Bullying
In life there is no perfect picture for a non-violent world, but then we turn to school, work forces and sadly enough, we as a community reach the point of having to find ways to prevent bullying. Bullying as we see is as a whole can create a foundation that certain people don’t want to particularly be involved with, such as school environments, workforces or even a neighborhood. This is a worldwide incident that is going on and people are getting hurt emotionally, physically and even spiritually as well through this bullying. If you have been worrying about this or concerning yourself with your own kids being bullied there are ways and solutions that can help prevent and possibly create boundaries’ from bullies. Bullies are
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This article has the opinion that “Bullying can threaten students’ physical and emotional safety at school can negatively impact their ability to learn”(stopbullying.gov). We first see as stated in this article “Prevention at School” that steps such as assess bullying in your school is a major key part. That means that in order to make sure that you are taking the right steps you must conduct assessments, interview certain kids you see a problem with and even have parents intervene with the situation.
Going off this article the next step that they suggest is engaging the parents and youth. This is such a key part of bullying not only do you want to see why the kid is bullying, but also get a feel for how he is getting raised by his elders. You not only see it through actions you can also see bullying through communication as well. Social media plays a huge part in bullying it can happen anywhere at anytime with a person writing, tagging or tweeting a picture and from there you have no control. Throughout reading this deeply thought out article they discuss other key two points that is building a safe environment and creating rules. Waking up every morning as a kid and about to go to school feeling safe is a big part of making sure that the school they attend is safe and most importantly is strict when it comes to policies and rules. Without having any kind of instruction and or rule bullying throughout schools will continue happening.
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According to “Stopbullying.gov”, bullying can threaten students physically, emotionally, and can negatively impact their ability to learn. The best way to address bullying is to stop it before it starts.
“Bullying can threaten students’ physical and emotional safety at school and can negatively impact their ability to learn. The best way to address bullying is to stop it before it starts”( Prevention at school). My critical literacy book is about bullying at school. Bullying happens at all age levels and can happen anywhere. For educators the least we can do is make school a safe bully free zone for the students.
Schools are the most well-known settings for bullying. This is the place where students learn and socialize for most of the day. A school is a place meant to feel safe, not afraid. However, studies have shown us this is not the case. More and more students are reluctant to come to school. Why? Their peers may criticize them and abuse of them both verbally and physically. Bullying is more serious than most think. Many people just think it’s a simple hoax that was taken too far but this simple joke can lead to indelible emotional and physical scar that could hunt students for life eventually lowering their self-esteems and even ruining their lives. Schools and teachers have failed tremendously at stopping this.
We have all heard of the saying “sticks and stones, may break my bones, but words will never hurt me”. This statement couldn’t be further from the truth today. Mankind has had a long history with violence with one clear goal in mind, and that is to obtain power and authority. There are many different types of violence, one of them is bullying. We live in a time where bullying at school is becoming more of an issue than ever before. Statistics show that the age group that bullying most affects kids is between 12-18 years old. In 2016 surveys have shown that 1 out of every 5 students has reported being bullied (National
One of every five students is bullied each year (Bullying Basics,2017). Knowing that the problem of bullying is a large possibility in their classrooms, administrators’ and teachers’ main goal must be to offer a safe classroom and a positive, supportive learning environment to their students. If they work together to reach this goal, bullying can be
Bullying does effect students’ physical and emotional safety, thus it has the ability to negatively impact their ability to learn. The fastest way to control bullying is to prevent the bullying. There are various options that a school/educator can chose from to make the school/class safer while prevent bullying or stopping it immediately. Below are three programs that an educator or a principal can look at when researching anti-bullying programs.
Bullying is a very sensitive subject especially when trying to explain to a younger child. Social Skills Training would be an effective way to manage a student who was bullying another student. Depending on what grade and how old is the child I would attempt to find out what triggers him or her to bully and who are they bullying someone bigger, smaller, smarter? Bullying usually happens because someone brought them pain and made them upset, so they want to make the victim upset as well. The bully could be having a hard time at home and brings it to school; the bully might have been bullied before and wants someone to feel their pain or bullying can also be his or her way of expressing feeling because the individual sees it happen at home. I
The best way to do something about bullying is to stop it before it starts. In order for bullying to be prevented, educators and parents should understand the depth of the bullying in the schools around the country. Educators and parents need to be aware of the common appearances of bullies and victims, they also need to be familiar with the most active bully-prevention methods now in use. Bullying can threaten students emotional and physical safety at school and can influence their ability to learn. There are a number of things not only school staff can do but also other students and to make schools safer and prevent bullying. Assess school prevention and intervention efforts around student behavior, including substance use and violence.
Bullying can be stopped ,we can stop it by addressing the bully about the situation and giving them a punishment. Kids shouldn't have to put up with this. The bully is careful not to get caught around adults because they will get in trouble so if a kid is carefully watched the bullying might not happen as often .
Many people do not realize how serious bullying has become. If you look at statistics suicides due to bullying have increased over just a few short years. This has become a very big problem for not only the victim but the bully as well as it affect both of them. School bullying is mentally destructive to not only the victims, but bullies because of the harmful words, harassment, and physical violence involved as well as the consequences for the bully.
Bullying is a big issue in the world these days. It is our job as teachers to address this issue in our classroom and teach children that bullying is not ok.
Bullying is a term for when one student tries to hurt or intimidate another and usually involves a power imbalance. Bullying not only has long lasting effects on self-esteem, with many victims self-esteem being severely damaged, but can also make life unbearable for the victims. There are many different types of bullying such as cyberbullying, which involves bullying through electronics such as cell phones. Other types of bullying include physical, verbal and social. Females and males are also likely to experience different types of bullying, with females predominantly being bullied on the internet or through words, while with males bullying is much more physical. Bullying is a very big problem in schools, as up to 22% of students say they experience some type of bullying. Although I believe that bullying should be handled on both fronts, it is important that bullying is addressed by schools. Schools with a zero tolerance policy with bullying would help to eliminate it, as they are able to put harsh punishments on aggressors that help to deter that type of behavior.
At the anti bullying event I learned that bullying is “an imbalance of power” meaning that one person has the upper hand and they can take advantage of the control they have to use it in malicious ways. I also learned about the different types of bullying such as verbal, social, and physical. Bullying is found in school but it can follow students outside of it like on buses, neighborhoods and even the internet. It was also stated that bullying can have results that last forever on both the children that bully and the bullied. Since bullying has such a big impact there should be steps towards preventing it in schools.
About twenty-eight percent of student’s ages 12-18 reported being bullied at school during the school year according to the Indicators of School Crime and Safety report, by the Bureau of Justice statistics. Across thirty-nine states survey, 7.2 percent of students admit to not attending school because they do not feel safe. The importance of bullying can’t be undermined. Teachers and parents must understand the importance of looking and listening for signs and behaviors of bullying. This will help tackle the issue before it gets serious and someone gets hurt.
Bullying has been around for as long as anyone can remember, but it is beginning to increase in schools. Over three million people are victims of bullying every year and thousands skip school to avoid the bully. Bullying leads to depression, suicidal attempts, and occasionally death. Today, there are several forms of bullying as you may already know. We have cyberbullying, emotional bullying, and physical bullying. Sadly, there is no way we could stop bullying completely, but we could prevent a great deal of bullying. We can prevent bullying by showing people the outcome of bullying someone, speaking up when you see it happening, disciplining the bully for their actions, and giving the ones being bullied confidence. Although several do not feel the same way about bullying, we must have an open mind about the issue. If you were the victim of bullying, how would you feel if no one was willing to help you?