I. Context and Importance of the Problem School bullying has become a serious problem in the United States (Henry et al. 2013). According to National Center for Education Statistics (2013), in 2011, 28% of students in 6-12 grades reported being bullied at schools. In addition, Bradshaw, Sawyer and O’Brennan (2007) found that 70.6% students saw the occurrence of bullying in the previous month. Sylaj (2014) further mentioned that around 200 million students are being bullied at schools. In additional, with the development of technology, cyberbullying, which referred to as bullying someone else through the Internet or other digital devices, include cell phones, has taking place in children’s life (Henry et al. 2014). Litwiller and Brausch’ study (2013) suggested that 23% of youths said that they have been bullied digital techniques. Notably, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students are facing higher risks of bullying compared to their heterosexual peers (Goldberg, n.d.). Compared to their heterosexual peers, homosexual youths are more likely to have problems on emotional and behavioral, and report with significantly higher rates of depression and externalizing behaviors (Williams, Connolly, Pepler & Craig, 2005). Considering the huge amount of students who are suffering verbal and physical violation from others are a member of a family, the statistic indicated a relatively large number of families are living under the influences of school bullying.
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
The Bullying Policy has been introduced around the world which, according to the 2014 observations , rates of bullying vary across studies from 9% to 98%. An observation of 80 studies analyzing bullying involvement rates for both bullying others and being bullied for 12-18 year old students reported an estimate rate of 35% for traditional bullying involvement and 15% for cyberbullying involvement (Modecki, Minchin, Harbaugh, Guerra, & Runions, 2014). This means the Bullying Prevention Policy affects million of students nationwide due to the programs created. More specifically, females face a higher indication of bullying victimization than males do. To explain, high percentages of each gender are faced with the aggressive acts of violence, making it extremely hard to perform well in the school environment. Furthermore, as many as 93 percent of students hear derogatory words about sexual orientation at least once every day at school or in their community (violencepreventionworks). Negative name calling and harassment about sexual orientation can be disrespectful to all students. For an example, 3 out of 4 students who are bullied/harassed with such remarks are not identified as lesbian, gay,
In most cases 64% of students do not report being bullied and only 36 % of students report it. Moreover, having an adult intervene on behalf of the student being bullying has been effective in reducing the hostile behavior against the other student being bullied by more than half of the bullying situations by 57%. Programs against bullying have shown to decrease the percentage of children being bullied by up to 25%. Above all, students have reported to be bullied the most because of appearance by (55%), body shape by (37%), and race by (16%). Cyber bullying (online bullying) has become common among students and 19.6% of children become victims. From those children who are being cyber bullied 90% report being bullied in person as well. However, children who have a disability have a higher chance of being bullied two or three times more than children who are not disabled. Children who identify as LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) were also bullied because of what they identified themselves with in regards of their sexual orientation. For that reason, 81.9 students from the LGBTQ community were bullied. Overweight students were victims of bullying and 64% were reported. Lastly, being a victim of bullying elevates suicidal ideation by 2.4 attempts more, and 3.3 more times likely to prepare a plan and proceed to commit suicide. In conclusion, children need interventions such as positive reinforcement and cognitive therapy to overcome the effects of bullying (Pacer,
Bullying is all over the world. Each year there is over 3.2 million victims being bullied. Approximately 160,000 teens skip school every day because of bullying.17% of American students report being bullied 2 to 3 times a month in a year. To many within a school semester. Since 2002, fighting behaviour has increased, especially in grades six to eight. Boys are more likely to start bullying because of being bullied in their past. Girls are most likely to cyberbully. Nearly 43% of kids have been bullied online. According to Gale, cyberbullying is the use of the Internet, smartphones, or other electronic communication devices to spread harmful or embarrassing information about another person, such as talking about people, telling other people’s
Bullying in the United States has become epidemic, but some schools are resistant to instill anti-bullying programs, because they fear the program will be ineffective. The article, Creating An Anti-Bullying Culture In Secondary Schools: Characterists to Consider When Constructing Appropriate Anti-Bullying Programs, researchers Joseph R. Jones, and Sharon Murphy Augustine address the issue of bullying head on. Research indicates that students who are from a low socioeconomic background, students who are racially diverse, students who have a learning disability, and student’s sexual orientation has the largest effect on bullying rates in the United States (Jones &Augustine, pp. 74-76). In a recent survey, twenty five percent of students reported that they are bullied on a daily basis and that cyber bullying is at an all time high (Jones &Augustine, p. 74). Due to the increased rates of bullying, there is an increase on teen suicide and school shootings. (Jones
Bullying can be found almost everywhere; in homes, on the internet, and especially in schools. Students of lesser abilities or non-conformists can essentially be main targets; however, anyone is vulnerable to a bully’s wrath. Although the common lunch thief threat has been the general association with the word bully, that term has unfortunately evolved and become apart of the violent side of our culture today. All too often students feel the need to “disappear” or escape leading to destructive decisions such as suicide, substance abuse, or depression (Kowalski 6). Today the causes of bullying are involved with social differences such as sexual orientation, physical appearance, ethnicity, or insecurities. For the past few years bullying has gradually increased in the US, and of course worldwide because of the internet’s growing diverse locations and servers. Statistics show that “A total of 29.9% of the sample reported moderate or frequent involvement in bullying, as a bully (13.3%), one who was bullied (10.6%), or both (6.3%)” (NIH Public Access). Forms of bullying include through a computer screen also known as cyberbullying and through physical confrontation leading students to experience symptoms of depression which could also provoke deeper personal issues. Cyberbullying has come across society through social media sites as well as personal opinion. Children are now breaking the norm of traditional confrontation and dunking heads in toilets
Even before my child went to preschool I was concerned about issues surrounding bullying. My husband and I are gay and we had concerns around how our daughter might be affected by having same-sex parents. On top of that, we are a multiracial family; I am Filipino, my husband is white, and our daughter is a dark-skinned African-American. Adoption adds another layer to the politics of our family identity. When we walk onto a school campus we are not the heterosexist norm and are a very visible and different kind of family. Although we see ourselves exactly like any other family – trying to make it to school on time, making sure our daughter takes on her responsibility to get her homework folder into her backpack, organizing play dates, keeping
The current definition of a “bully,” is listed as “a blustering browbeating person; especially: one habitually cruel to others who are weaker,” (Merriam-Webster, n.d.). Over the past 15 years, the term “bullying” has changed from a word that describes what was once perceived as children and teenagers making and playing harmless jokes and pranks on each other, to a word that describes the relentless harassment and sometimes violence that individuals are subjected to at various life stages. Despite the fact that bullying can affect and involve more than just students, it is most prevalent among the school age population. Unfortunately, this also means that there are deep rooted ties to violence and suicide amongst youth in America. There are many contributors to such behavior, some of which have only yet to be explored as we are at the forefront of what is considered to be the digital age. However, bullying is not a new age idea exclusive to the 21st century.
In the United States, 23% of teens, in a study, reported being targeted by cyberbullying (Pappas). Once someone is singled out by a bully, different peers will know that the person is a target, and they will join in the bullying against that particular child. The number of adolescents being directly affected by cyberbullying has grown everyday. As more adolescents get involved with technology, unfortunately more of them have felt the need to get involved with other peers in a negative manner. Without finding a root cause to stop it, children and teens can be affected by serious and sometimes fatal mental health illnesses. According to a study, more than 15% of children said that they were either being cyber bullied or they were the target of some aspect of cyberbullying. (Ockerman, Kramer, and Bruno). As a result, whether children are bullying or being bullied, the numbers are increasing. This has the possibility to dig America in another hole that it does not need to be in, with adolescents being horribly affected every day. Cyberbullying worsens the mental health of children ages 12-18 in the United States. Online abuse worsens the mental health of adolescents by increasing
Children deserve an environment that helps them learn best and sometimes schools are not the best option. Today’s kids are this world’s hope for the better future and need a better, healthier environment and where else than at home. Homeschooling is a great option for children to learn. Bullying is a really sketchy topic that isn’t acknowledged as much as it should be in today’s society.
This article examined how psychological distress can be impacted by bullying at school or online. Specifically, it was aimed at investigating how factors, such as sex, sexual orientation, and cooccurrence of both types of bullying, can mediate this relationship. The authors cited research suggesting that cyberbullying is correlated to negative school experiences, lower academic performance, negative perceptions of school, as well as increased emotional distress and anxiety. Of the roughly 20,000 high school students surveyed from an area near Boston, 16% reported suffering cyber bulling, 26% reported suffering school bullying, and 60% reported both. The authors found that instances of cyberbullying were more frequent among girls (18%) than boys (13%), as well as nonheterosexual individuals (33%) relative to heterosexual individuals (14%). The authors also found that school bullying decreases more (from 32% to 17%) than cyberbullying (from 17% to 13.4%) throughout one’s high school career. Having lower school attachment and performance was also found to make an individual twice as likely to suffer cyberbullying (11%) than having more average performance (5%).
Has anyone seen movies were they portray a child more than perfect? Has the charisma, intelligence, beauty, ambition, care, and has a successful life that everyone would like to have? Of course an individual will never be perfect, they will always possess good and bad traits. For an individual to find true identity and uniqueness, they have to go through the process of human development. Each person goes through different paths in life trying to explore the world to seek out their identity. Life goes through many changes, from infancy to late adulthood were there are trials and tribulations. An individual is influenced throughout life by multiple factors such as different styles of parenting, social stereotypes, ethnicities, and gender.
Cyber-bullying has become a fast growing problem in the nation. Due to the growth of technology today. Most cyber-bullying cases are likely to occur at school. Cyber-bullying is done through the use of cell phones, social media, and Email services. There are however steps to reduce the cyber-bullying at schools, and at home. Elementary School students that have become victims to cyber-bullying, for example, go through name calling such as you are gay or making fun of their clothes. Students are harassed, threatened with the use of violence, making up false rumors, and even taking pictures, or a video of a student to sexually blackmail them. Students Self-esteem, academics and social skills are also affected. Many students commit suicide due to the result of bullying.
The central idea was they were trying this system called stop,walk and talk to stop bullying and stop it from hurting from hurting other students. For example in the text it said " All teachers and students are trained in a program called "stop,walk and talk." Another example is "In the past, schools didn't deal effectively with bullying. Now, dozens of school districts across Illinois have anti-bullying programs. Equally important,though, is teaching students to respect each
Bullying is a kind of abuse that is acted to hurt someone , either emotionally or physically. In early age , children repeat some actions again and again intentionally to hurt someone and irritate other people through those actions or hit someone again and again for the same purpose. In fact , that is bullying [Tom McIntyre (Dr Mac ) and Alexis Franks (N. D. )] . In 3-4 year olds, bullying is considered intentional. There are three to four kinds of bullying into early age and we can identify the signs of bullying (especially parents ), reasons of the identified signs can also be searched out by parents, and there are some steps through which we can over-come bullying because if parents don 't stop bullying into early age of their children, bullying will increase with growth of that child [Kim Storey, Ron Slaby (2013 )] . There are too many problems of bullying, such as stereotyping, which is one of the major issue that will occur if parents don 't control their children in early childhood. Children can also grow to hate some relations when they grow up and always see negativity in those relations. For example, a child in his early childhood, whose name is Chris, hits his cousin Rena and bites on her arms because she plays with his toys. Chris may carry this hate from now till the time he grows up and by then he will only see negativity in Rena and would hate her forever. That is if his parents don 't change his perception of Rena while he 's still in the early