Bullying and School Violence
The article title states exactly what the article talks about, the many different cases of bullying and violence in schools. The title tells you exactly what to expect from the abstract but does not give away any information on what it includes. The author did a good job deciding on the title because although it is simple, it grabs your attention, it certainly did mine. Bullying is a very common happening among young children so the title having the word bully in it, draws your attention. It could have been a little more creative but I do like the title and feel that it is both effective and appropriate. The purpose of the study is evident and can clearly and easily be derived from the title of the
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Pennington, however, feels that children just need someone to talk to about being bullied and that the bullies are just misunderstood and are probably abused themselves and duplicate what they know. She writes very factually and gets straight to the point of what she is talking about and is rather effective at doing so. Pennington is a savvy researcher. She used some of her own research as well as the research of others who have studied the topic. Her methods are appropriate and they do offer some explanation for the problem. By her using the Columbine incident, she manages to paint a very vivid picture of in-school violence. The author uses other incidents to paint more everyday pictures and does a very good job of doing that as well. She describes herself attending conventions, and other types of sessions as well as speaking with known bullies and victims. She then analyzes all of her material and breaks it down into understandable information for the reader. The author does not give any results on what happened because it is an ongoing process. She did however, manage to give plans on what she and her colleagues plan to do in the future to attempt to put a stop to all the bullying that goes on. She plans on having more conventions and putting a plan into motion to get teachers and counselors better training on how to pick up on and handle bullying situations. She also explains her
In the introduction, Emdin includes a tragedy that occurred to a victim of bullying; “...the death of Jamey Rodemeyer, a teenager from Buffalo, NY who committed suicide after being bullied by classmates, the nation has once again become re-awakened to the fact that this issue, which flooded the media a year ago with the death of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi, is not going away anytime soon” (Emdin). By including this in his article, Emdin captures the audience’s attention by showing just how big of a problem bullying is. Children are taking their own lives because they can’t handle the bullying. This inclusion is a good transition into the rest of Emdin’s article. The basis is to get the audience's attention and cause them to make a change to the problem at
Bullying is very common in most schools in the United States Around three million United States students miss class every month just because of bullying. When Alex Libby shared his story he gave a voice to millions of children who suffer from bullying, because he shared his story it changed the way most people think of the effects of bullying. An example of bullying is there was a girl named Kelby Johnson who was mocked by teachers and students because she was a lesbian, she had to stop playing basketball because her ignorant teammates didn’t want to be near her. Alex Libby is one of the 13 million school children in the United States that is being bullied. Alex’s mom said “ Kid’s back in the day, could go home and be safe you can’t do that a lot now, now you can get bullied online.”
Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among people of all ages, but mostly school-age children. Society has been aware of bullying since around 1693, but it was not viewed as a real problem until the 1970s. “While overall incidents of school violence, such as assault and theft, have declined in the last decade, bullying is on the rise.” (qtd in Tyre) The percentage of middle and high school students that have been victimized by bullying went up from 14 percent in 2001 to 32 percent in 2009. (Tyre)
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
While one person considers something an act of bullying; others may not. Teachers need to incorporate ways to teach what bullying is and is not. Erica Upton-Wurst, a local high school teacher of fifteen years, says that the sad truth about bullying is that it is inevitable. Her viewpoint, along with many other educators, is that bullying has gone to the extreme, and students will consider almost anything to be bullying. She suggests that it is important to educate students on what is considered bullying. Kristie Fingerson, a local elementary school teacher of fourteen years, suggests something similar to Upton-Wurst. She advocates that teachers need to be diligent in setting expectations and consequences. Current, and future teachers, need to let students know right away what is and is not tolerated. Bullying is mentioned in handbooks, but after the first week of school handbooks are hardly used. Teachers should bring up handbook guidelines throughout the year.
I advised her that she needs to confront bullies and not be perplexed. The following day in class the new young lady came up to me and embraced me truly tight and long and began to express her appreciation toward me for being an incredible individual and empowering her and that I transformed her life. The new young lady has been my closest companion from that day forward which from today is just about nine years. Understudies who witness harassing might likewise be influenced. They might feel regretful for not helping, or dreadful that they will be the following target. Then again they might be drawn into the tormenting themselves and feel terrible about it a short time later. The majority of this might bit by bit change the gathering or classroom mentalities and standards in a harsher, less sympathetic direction. Bullying is a difficult issue that will affect the school experience of all youngsters included. This is the reason it must be considered important and successful measures to forestall it must be placed set
Workplace bullying is a widespread issue in which people need to be educated on in order to put an end to it. Its causes are complex and multi-faceted and yet preventable. Workplace bullying puts unnecessary strain on the employees It is the employer and organizations responsibility to provide a bully free environment for their employees. Employees should have the right to feel safe in their work environment and be free from workplace bullying. Employers need to be held accountable and have a plan in place to protect the employees from this type of violence. Unfortunately that is not always the case, in some instances the employer is the one doing the bullying. Workplace bullying carries many definitions in which will be
This is very true and it is disturbing to know the emotional pain and suffering that school-aged children experience when they are victims of bullying. It also goes on to discuss how schools need guidance on programs to implement and strategies for integrating their bullying prevention work with other school improvement efforts within the school. This supports my beliefs in seeing the importance for schools to have some form of mandatory program or other forms of efforts in helping to support those who are victims of bullying. Not only do I believe that victims of bullying need support efforts, but I also believe it is necessary to implement a program for those who are bullies as well. Implementing a program as well as strategies for bullies could help in discovering their reasons for their behavioral-related
Many kids all around the world are abused by their parents, peers or even by complete strangers. One of these types of abuse is bullying. At a first glance, we might think that it is an older kid beating/teasing a younger classmate however; bullying consists of much more than this. The basic definition of bullying is when your behavior hurts or harms another person physically or emotionally. There are many different types of bullying, which may lead to a victim becoming violent later on. There is teasing and name calling, there is also picking and shoving the kid. However, the most extreme one would be beating up the child, hurting them physically and mainly, emotionally.
In your response (2016) you articulated a rather powerful statement, one that I feel provides that overarching exclamation point that speaks much to the reality of our work, “Bullying is something that I do not believe will ever disappear altogether.” One of the aspects I find difficult with being called to magical realm of Social Work is the bold reality that despite my altruistic ideals, life will happen. It is the one thing that I cannot change, even if at times I have expended all of my efforts to do so. Consequently, though I advocate much for cultivating an anti-bully mindset within formal education and in our children, we too, as parents, must provide our children with a skillset (emotional and operational) on how to appropriately respond to bullying. This is one aspect you never hear much of.
The Effects of Bullying on a Child Every day in our schools, children are threatened, teased, taunted, and tormented by bullies. At any given time, about 25 percent of U.S. students are the victims of bullies and about 20 percent are engaged in bullying behavior (Education World, 2000). The National Association of School Psychologists estimates that 160,000 children stay home from school every day because they are afraid of being bullied (Education World, 2000). Bullying is characterized by three criteria(NCPTB, 2003): It is aggressive behavior or the intent to harm,
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.
Back in the past many have focused on drug and alcohol use in school students along with students carrying weapons to schools, and it seemed as if no one was recognizing the significance of school bullying. For victims of bullying, they go to school every day facing harassment, taunting, and humiliation. Kids today come home and kill themselves or never want to go back to school because of BULLYING. “Studies show that 25-35% of teens encountered some type of bullying in their lifetime (Nansel et al,).” Bullying is a form of violent behavior that happens not only in the schools but everywhere. Kids everywhere have been exposed to bullying in school for generations and ages . Although bullying has always been a factor the consequences for
On February 14th 1999, Silvia Braun, a policewoman from Bavaria/Germany did not appear in her office in Munich. Some of her colleagues found the 22-year-old woman later in her car on a service area on a highway she had shot herself with her own rifle. Braun, an ambitious and determined woman, had no money problems, she did not suffer from any mental illness and she was not in love with someone who did not return her feelings. What was it that had made life unbearable for her? She had been being bullied for almost one year. She felt being humiliated, intimidated and sexually molested by her superior. This case shows how disastrous and dangerous bullying in the workplace can be.
In “Overusing the Bully Label” (Los Angeles Times, March of 2013), author, school administrator, and clinical social worker Susan Eva Porter suggests that adults commonly define minor difficulties that children have with one another as “bullying”. Porter begins by stating two examples of bullying that went extreme once the parents got involved, then shares how the extreme situation made the parents seem like heroes/victims, even though they were the ones escalating the situation, and then insists that "We do have a problem, but it's not with our children. It's with us, the adults.”. Susan Porter is trying to get the point across that in order to fix the situation on hand with bullying we need to stop labeling the kids that were mean once or twice as “bullies” and the kids on the other side of that aggression as “victims”, because once they are labeled they will start to believe they can't change. Porter wrote this article to Los Angeles Times, and throughout the article she tries to relate to the audience with stories of past proof of parental influences intensifying the situation along with stating her expertise in the field of working with children. The article tries to prove her stance that the cause of bullying is started by the students, but is effected by the adults/parents in today’s society.