Bullying In Schools

In the last two decades, there has been a surge of anti-bullying programs that have come out for elementary schools. It is important to inform our youth on exactly what bullying is, strategies for prevention and coping. Education about bullying became a main goal for elementary school in the last two decades due to the exponential rate of school shooting, suicides and cyber bullying. The question is whether or not these programs are effective in education and prevention This paper will discuss why bullying is such a concerning issue, the goals and promises of prevention programs and if these are effective or not.

The type of bullying that i am helping solve is direct bullying . Direct bullying is a physically harrising another student . "school based activities decreased bullying 25%" according to pacer.org . My program brings students together that have expirenced bullying . This group will give the victims an apportunity to talk about there problems and not just hold them in because it is very unhealthy to not to tell anything about tramitising  things like this. It will also give students an oppurturtunity to make new friends.My program will do things that will help with "things that come with bullying are depression, decrease in grades , and low self of steem"  according to stopbullying.gov .

In this week assignment I am going to describe an issue that I passionate about it. Bully is an issue that destroys a family specialist the kid involve in the situation. Those children can experience negative physical, school, and mental health issues. Kids who are bullied are more likely to experience. Depression and anxiety, increased feelings of sadness and loneliness, changes in sleep and eating patterns, and loss of interest in activities they used to enjoy. These issues may persist into adulthood. Three actions that I would take to address the issue with bullying at school and the challenges I might encounter taking the action to address each and achieve my goals.

When people think of bullying they think of the big guy picking on the little guy, but in most cases the victim is a bully themselves. Bullying will not go away all together, but determining if the situation is actually bullying or not, and standing up to the bully is a great start to decrease bullying in schools today. Drama sometimes is difficult to differ from bullying, and it is important to understand the difference. (1b: SV, and SV.) Bystanders need to become involved to start the end of bullying. Also, respect is needed to start to lessen bullying in schools today.

Even though schools face cost issues in education of staff and anti-bullying enforcement, bullying is a serious problem that is not being properly addressed. With the shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado, where on April 20, 1999 two students started a massacre where 12 students and one teacher were killed, and suicides in multiple places, it’s clear that bullying causes tragedies. All of the events, in some way, are related to bullying. In recent years, there has been more media coverage of incidences of bullying and its repercussions. There was a girl in Massachusetts named Phoebe Prince that after being bullied for months went home after school on January 14, 2010 and committed

This is no new thing, but in recent years bullying acts have become more violent and lethal. Bullying has also been considered a contributing factor in violent acts. Perpetrators in recent school shooting incidents described feelings of being persecuted, bullied, or threatened by their peers (“National Bullying Awareness Campaign” 2005).

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in bullying and providing prevention, intervention, and curriculum in the schools. It is crucial for schools to investigate their current school social culture and the climate of bullying in their building among the students along with essential involvement and buy in from parents and community members (Bradshaw 2015). We will now focus on the approach and importance of bullying from a Tier 1 intervention perspective.

School can be very harsh, to some it easier than others, for me it was extremely hard especially as a overweight, depressed and anxious person. Around the age of twelve years old I was an overweight, shy and tomboy, but not any tomboy, I went through a stage where I dressed in all black and baggy. My acne was horrible and I would try everything, it was all over my face and kids would point it out all the time. Not only that my acne was horrible, I had no confidence and while I was struggling to find products to fix my skin, as you could imagine I was an extremely easy target for bullying, nobody deserves to be bullied, but that doesn’t mean that they still won’t do it. I remember the fear of going to school, the name calling was enough to keep me from going anywhere, I would beg to my mother for I could stay home from school. To make matters worse for me, the school I was going to was consider to be ghetto compare to other schools, kids would call me names calling me fat, ugly, a man, and even call me mean for no reason, especially since I didn’t talk to anyone cause I was so shy . I wasn’t mean, but they made rumors that I would scream at anyone who would talk to me, that my mom didn’t love me and it sounds ridiculous now, but back then I felt broken and I was only in sixth grade, not even a teenager yet.

In any country, in any state, and in any city, there is one thing that occurs to link all these places together: bullying. Bullying is the use of force, threat, or pressure to abuse, scare, or aggressively control others. It has become a major problem in school, at the workplace, and even online. But what makes a bully? What is the real origin and source of bullying and can it be prevented? It is believed that there are many solutions that can prevent bullying in the future for kids and even adults. Most of these solutions occur in the adolescent years of the individual; however, two solutions stand out. The two most effective ways to prevent a child from being a potential bully are through teaching individuals to handle situations appropriately and giving these individuals good role models

Bullying during childhood is something everyone has witnessed or been a victim of a bully. Bullying is witnessed through mainstream media, social media, on television, in movies, and even in literature. Bullying is, according to Greene (2013), “the repeated, intentional aggression in a relationship, where there is an imbalance of power”. Also described as, “The methodical abuse of power characterized by repeated psychological and physical aggression with the intention to cause distress to another person (Scott, Dale, Russell, &Wolke, 2016). Unfortunately, bullying is an antiquated action with no official start date; however, bullying was not made a piece of systematic research, until the early 1970s (Olweus & Limber, 2010).

Schools should start addressing the issue of bullying in school because the bullying is happening on school grounds therefore it is the school’s responsibility to address this issue, the parents most times do not do anything to stop the bullying their kids are doing to others and the bullying going on has caused the victims that get depressed and not want to come to school and school is supposed to be a safe learning environment.

Bullying is a problem that affects a lot of children from kindergarten through high school. Boyd states, “Although scholars have examined different aspects of youth-related meanness and cruelty over the past four decades, there is no universal definition of bullying”. However according to some research bullying is defined as a unwanted, aggressive behavior with school aged children that involves a real imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, cyberbullying, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose”. (“What is Bullying,” n.d.).

We have learned that ignoring bullying has immediate consequences on student academic and social achievement as well as long-term impacts on the psycho-social development of the bullies, victims, and bystanders in our schools.  Research and practice have demonstrated that evidence-based school-wide systematic bullying prevention/intervention programs are an effective method of dealing with the problems of bullying and peer harassment in schools.  There are positive impacts on safety and security within the school buildings, the morale of teachers and students and improved academic and social learning.  Although implementing Bullying Prevention/Interventions programs require a commitment of time, resources, and a willingness to change attitudes and to learn new skills, continuing to ignore bullying is more costly than addressing it in terms of resources spent, lowered achievement, and poorer social outcomes for our youth.

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.

It is only in the recent years that attention has turned toward the widespread problem of bullying, especially in schools, and that bullying is identified as a serious problem that merits intervention and research (Coy). Therefore, relatively little effort has been made to overcome or address the problem, which still remains a widespread social vice. This paper purports to illustrate how, despite efforts made to rectify the situation, bullying still remains rampant, and is getting worse.