have a serious criminal record when he grows up.

According to the Journal of School Health, 71% of students report incidents of bullying as a problem at their school (“11 facts”). Bullying is widespread epidemic and it is one of the most unreported safety problems that occur on school campuses across the nation. People take days away from school to avoid being terrorized, see their academic performance decrease, experience depression, and in extreme cases take their own lives, or kill some of their schoolmates due to the fact that they were constantly burdened with people bullying them. Can you imagine seeing your own child apprehensive about going to school because they are haunted by the memories of constantly being called names, having false rumors spread between their peers, or even, battered? I have noticed that bullying is often dismissed by people because they believe that it is just

Bullying has always played a negative role in schools, it damages students and prevents them from obtaining self confidence and motivation to achieve more without having someone to abusively criticize. This issue has spread rapidly across the schools of america, there’s many kids that are currently going through this stage in school. In fact, each day 160,000 students miss school for fear of being bullied. Missing school because of bully abuse just shows how traumatized this issue has left them, worst thing is that the excuse for missing school is almost always made up, because they even fear to let people know that they are being bullied. There’s different kinds of abuse in schools, mentally, verbally or physically. The earliest stages of

Bullying is a national tragedy that claims the lives of thousands of young children and teenagers every year and even though there is national spotlight on the issue, there seems to be little done about it due to the constant ability to change around the old prevention methods and the expansion of loop-holes. The effects of bullying have deep emotional trauma because nobody likes to be circled out from a group and get picked on knowing that you’re always going to be the center of attention and hate no matter what you do. Some people who get bullied have a strong sense about themselves and can tolerate the bullying that they get and just push it to the side, while others are not so fortunate and this can result in committing suicide and

It is pretty obvious as to why the bullying should be addressed. Simply because no one deserves to deal with such humiliation, and undergo any type of depression. School bullying is definitely a major issue that should be addressed and dealt with by school officials, teachers, etc. All schools should increase security measures, promote better anti-bullying programs, and possibly find more reasonable punishments

Bullying is an abuse that hurts someone, either emotionally or physically. 3-4 year old children repeat some actions again and again intentionally to hurt someone and irritate other people through those actions or hit someone again and again for the same purpose (McIntyre & Franks, n.d.). In 3-4 year olds, bullying is considered intentional. There are three to four kinds of bullying in early childhood we can identify (physical, verbal, and cyberbullying). There are also some steps through which parents can over-come bullying because if parents don 't stop bullying during early childhood, bullying will increase with the growth of that child (Storey & Slaby, 2013). There are too many problems with bullying, such as stereotyping, which is one of the major issue that will occur if parents do not control their children in early childhood. Children can also develop dysfunctional relationships later in life as a result. For example, a child in her early childhood, whose name is Rena, is constantly being bullied by her cousin, Chris. He bites her arms and pulls her hair because she plays with his toys. Rena may carry her hate towards him from now till the time she grows up and by then she will only see negativity in Chris and would hate him forever. That is if her parents don 't change her perception of Chris while she 's still in the early years of childhood. That 's bullying and that 's only one problem with it. There are so many other issues like this at the age of 3-4.

If a student witnesses a group of kids huddled around and teasing a shy girl in their class about the way her hair is braided, that student may try to decide if one should say something. When no one else is getting involved and one does not want to be a new part of their group ridicule, it may give pause. Any pause in this situation is too much time wasted while another child suffers at the hands of bullying.

In example #2 of the bullying cases in which the female middle school student committed suicide after being harassed by her peers over a “sexting” photo, the school demonstrated significant incompetence in both government anti-bullying protocols as well as legal, moral, and ethical imperatives based on bullying research in the field of school psychology. This is shown by the exclusive focus on the student’s sexting photo and not on the later acts of bullying and their psychological implications in an environment populated by young people at a critical stage of cognitive and social development. Although the federal trial court dismissed the parent’s lawsuit based on “the school not being in a custodial relationship with the student at the time of the suicide,” this ruling represents a superficial understanding of the psychological impact of bullying in a school context and the school’s ethical and moral responsibility to develop a comprehensive plan to create an anti-bullying culture among faculty, students, and parents that extends beyond the school year. In the following, I will discuss in detail the specific areas of incompetence demonstrated by the school and how and why this incompetence weakens its moral, ethical, and legal foundation.

Bullying has been escalating to a certain degree that it has affected as many as 160,000 students that reported staying home from school every day, because they were afraid of being bullied (www.stompoutbullying.org). Bullying does not only stops one from wanting to go to school, it also makes one feel anxious, insecure, and unhappy at school, isolated and at times severely depressed (Young, Shin Kim, and Leventhal). Schools must have better resources available to students; this includes the victim and the bully. The victim should have both better counseling and stricter laws to protect them. Bullies also need counseling due to research which states “that many bullies tend to come from families where parents are more

A great number of schools lack the education in addressing the bullying problem. Some schools either choose to take action, or others choose to ignore the situation. The school administrators conclude that if an act of bullying cannot be seen, then the problem does not exist. In the guide “Bullying in Schools”, the author implies that: most students do not report bullying to adults. Surveys from a variety of countries confirm that many victims and witnesses fail to tell teachers or even parents. As a result, teachers may underestimate the extent of bullying in their school and may be able to identify only a portion of the actual bullies. Studies also suggest that children do not believe that most teachers intervene when told (Sampson). The most effective way to deal with bullying would be first to address the problem. School administrators remain reluctant in being more assertive yet experts report that reducing the prevalence of bullying is an important goal for school personnel (Good, McIntosh & Gietz).

It 's thirty minutes till the school bell rings, A terrified twelve year old girl sobs begging her mother to keep her from school. Meanwhile, across town another twelve year old young lady tries to arrive to school ready to learn, she is detoured by her raging mother mad because clothes are not folded properly in their place. The sobbing pre-teen will be coerced to go to school and, the one with family problems finally arrives thirty minutes late finishing her homework on the car ride all the while mother has yet to halt the abuse. Unknowingly these social differences result in catastrophe. So we ignore the common variables within our family that make bullies and define the bullied.

Bullying is defined as unwanted or aggressive behavior that causes someone to feel afraid or intimidated. This behavior could be something physical, verbal or something done electronically or through social media. If someone feels threatened by someone’s actions or words, it could be considered bullying, even if that was not the intent. In my Senior project paper, I will discuss the types of bullying, how to recognize bullying, how to report bullying, what to do if you see incidents of bullying and what resources are available to person who have been bullied.