Greek Anti-Bullying Program Analysis

Despite the anti-bullying campaign that’s been established in every school across America, bullying still happens. For a lot of students, school is an unsafe, uncomfortable environment. Bullying happens in many different forms and sometimes it’s hard to recognize.

The concept of bullying in the school system has been linked to many homicides and

Anyone can be bullied. Why is it wrong for teens to be bullied but be perfectly acceptable for adults to be bullied? There are so many cases of workplace bullying and domestic abuse, that’s bullying for adults. Is it okay for those people to just treat others bad because there’s nothing to prove them wrong? Does the First Amendment require proof of the defendant’s subjective intent to threaten in order to convict him of threatening another person? Or is it enough to show that a “reasonable person” would regard the statement as threatening? This brings me to the subject of Elonis vs. United States.

The anti-bullying movement is a social movement that tries to end all types of bullying including bullying in the workplace, school, and elsewhere. Through the Durkheim’s and Weber’s ideals, one can figure out why this social movement is important, and bullying is not needed in our society. Using functionalism, one could deduce that bullying is necessary to keep society in equilibrium. However, that is probably not the case. The victim of bullying is not socially integrated into one group (or integrated into a group of victims). Being bullied can be due to social and economic differences, which is against the idea of organic solidarity, as this means that people are accepted due to their differences. This act is not “socially or biologically”

In the article, “Why our approach to bullying is bad for kids” by Susan Portor talks about how our culture reacts to bullying in the school system. Bullying has been a worldwide epidemic in our school system. The children that are being bullied end up having emotional distress that can lead to depression, maybe bullying others to gain back some control, even hurting themselves and the extreme of committing suicide.

Bullying has been recognized as a risk factor in improvement and personal growth of children and adulthood. It is a form of hostile conduct in which an individual engages to cause another individual harm or distress (Kirves, & Sajaniemi, 2012).. Therefore, it is vital to be able to detect signs of bullying in order to stop further consequences, such as self-harm, and suicide. Children who have experienced bullying become hopeless, anxious, have low self-efficacy, and have recurrent negative thoughts (Kirves, & Sajaniemi, 2012). Research in bullying has also concluded that children who bully other children are more prone to become anti-social and engage in criminal activity (Kirves, & Sajaniemi, 2012).

There has been a lot of research done on bullying since the 1980s when Olweus, who was a Norwegian researcher, began to study bullying. In Scandinavia, bullying had become a social interest because people noticed that it was a problem in their society. The school officials in Scandinavia did not take action against bullying until three boys from Norway had committed suicide because they were bullied by their peers. This event caused national interest in bully and victim problems. Since, people suspected that there was a bullying issue they had conducted a study in which data was obtained from 150,000 students .The results indicated that 15% of students in Norwegian schools were involved in bullying (Olweus, 2014).

Powhatan Public schools has implemented the Olweus bullying prevention program for grades k-8. The first step in the Olweus bullying prevention program is to recognizing the bullying. These included the definition of bullying being; aggressive behavior which involves unwanted negative action, involving patterns of behavior repeated over time, and an imbalance of power or strength. These are the three definitions used to recognize bullying behaviors. The Second part of the Olweus is understanding the types of bullying. According to this system there are nine way which a student can be bullied. The nine ways are; verbal, social exclusion or isolation, physical, lies or false rumors, damaging others things, threats, racial bullying, sexual bullying

Bullying prevention policy has been gone about in many different programs, a couple of the important ones include Steps to Respect, which focuses on schools in California, and Positive Action which targets schools in the Chicago area. Bullying is not an uncommon occurrence, and unfortunately, it is not uncommon for children to be affected by it. “Bullying occurs at all ages. “In 2010–2011, “6th graders being bullied at a rate of 37 percent, 8th graders at a rate of almost 31 percent, 10th graders at a rate of 28 percent, and 12th graders at a rate of 22 percent.”It takes place in a crucial stage of development so being victimized, whether emotionally or physically, can take a major toll on them and shape them very drastically for the

There are many bullying incidences that seem to commonly appear in schools, homes, and communities. PREVNet is a huge organization that promotes and worships the act of healthy and safe relationships. In reference to my thesis, the PREVNet anti-bullying movement has had a positive result in eliminating the harsh act of bullying in Canada, I will use this idea to support specific topics on cyber bullying, with regards to the PREVNet organization. I will explain what cyber bullying really is, stories and acts that have occurred, an explanation as to why this even occurs in the first place, and treatments that can be used to help these victims.

There are many social problems in the US and throughout the world today. One of the most significant of those problems is bullying (Macfarlane & McPherson, 2004). More than 160,000 children avoid school each day because they are concerned about being bullied or because they have been bullied and are too afraid to go to school (Macfarlane & McPherson, 2004). Cyberbullying - the use of a computer or other electronic device to bully someone - is also on the increase. That can be harder to avoid, and children have even taken their own lives because of the harassment. Nearly three million students are bullied through the internet every year (Macfarlane & McPherson, 2004). The number of children who are bullied gets larger each year, as does the number of children who bully others. There are many reasons children are bullied, and just as many reasons that children bully other children, but the main concern is how to stop the problem and keep all children safe.

On May 20th 2015, Maya Williams sued her former Victorian high school, Cardiff College, for negligence. She claimed that her school board and administrators had breached their duty of care by failing to properly implement the schools anti-bullying policies. She alleged that whilst she had been enrolled at the school (June 2013 – November 2014), she had been physically injured, humiliated, and regularly bullied. In October 2013, she was diagnosed with social anxiety and depression believed to have been triggered by bullying and discrimination in the school grounds. Additionally, she suffered severe panic attacks induced from bullying, which further resulted in a critical decline of school attendance and academic achievement. In January 2015, her family contacted the school in an attempt to resolve the issue, but the school did not act in accordance with their anti-bullying policy nor take steps to effectively deal with the ongoing harassment Williams faced. She argued the school failed to acknowledge and manage the maltreatment of the plaintiff despite bullying being evident to several teachers and staff employed at Cardiff College. Williams is seeking $250,000 in damages for psychiatric expenses and psychological injury.

The article "Zero Tolerance on Bullying: Letters" in the Citizen Glouchester (2012) contains varying opinions about an apparently previously published article on bullying. A brief summary of the previous article indicates that children have been expelled from schools in the city for bullying based on racism. Specifically, the article indicates that fourteen such children have been at least suspended since 2008 for this reason. One of the comments note that, on occasion, what is known as bullying is no more than an attempt by children to gain attention from their parents. The comment notes that the main reason why children would get into fights and name calling would be this attempt at getting attention. When parents then visit the school to determine the problem, speak to teachers or other parents, the attempt to get attention was successful. Another comment criticizes the report itself for being "sketchy" and misleading. The commenter makes the point that there was no information regarding the precise words that were construed as "bullying" or even the race it was directed at. The lack of such details, according to the comment, could have the result that potentially false assumptions are made, thus exacerbating rather than alleviating the problem. Specifically, the comment notes that most (both whites and nonwhites) would assume that the racism was directed by white students against black students. Also, the "figures" from the Freedom of Information Act being referred to in

Experience of being a victim of bullying can finally damage the mental health of students and motivate them to commit school violence. "According to statistics in two-thirds of cases of the recent school shootings, the attackers had previously been bullied" (Sampson, 2009, p.1). For most children learning process itself may already be a daily struggle and being a target for bullying at the same time can become "the straw that broke the camel's back", after which they consider suicide as the only possible solution. "A study in Britain found that at least half of suicides among young people are related to bullying" (Detlor, 2010). So, due to the fact that problem of bullying negatively affects students' learning ability, their health and the entire school climate society should take definite and urgent measures to solve it.

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