Alex Hirbal went to school on Wednesday morning with two large knives this current event happened in Murrysville, Pennsylvania. A school stabbing by a boy named Alex who is sixteen year old came into school with two large knives to Franklin Regional Senior high school. He injured twenty students in his rampage. He also injured one teacher in the process. Four boys had to be in the intensive care unit. Alex’s attorney said, “That he was bullied in school”, but the FBI official dismiss the bullying motive. “http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/09/justice/alex-hribal-profile/index.html”.Alex’s attorney thought that a lot of issues that happened in Alex’s life led up to what happened at this school. Alex is in tenth grade and “He will be charged with four counts of attempted homicide and twenty counts of aggravated assault in connection with Wednesday's attack at Franklin Regional Senior high school.”( http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/09/justice/alex-hribal-profile/index.html” Students at Franklin Regional Senior High school thought Alex was a loner, and this current event connects to the social learning theory because of Alex’s behavior.
The Social Learning theory is by observing others and then to imitating them by learning through social behavior. People will asks their peers if being aggress is okay, and if the social norm accepts that as being an normal behavior then people will be aggress with one and other “Thus if a respected person or institution endorse aggression”.
In April, 2014, over twenty people were injured at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania. A 16-year-old student, Alex Hribal was in possession of kitchen knives that he used to stab innocent students and the security guard at the school. He was described as a boy that stayed to himself a lot but, he was never bullied. They could not figure out a possible motive that he could have had to want to stab so many people in the school. Sam King, the assistant principal of Franklin Regional High School tackled him to put a stop to his rampage and Hribal was charged as an adult.
As more and more children go to school, the rates of bullying go up as time goes by. there are many times at which students suffer all the bullying that occurs within their lives. As more schools become aware of the magnitude of the bullying occurring right under their noses, there are rules created to aid the victim. There are various types of bullying and these are created to do one thing, instill superiority among the “stronger” and place a feeling of inferiority. Bullies are the ones who are detrimental to a child’s development.
Bullying is unwanted behavior that causes a child to feel isolated and alone. In order for an act to be considered bullying the act has to be, or be able to be repeated multiple times. Bullying can be done verbally by teasing, name-calling, taunting or inappropriate sexual comments directed at someone to purposefully upset them. Bullying can be done socially by isolating students on purpose, telling other students not to play with them, spreading rumors about students or attempting to embarrass them in public. Bullying can also be done physically by hitting, kicking, spitting, tripping, breaking property or making rude gestures. Most bullying is done during unstructured times such as recess, lunch, in the hallways, before school or after school. There is typically less adult supervision during those times. All of these things are meant to bring down the self-esteem of others. Bullying can have very serious effects on both students being bullied as well as the bully themselves.
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
On April 9, 2014, a violent outburst was experienced by students during their day at school. The catastrophe occurred in, Murrysville, Pennsylvania, a city close to Pittsburgh. The accused perpetrator of this heinous act is sixteen year old Alex Hribal. The stabbing spree took place at a local high school in Murrysville, Franklin Regional Senior High School, where Hribal is a sophomore. The carnage began just before the start of classes when Hribal entered the school hallway with two kitchen knives hidden from sight. The suspect began his rampage by stabbing students in the hallway and then moving from class to class. A security guard alerted police of the slaughter at 7:13 am, expressing knowledge and the gravity of the violent episode.
Most kids say that they don’t see bullying around school. In just Minnesota alone there is talk about bullying and how to prevent it. Sen. Franken states, “Nine out of 10 LGBT kids are harassed or bullied in school. One-third report having skipped school in the last month because they felt unsafe” (Shah 14). Kids should not feel unsafe to go to school. School is supposed to be a safe place to go and if someone needs help there are supposed to be people there to guide them. Franken adds, “But the sad fact is that our federal laws are failing” (Shah 14). Laws have been made to try to stop bullying, but bullying continues to exist. This shows how out of control bullying is becoming.
Bullying and in its many various ways effects everyone in a lot of ways. A lot of the people are being humiliated and hurt. Victims of bullying commit suicide because people that are being bullied think bullying will not stop. Bullying is a big problem in many countries, it is a problem that everyone can experience at anytime and anywhere. Bullying can be the number one problem everyone experiences in daily basis.
Bullying in Australian primary schools has become an epidemic, having a negative effect on children’s learning and development (Lodge, 2014). Therefore, it is crucial that schools and teachers are aware, understand and educated on how bullying can impact children’s learning and development; to be able to effectively implement policies, respond, educate and eliminate bullying in the school environment.
Bullying is arguably one of the most common vices in our contemporary society that affects individuals across different settings in the society. Most people associate bullying with schools and teenagers, but the practice cuts across almost all institutions in the modern-day American society. People get bullied at workplaces and even in public institutions when seeking for public services. Bullying entails the use of perceived superior power by an individual to intimidate, threaten, or harm another person (Peguero, 2012). Many children and even employees fall victim to bullying and often suffer a lot of psychological effects that are characterized by fear, hatred, depression, and deeply-rooted anger. The advancements in technology, especially the social media platforms, have introduced new dimensions to bullying and has even made it harder for the government and the society to address this issue. Many sociologists observe that bullying is an inbred issue that is deeply rooted in the society. It is a practice that is perpetrated by the society through the existing cultures, systems, institutions, traditions, and norms that encourage alienation and stereotyping that are commonly associated with bullying. Bullying is often analyzed from the structural functionalist perspective of sociology. Prominent sociologists like Talcott Parsons pointed out that the structural functionalist perspective creates a relationship between the existing social structures in the society and the
Bullying has once been claimed as innocent, or harmless. But, in fact, it is anything but that. Bullying is when someone of power abuses another person or groups either physically or emotionally. There are four different kinds of bullying: physical bullying, emotional bullying, cyber bullying, and relational bullying. Being bullied can result in many different internalizing symptoms. The most common are underdeveloped social skills, anxiety, depression, or eating disorders. These disorders or psychological effects can last a lifetime. There are many studies that show the different results of how children,
Would you rather have a black eye or a broken heart? Bullying can be started by anyone, but most importantly, it can even happen to anyone. It affects many people, even in today's society. For example, in politics, Donald Trump, The President of The United States, puts out a variety of tweets that some people take offense to. Bullying hurts the victim, and some even lose their lives as a result of bullying. Cyber-bullying is worse than physical bullying, because it is publicly posted out on the internet, it stays with the victim consistently, and the bullies are a lot harsher because they have the option to be anonymous.
Empowering students to reach their full potential physically, intellectually and socially are essential to an individual’s wellbeing. The school’s milieu needs to be a safe and respected space for this potential to reach its peak. A factor that contrasts with this ideology for schools and communities to be a safe place for students to gain a deep understanding of this world is the engagement in bullying practiced by students and even staff members. Preventing behaviours associated with bullying is very important due to the detrimental effects it has on students learning, social and emotional wellbeing and mental health status and therefore school, state and national policy has been enforced to clearly communicate that bullying is not tolerated. Although schools require to provide policy for students to have a safe learning environment, the autonomy and inconsistency of policies within schools has generated a lack coverage in important areas such as the lack of a specific expectation,
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
Social learning theory, in its simplest form, can be described as learning through observation. We learn through watching the interaction between others: How Mom responds to Dad, other women, her parents, etc. Observing social interaction teaches us the ‘correct’ behavior for our culture, our society. Social Learning Theory, as outlined in our textbook, holds that children imitate their parents’ social behavior. If a child is exposed to violence in the home, they are much more likely to repeat the observed behavior in their own relationships. (Intimate Relationships, Marriages & Families.) Albert Bandura believed that aggression was a socially learned behavior. He stated that children learn aggressive behaviors by watching those violent behaviors in family, friends, neighbors, and the media (TV, video games, etc.) He said that,” Those who figure prominently in children's lives serve as indispensable sources of
Explain how aggression is learned according to the Social Learning Theory proposed by Bandura & Todo, 2003).