Bullying: Time to take a stand When I was in junior high there were many things that were positive and good. However, there were problems that often went unnoticed and were handled the wrong way. Bullying has been a problem in the school system for many years. The school districts around the nation seem to have different ways of handling bullies. Some, take the bully to the office and talk to him or her about the offense, some even have harsh consequences such as expulsion. Bullying has many negative effects that hurt the victim not just for the moment, but potentially for the rest of their life. It can shut down that person down socially and emotionally, and is hard to recover from. It makes the victim not want to attend school for fear of …show more content…
Setting up very specific criteria that can easily be understood by all students, teachers and administrators to better solidify what bullies are and how to inform immediate appropriate action creates a zero-tolerance school. By having rules that are strictly enforced, it makes it easier for the students to know exactly what to expect. My high school did a good job of providing clear rules and standards of what was to be expected at the school. When the rules were not followed, action was taken quickly. Each individual case is unique but, having rules and punishment in place makes it easier to stomp out bullying.
Increased Watch of Students Bullying often occurs when a student is alone or picked out of a group. Encouraging teachers, monitors or parents to be out in the hallways before or after class, during breaks and lunch and after school will lower the risk of bullying at school. When I was in junior high, the altercation that ended with me being bullied was largely because of the lack of teachers out in the halls after class ended. Better ongoing focus leads to less bullying, safer school environments and more student confidence in the school system.
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Bullying has been recognized as a risk factor in improvement and personal growth of children and adulthood. It is a form of hostile conduct in which an individual engages to cause another individual harm or distress (Kirves, & Sajaniemi, 2012).. Therefore, it is vital to be able to detect signs of bullying in order to stop further consequences, such as self-harm, and suicide. Children who have experienced bullying become hopeless, anxious, have low self-efficacy, and have recurrent negative thoughts (Kirves, & Sajaniemi, 2012). Research in bullying has also concluded that children who bully other children are more prone to become anti-social and engage in criminal activity (Kirves, & Sajaniemi, 2012).
Over the years bullying has become a problem. It affects kids to even adults. Bullying is a problem here a Buhach and the students should be aware of how to handle a bully. Don’t think that it can’t happen to you because bullying can happen to everyone regardless of your age.
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.
To foster attitudes against bullying, in addition to promoting knowledge and awareness of bullying, teachers need to take reports of any bullying incident seriously and intervene consistently according to school rules instead of ignoring or minimizing bullying behavior.
My name is Michael Nadasi From Irvington, New York Middle School. Recently, I worked on a project in ELA to make a Public Service Announcement about having the confidence to be yourself. The reality is people are not being themselves in Middle Schools. “One out of every four students (22%) report being bullied during the school year. (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2015)” So we are asking you get this out on the web! I know that this is happening in my school, is some of the most hurtful things someone could do to you. “The reasons for being bullied reported most often by students were looks (55%), body shape (37%), and race (16%). (Davis and Nixon, 2010)”
Ok. let's start off like this I’m michael garza a student at this school and i'm writing this to try and “help” you “stop” bullying in our school. before you start all the crap of we’re kids you can’t stop it. i'm sorry but sir. you are wrong i came from a school that was almost bully free and let me tell you that this school is not the nice “house you’d like to call it. ok first i'll talk about the bus’s then i'll go to the halls then the lunchroom finally i'll “try” to give you as much insight is ii canon each one.
Bullying is a serious issue between students and sometimes teachers. Students bully other students due to various things, whether they are jealous, angry, or are treated the same way at home. Also, the environment at school with cliques and groups can pave a way to someone easily being excluded and treated different. A school with freedom and over established opportunities can pave a way for various cliques to form allowing more students to be excluded and treated differently by one or more of their peers. Rules implemented by schools can decrease the statistics of victims if the staff and administration were to be strict and give consequences to the students who disregard them, this can have an effect on victims as well. Schools can prevent
Bullying is often unnoticed and unacknowledged by adults, which causing school officials to limited understanding and skills on how to address behaviors (Branes, Cross, Lester, Hearn, Epstein, & Monks, 2012). Bulling prevention programs will help inform teachers, schools, and parents on how to notice students are bullies or bring bullied. A bully behavior can negatively affect the person that they are targeting. Schools must inforce consequences for students are labeled as bullies, and teachers will need to intervene when the behavior is displayed. Therefore, effective school policies and strategies are important for teacher and staff members to understand to prevent and reduce bullying (Branes, Cross, Lester, Hearn, Epstein, & Monks, 2012).
" We the people of America is every citizen. Not just the people living in America. Recently we had to deal with this problem. This wasn’t the first and won’t be the last. Strava a workout app used by billions of people. While this helped cities to create running and biking lanes. Some people who use this app are active military men and women. These heat maps just released some top secret information about bases in restricted areas. Although this may have started as an innocent act. But when people release this data it is dangerous for our fellow members. Along with this Facebook for runners is our real problem with Social Media. The government with the maturity should prohibit what is always necessarily available because of the influence to be mean and demeaning and recently a threat to the secret military bases.
Our Middle School has seen an increase in the number of teachers and parents who have reported bullying incidents in the last quarter. Our police force hall monitors have helped, but they cannot be everywhere at the same time.
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.
Approximately about 3.2 million children and teens are being victimized by bullies each year. Many of these adolescent children have different reactions to being bullied. What is bullying? What are the risk factors of bullying? There are many mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety, social anxiety, and even suicide. There are many warning signs you could watch out for in minorities as said in these articles by scholars, that are being bullied.
Bullying is a common problem in our society that will soon take over the world. Many students are being bullied at school because of their race, religion, looks, intelligence, creativity, and much more that we don’t even know about. According to an online research, “America is suffering from a bullying epidemic. Bullies appear everywhere, from playgrounds to hallways, in public restaurants and even online” (Bullying Statistics). Because of bullying, students don’t get enough time on the things that they do or try to focus on. “Over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year. Approximately 160,000 teens skip school every day because of bullying” (I Beat Bullying). Many students are faced with this problem at school because they are the good students, which means they get good grades, and they are good at what they do. There are so many examples to include, but because of these two reasons that I included above, most students get bullied more than ever. Students are more likely to get bullied from others at school because of being a good, intelligent student. When you see students working hard, that means they try their best and work with passion when others just want to finish and go. Students get bullied at school all the time for different reasons. Bullying is a common problem in junior high that affects many students in schools to learn or to become a better person in life.
I stood up and I watched the people eyes filled with tears and the environment impregnated with cry of mothers, fathers, cousins and relatives while I looked in awe and shamed, this was the same guy that tried to start a conversation with me three weeks ago that I ignored because other people labeled him a wanker and a weirdo. I had nothing against him after all its not a crime to be selective in choosing one’s friends so why should I neglect that moral logic and principle and moreover talking to him will lead to a drop in my reputation of being the coolest kid in high school. But standing close to the ground where is body is about to be laid, I realized that a crime is not punishable only when an individual commits it
Throughout and right after going through elementary school, middle school, and high school yours truly had thought that under no circumstances was I bullied in school. Nevertheless, observing back at it now I can probably point out a few times in elementary and middle school that were without doubt attempts at bully me. We will discuss how bullying in schools lead to lower academic achievements and the promise it shows. We will be discussing which ways do schools handle bullying.