“Bullying occurs in school playgrounds every 7 minutes and in classrooms every 25 minutes” (Bullying Myths 2009). This shows that bullying is no small issue, and it is not going to decrease without community support. When the people who lead our country, say horrible things about its people it is hard to understand that bullying is wrong. How can adults, parents, or teachers expected young people to understand that bullying is wrong when they see the most powerful people in America doing it on CNN. Even though, politicians are saying hurtful things to the American public that confuses America's youth, there are resources working to spread awareness. The problem is that politicians make bullying look okay and normalized. In a society where people leading our country say horrible things about all kinds of people, how are we going to make our youth understand that it is not an American value. One popular candidate in the 2016 election is Donald Trump he has said many offensive things about a wide variety of people. He once said “Ariana Huffington is unattractive, both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man – he made a good decision”(Norlis 2016). When he …show more content…
It seems they are making bullying socially acceptable. When kids see national leaders being bullies on national television, and have no consequences they think the same rules apply to them. However, this is not the case, bulling has consequences, for both parties, the bully and the victim. Children do not understand this concept, and this is something they will never understand. The only way to fix this confusion is to hold the adults responsible. “It is our responsibility to recognize bullying when it is happening, when it is being normalized, when it is being made socially acceptable” (Barr). If the politicians are not held responsible for the things they say the problem will only
According to the article, Meet the New Sheriff by Suzanne McCabe, “One out of every five students are bullied or are bullies themselves.” This one piece of ground-breaking evidence is enough to destroy our society, and our children’s lives forever. Bullying is a highly discussed topic that American children face every day and it’s near impossible to stop. There are also topics within bullying, like how students become bullies, or how to stop bullying, also which is worse being a bystander or being a bully. And you can’t deny that bullies are almost like mad serial killers, they go around and they don’t stop even if they get into trouble. There are so many topics on bullying that you can’t even count them all. “Everyone has been bullied for
Many people fear that the impending induction of the president-elect into office will erase efforts to decrease bullying. Since Donald Trump’s election as president, hate crimes have piqued, not only in adult society, but also on high school and college campuses.
As society has become revolved around materials and money, it has made it tougher for kids to fit in and be considered “cool”. To make someone suffer from physical and emotional abuse is awfully horrible and only leads to consequences on both sides of the situations. Fortunately, the bullying laws enacted protect helpless victims and help a lot to stop bullying but need to be strictly enforced because many kids still suffer from bullying.
We do it all the time, and our children are even better at it than we are. Parents, teachers, neighbors, bus drivers - we all can do our part to raise children who see themselves as human rights defenders. In doing so, we're not just creating safer schools for them but also passing on to them a more just and peaceful world. Two children in every classroom in America are estimated to miss at least one day of school each month because they feel unsafe. Local governments realize we cannot afford to dismiss youth violence as simply "kids being kids." Anti-bullying legislation has been passed in 49 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. As schools progress with the anti-bullying slogan at least out of all of those kids in the class at least two students are at least going to miss one day of school each month of the school year. Following the implementation of STTP, according to a forthcoming independent study we commissioned, Bucyrus students reported a change in attitude regarding bullying, particularly their awareness of bullying as an issue. Administrators have seen an increase in reports of bullying, and one student described the STTP activities as "helpful not just in handling bullying, but [providing] reasons to be more open-minded about other people." As schools initiated the STTP program more students had an attitude adjustment and had regards about bullying other people. As students get bullied out of all the schools
I think kids nowadays are so thin skinned. What are they going to do in the real world? I mean everyone is on this anti bullying wagon when they need to be teaching their children that someone else’s opinion of them is irrelevant. I’m not saying that bullying is right but I am saying that it is a part of life.
Isn’t it scary that humans are incredibly powerful creatures who can make the world either a peaceful place or an unbearable hell? Unfortunately, this almost godly power is very often abused in various ways. A simple word or sentence can be as impactful as sparking a war or bringing peace to a region. The truth of this statement can be verified by having a brief look at the history of the world. Hitler, the cruel German leader during the Second World War, had been bullied because of his low social status and it had led him to an attempted suicide which was in hindsight, unfortunately not successful. There are many stories about his life and why he eventually became a cruel and merciless dictator, but nobody can deny the fact that the bullying might have had a considerable impact on him, ultimately making Hitler a revenge-seeking monster. Undoubtedly, bullying can have severe and lasting impacts on the bullied and can lead to permanent personality changes. Therefore, bullying is a major social issue in modern societies and needs to be dealt with by experts. June Arnette, associate director of the National School Safety Center, said that bullying is “an imbalance of power, sustained over a period of time”. By “an imbalance of power” she indicates that the bullies illegitimately hold and abuse power over the helpless victims who are unable to defend themselves. Moreover, this is not a one-off incident but repeatedly happens over a sustained period. The bully can derive this imbalance of power by having superior physical strength, access to embarrassing information, or higher popularity. Hence, there are different types of bullying, such as physical and verbal bullying. When teasing someone starts to have the specific intention of exercising control over a person, to humiliate and gain something by force, obtain a higher social status or popularity, or simply because of prejudice is called bullying.
In your years of education and “raising” children, I am positive that you have come across the “nature vs. nurture” debate and, as you are human, have most certainly faced peer pressure. When the nature vs. nurture debacle is combined with peer pressure, the result is the childhood bully who grows up to become America’s most prolific serial killer; while this may be an extreme case, similar situations arise on a day-to-day basis throughout America. As children, we are taught to not give in to the bully, to have the courage to say no; well, Mr. Trump, what if we teach our children to not pressure their peers? While it may seem impossible to stop bullying all together, every child is one caring adult away from individual and global success. If elementary schools spend more time on socializing our future generations than standardized testing, imagine the benefactors as they grow up--adults will learn how to tolerate each other and, above all, have respect for their differences. Picture the good this could do for our feuding country--to have opposites united and have the authority to be the global leader we claim to be.
It is essential that the public is informed on what bullying is and the different types of bullying. Bullying is the intent to pick on someone. It is usually done by someone you know and somewhere the perpetrator feels comfortable. An example would be school where the perpetrator has plenty friends around. Bullying is usually physical and can be detected. Bullying is an imbalance of power and the perpetrator wants to feel in control. Victims are less likely to fight back out of fear, but that only feeds into the bullying by allowing them to get away with it. When a victim finally does fight back it’s because they’ve have enough. While understanding what bullying is it's also important to know what bullying isn’t. Disagreeing with someone towards religion or having a different opinion is not bullying.
A very helpful source I found was “Overusing the bully label” by Susan Eva Porter. Her thesis states that schools overuse the word bully, and once society hears the word bully, everyone treats them differently. She says since the Columbine massacre in 1999 the media came to the conclusion that the two shooters had been bullied. Since that incident our nation has adopted a zero tolerance policy for bullying, when really the term bully is so broadly used now, that what used to be normal, yet painful aspects of childhood growth and development have fallen under the new
Bullies think that they rule the schools. Over 3.2 million students are bullied each year and people are just overlooking this situation. Seventeen percent of students report being bullied two to three times a month or more within a school semester. When bullying is going on in our schools one in four teachers see nothing wrong with bullying and don't intervene but four percent of the time. School is suppose to be a place where people feel comfortable but sixty-seven percent of students don't think that schools take bullying seriously. “Neither teachers nor other students were aware of the nature of the interview”(Side and Johnson 220). Schools should have an anti-bullying program so that the bullying in schools will decrease.
Have you ever heard of the saying, “Sticks and stone may break my bones, but words will never hurt me”? Your teacher may have told you this when you were being bullied during recess, or maybe you overheard this after your classmate was bullied because of his or her new haircut. Well, people have the freedom to speak freely; even if what is being said is hurtful. There are many laws out there that apply to bullying but don’t seem to end the problem, due to the fact that some say it interferes their freedom or believe it should be the parents’ responsibility to handle the situation. As a result, millions around the world get bullied whether it’s face to face or behind a screen on the internet. Therefore, there should be more appropriate laws that prevent bullying.
Even more devastating than that is that many youth who are the victims of bullying have taken there own lives, children as young as seven have committed suicide because of constant bullying. Politically anti-bullying policies have been adapted by different local legislation but no national laws have been passed that would hold people suspected of bullying to any jail time. Currently bullying is only held as a form of harassment in many state courts, this is only enforced through documented harassment not hearsay.
Feuds among individuals have been around forever. However, the term bully has been in existence since 1693. The term bully means “to affect by means of force or coercion” (Background on Bullying n.d.). Out of all the countries, the United States has the worst problem because bullying is legal in most states. Bullying was not viewed as a major issue until the early 1970’s. Although some states have anti-bullying laws, most do not address the major issues regarding the problem or any solutions as to how to stop bullying. “One in four students are bullied every month” (Background on Bullying n.d.), therefore forcing schools to have anti-bullying policies to make the students and parents feel safer overall. There are numerous different
Throughout the years and across generations, bullying has continued to be the problem that it is today. Despite growing concern towards bullying, it has commonly been seen as an issue that one must face on his or her own. An experience that toughens children to help prepare them for the “real world” outside of school. Viewpoints may be based on political orientation: conservatives are more likely to believe that with the issue of bullying, responsibility lies in individuals, while liberals argue for society-based responsibility (Kim & Telleen, 2016). Either way may be misguided if blame is rested on the victims themselves rather than on the bullies, which is often found to be the case (Kim & Telleen, 2016).
Where do they get these people to control children at school? To behave like a bully as an adult can land you in jail with a lot of consequences. When you act like this as a child in school, some pathetic adult is going to ask you to "shake hands," " Hug each other" or something worse. Its so many situations where the administrators make the victim feel responsible for the bullying.They would punish the hurting person before the bu, hows that fair or fixing any problems? A bully should be removed and sent to a strict military-style academy (of course depending on the condition of the offender's mental state, etc.). America needs to wake up and realize that this politically correct system of raising children is like letting children raise themselves under ineffective supervision. These helpless children are typically caught between ignorant parents and milquetoast school staff who don't understand, don't pay attention, and don't make proper efforts to improve these situations. It's primal like some wildernesses were only the privileged pretty ones and the strong survive. These victimized children are becoming mentally damaged, and this takes exceptional treatment and understanding to correct. These kids need to feel human again, encouraged, included and loved. All they get is a limp pep talk, administrators peddling sorry answers. And a daily dose of tragic abuse. Does no one nurture these poor kids? They