Gordan Korman's Schooled Analysis

According to dosomething.org, “Over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year.” Everyone can be a bully at one point and they may not even know that they are bullying someone. Which means that our actions can speak louder than our words, and sometimes when our filthy actions and crude words come together it’s not always a happy ending. In the end, someone’s going to be hurt.

Most of us have a picture of what bullying is in our minds. It’s the big kid shoving over the smaller kids and looking down at them with their arms crossed, or taking their homework and lunch money. Our idea of bullying is very physical, and we ignore verbal abuse. When students find the courage to tell someone what’s going on, they’re usually told to ignore the hateful slurs and to ‘not let it get to them.’ It seems that the teachers and faculty of most schools forget that words

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

Why would anybody want to be homeschooled? In Schooled, by Gordon Korman, the main character Capricorn Anderson goes through a lot in the story but on and on in the story it gets better. Capricorn Anderson grew up with his Grandmother Rain on Garland Farms, which is an alternative farm commune. Capricorn Anderson is a 13 year old hippie who has been arrested for the first time because he was driving without a license. He was driving because his grandmother, Rain, fell out of a plum tree and had to go to the hospital. She broke her hip. Now since Rain is in the hospital, Cap has to go into foster care because there is no one to live with him. Capricorn Anderson was homeschooled because in the book on page 5 it says, “no school bus could ever make it up the rutted, snaking dirt road that led to Garland.” Also they wanted to avoid the low standards and cultural poison of a world that had lost its way. Now Capricorn has to go to Claverage Middle School and he doesn’t really know how it works and about the real world.

The threat of violence that a bully make is subtle. Circus elephants when they are trained while young are with chains. Once they are accustomed to wearing the chain and after many attempts to break free. The chain is made smaller and thinner, until it is replaced with a rope. When you see an elephant with a rope, know that the elephant thinks rope. By the time, it is an adult, it had given up all hope. That is the same with long-time targets of bullies. They are also wearing a figurative rope around them. Th chain for them is the possibility of violence, even when in a setting that the bully could not actually carry out the implied

Sandy Zimmerman’s “Young Bullies Grow Up” (969 words), written as a short story and/or series, draws attention to the problems young bullies cause in the schools and while interacting with others as adults.

A few years later I became a golden glove champion, and won 29 out of 30 amateur bouts and gun violence, murdered Damon in Brooklyn we had become close friends by then. Obviously, after my fight with Damon nobody ever bullied me again, I simply wouldn’t allow it. And one strategy, I know from hands-on experience that won’t work is talking to the parents of the bully. My mother tried that and until I stood up to Damon it only made matters worse! If more people would stand up to bullies, bullies wouldn’t have anyone to pick on. My prevention program would target the victims of bullies. I’ve coached and mentored hundreds of adolescents in boxing and although boxing is violent by nature. It is a sport and a defense mechanism against people that want to inflict harm on the innocent. And although I don’t promote abusing other people in the street with it, I always encourage my fighters to use what I teach them to their advantage should they ever feel a bully backs them into a corner. Unfortunately, violence begets violence and on occasion, you must fight back to prevent it from occurring again on the grounds that absolutely no child should ever fear another. Consequently, running away from bullies only worked for

For a very long time, bullying has been a problem. Many wonder, are these people born that way, or were they turned into a bully from the factors outside of them? This centers around anything from a school shooting to calling fellow peers names and even to a group of firefighters getting into an all-out brawl. The article, “A Bully’s Future, From Hard Life to Hard Time”, written by Jane E. Brody and the novel, Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, prove that bullies are not born, yet they are made. Children are frequently forced into acting certain ways and dressing in certain ways so they can “fit in”. Many kids can feel alone and turn to bullying because they do not want to do what people expect of them. “In a videotape, the young gunmen attributed their acts to retaliation for years of taunting that they said friends and relatives had

The role of bullying encompasses of what actually takes place in school environments and what goes on in communities, families and agencies where children are violent. The authors looks at “A Staging Paradigm” in which the authors divided the violence in patterns and five patterns: repetitive school disruptions (pattern 1), acute case of child aggressor or victim (pattern 2), highly submissive victim or aggressive young student (pattern 3), child with self-injurious or self-defeating behavior (pattern 4), and truants and dropouts (pattern 5). It was noted that bullies are allow to do what they want because bystanders would not intervene and this creates a humiliating experience for the community and the family not to have a peaceful environment ( Weisbroth 2012).

To bully is to use strength and power to intimidate or harm the ones who are weaker. In the documentary “Bully”, directed by Lee Hirsch, the theme of the film is how many teachers and parents actually do not know what is happening in the lives of the children that they care for. However, there are also so many children who are hesitant to tell anyone that they are being bullied. The film follows the lives of several children who are faced with bullying every day. This film also follows parents whose children have committed suicide. Their lives had become intolerable and no one noticed or someone noticed and they did nothing too late. There are teachers and administrators who are clueless as to what is happening and some just flat out do not want to

The time has come when the common old time thug making a place for themselves has ended and now the devastating effects of the new bully come to life. New bullies don’t just stop with words and maybe a playground fight, now we have severe physical trauma and even death as a result of the negative responses to this type of treatment. Amazingly enough the amount of physical bullying has increased as with the increase of school bullying:

Have you ever wondered why the bully bullies? 8 of you said you were bullied and 5 of you were bullies. Well, believe it or not the bully needs the same help than the bullied. They are in different sides of the problem but still they both have a problem. We can’t forget that we are talking about kids, about human beings.

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.

Everyone has either been bullied or have been the bully, but the ones who are the bully don’t see what they’re really doing until it’s too late.

The outcome of physical violence can cause a grave threat to those students who cannot defend themselves or don't know how to deal with bullies.