Essay on Bullying in School

Bullying is such a difficult topic to grab a hold of. Children may experience bullying and not say it to their parents. Parents may suspect something wrong with their children but don’t know how to pro[per address the issue. I was bullied a lot. I remember being smashed against a locker in 7th grade. My brother was bullied during this middle school and high school years. Yet, my brother learned martial arts as a way to defense. However, I was more of an resorted in listening to music and keep all my emotions to myself. I learned over the years the power of speaking out and having a great support system.

There is a good chance your child is not going to come to you and say “I’m being bulled at school.” You have to watch for signs, like not wanting to go to school for whatever reason. You have to listen to what your child is saying, and not assume or jump to conclusions. As long as your child feels safe and trust that you they will be more open to answering questions and giving you information to help you solve the problem.

Although, if the children of this generation are taught the right way, not to bully, their future children will not have that characteristic passed down to them when they are enrolled in school.  Parents might argue that their children do not bully, that the other child, or children, is just trying to make their child look bad.  In this case, the parents, if it is an outside of school issue, should sit with however many children are involved in the bullying and talk with them to get to the bottom of the issue.

There is no reason to bully. You should settle problems in a civil way. We should all come together and try to make an impact on the bullies. One way to help is if we see something report it .We can also have arranged assemblies in school or outside of school. As a group make a website for anti-bullying. Together, as a group we can make a difference if we stand together nothing is impossible

Soon, both parents came. When the boy's father saw his child, he rushed over to his boy and saying something bad to me. As same as my teacher, she also began to criticize me. She repeated what she had just said to me in front of the boy’s father. She might want to show the father that she was worthy of his “red packet”. My mother also became angry, and she began to complain why I had caused her trouble again. At that time, I felt dizzy and wanted to suicide. I cried out of fear, but no one comforted me. Everyone was looking at the boy, whether he was good. "Why are you crying?” When I was crying, the boy's father said to me, "You might let my son into a concussion! If my son has some problem, I won not let you go!” I only knew that concussion

In order to target the problems starting at this tender age there is need for adult intervention. It is first and foremost the part of the parents to raise their children in a loving, nurturing environment. It is the parents? job to assure their child that it is not his fault for being picked on, and that there is nothing wrong with him, but that it is a problem for the bully. In order to stop this parents should teach their child to first ignore what the bully is saying and he might give up. If not then parents can help their kids figure out the best way to verbally confront the bully. In some instances children have used humor when facing a bully, and it has actually worked. One child got the bully to laugh so much that they actually became friends (Fried & Fried, 2006). Parents could actually confront the bully themselves, or the bully?s parents, both of which may lead to a more dangerous situation. This is not advised unless completely necessary, or unless the parents know each other well. Of course above all, being a role model to children will teach them better than anything parents can try to say. Educators and psychologists both think that the breakdown of traditional family structure of a two parent home has a great deal to do with children becoming violent (Unger, 2006).

Bullying is bound to happen anywhere at any time but occurs mostly within school limits. Kathleen Winkler defines bulling in her book, Bullying, as “...any kind of ongoing physical or verbal mistreatment, done with the intent to harm, where there is an imbalance of power between bully and victim” (Winkler 14). Bullying has an extremely important impact on one’s everyday life and can affect their life negatively getting to the point where they can no longer take the blow. To try and prevent bullying from taking place in schools, one needs to know how bullying effects a person, what the role of each person involved in the situation is, and have knowledge of specific methods on how to prevent it. Bullying in schools is a serious problem and a handful of school do their part to prevent it; others, not as much, which means there is room for improvements.

There are many roles that individuals can play when it comes to bullying. Some participate in bullying others. Others are the victims of bullying, and sometimes they might be both, bullied and bullies. Bullies search for any reasons to pick on or ridicule their victims which put them in a position of power. Victims can take control, but this will require adult intervention. When victims are made to feel loved, respected and

Children can learn from friends who bully. Some aggressive children who take on high status roles may use bullying as a way to enhance their social power and protect their prestige with peers. Some children with low social status may use bullying as a way to deflect taunting and aggression that is directed towards them, or to enhance their social position with higher status

There are multiple ways to respond to Bullying. The best thing to do in a bullying situation is to simply walk away. Don’t give in to what the bully is saying to you. Tell the bully stop but try to maintain yourself from getting into a fight. This could lead to disciplinary actions from your school. After the Incident, the best thing to do is to tell a friend or school official. Get the word out to friends or classmates so they can help you. Don’t let this incident get to your head and overcome you. If you report it to an adult, they will more than likely help you with your bullying

Specific plan of action: If you are a parent be aware of changes in your child behavior. In both sides of the story, the child tends to change. If he is a bully, he will be angry, aggressive, he will be disrespectful at home and most likely at school. In the other hand, if he is the bullied, he will be fearful, will cry constantly, he won’t be too social, etc.

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.

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.

If your child is being a bully at school you need to listen to them when they are talking (education.com 2009). More than likely they are going to be giving some kind of clues to what is going on in their life outside of school. If they aren’t talking to you about school that is even more reason to be concerned.

 Typically, bullying is thought of as aggressive behavior on the part of one child,