Is Bullying Worth The Pain?

Bullying, by definition “is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance” (Stop Bullying). Bullying has quickly become a serious problem in schools, and it negatively impacts both the bully and the victim. Students who have been bullied even once in their lifetime have a higher risk of attempting suicide, and in general have lower self-esteem, causing them to have difficulty maintaining relationships. Bullies themselves also begin to harass their peers because they have been abused or uncared for by their own family. While it may seem bullying is just a normal part of the high school experience, victims of bullying can face many psychological problems. Bullying is not something that should be disregarded, but instead should be properly addressed so that children who are bullied can find the help they desperately need.

Have you ever been a target of an individual’s cruelty and hatred? It does not necessarily have to be physical, but more like being verbally degraded or publicly humiliated. The effects bullying can have on its victims is something that may last throughout their lives, or something that may end their life(Braithwaite, Hyde, Pope, 2010).We all are well aware of childhood bullying but as evidence shows bullying does not stop on the

Children tend to be less involved in school activities and tend to withdraw themselves from any communication with others. School aged children who endure bullying tend to become shy and very timid making it difficult to interact among their peers. This makes them less likely to have friends and leaves them feeling worthless. Research has shown that girls are more likely to be bystanders of bullying acts to maintain social support and friends (Waldrip, 2008). Most girls try to maintain a status which creates issues among each other and they tend to bully the one’s that effect this status. As the bullying continues the victim’s turn to harmful acts or even commit suicide. Recently in a nearby local community a student that was being bullied bullied committed suicide. The bullying she endured had her depressed to the point where she felt there was no other way out of the vicious acts but to end her life.

Bullying is a problem that is on the rise in society; however, many individuals have a distorted view of what bullying entails. Usually when someone thinks of bullying, they assume that it is a standard part of a child’s life. This view, on the contrary, is erroneous. Bullying is actually abnormal behavior, many times, leaving victims with a dismantled self identity. Since some people do not understand the consequences of bullying, the actions of the bully often go unnoticed and are perceived as “kids being kids”. The issue of bullying goes deeper than that nevertheless. Despite the erroneous views that many individuals hold towards bullying, it is still a distortion of normal behavior in children.

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

Assumingly, all high school students are well informed on the topic of bullying and most would agree with anti-bullying policies, but this public argument is not about that. The argument's main point was to encourage change in bullying behaviors from the different point of views (the bully's, the victim's, and the bystander's) in order to promote action against high school bullying among its students. High school bullying is a big dispute that many articles and papers have devoted their time and effort to refute and have succeeded in making people conscious of the issues surrounding them. Yet, they did not succeed in causing actual change and reformation in high schools, which is not the change that this paper wishes to manifest to its audience. Its objective is to illustrate to its teenage audience, what they can do in any bullying scenario, whether they are the bully, the victim, or a person watching from the crowd, that they have an option to prevent bullying and slowly make a change. Its purpose was to show how bullying damages a person's self-worth, how it unfolds pointless beatings, and how mental and emotional disorders come to be. The big dispute was to inspire reasons and give examples on why the prospect of students acting on bullying situations refutes them just comprehending them so, one day the trend of high

Along with mental illnesses, there have also been several cases where bullying was the cause for a child to act out in a violent way, or the bullying itself was taken to extreme levels. Bullying is becoming a widely spread epidemic, with students handling it in very different ways. Children have done everything from commit suicide as an escape from bullying to killing entire classrooms of people to get back at the bullies. According to the National Institute of Health, “both childhood bullies and their victims are more likely to engage in more serious violent behavior, like frequent fighting and carrying weapons” (Longley). Bullying is a serious thing that should not be taken lightly and, like any other issue, parents should be

An appropriate step of a bystander is getting help by telling a friend or a trusted adult. A trusted adult can assess the argument between the bully and the victim. The impartial decision and solution made by the adult may have unwanted consequences for the bully. “When it comes to empowering bystanders, simply telling students to “tell an adult” is not enough.” As another step, the bystander must be vocal by expressing how the victim might feel by being bullied. As a bystander takes the risk of getting involved, a friend is all that may be needed by a victim to share the feeling of being alone, scared, and helpless. With only 63% of students reporting watching a bullying incident, there is still plenty of work to be done by the bystanders, (https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beyond-pink-and-blue/201504/bullying-hurts-everyone-even-bystanders). When a bystander decides to take action and acts on the behalf of the victim, nearly 57% of the bullying incidents stop, 4(https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beyond-pink-and-blue/201504/bullying-hurts-everyone-even-bystanders). Even all of the ages one through twele grades are getting bullied even adults. It is not easy to stand up to a bully even when the bully does not stop. We, the people, of the United States have the right and responsibility to stop all

Bullying in American schools has become an underrated topic to converse about. It is a worldwide problem that can have negative consequences for the general school climate and for the right of students to learn in a safe environment without fear. Throughout Elementary schools, students are taught about bullying more than any other grade school. 282,000 students are physically attacked in secondary schools each month. As generations have evolved, kids in all schools get bullied rapidly and are afraid to report it. They feel they have no one to go to and situations like this can ruin a young life. Students can start bullying at a young age and stay consistent through until they graduate. Young people commit suicide due to being bullied in American schools. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year according to the CDC.

Bullying cannot be accomplished with one or two people; many others contribute. In this book, I will discuss in further detail four roles that are played in bullying: the victim, the bully, the bystanders, and the teachers. Each role is different, and each contributes something that factors into the issue of bullying.

Bullying has become an issue that affects “school achievement, pro-social skills, and the psychological well-being of both bullies and their victims” (Uba, Yaacob, Juhari, & Talib, 2010). According to StopBullying.gov (n.d.), some of the warning signs are that your child is coming home with damaged or missing clothing, unexplained injuries, frequently complains of feeling sick, has trouble sleeping, or runs away from home (Recognizing the warning signs). In some cases, teens and preteens are taking their own life after being bullied, so the question some have now asked is, how serious is it? Should bullying be looked at more than just rivalry among peers?

When one thinks of bullying, they usually associated it with the phrase, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” those “sticks and stones” may not only just break those bones, but can undoubtedly leave a lasting impact on a person and make those hateful words and actions hurt that much more to a point that the person would not know how to deal with them. Bullying has become a problematic issue in today’s society, especially where school age children is concerned. Bullies alternative motive too often is to attack those who seem to be more vulnerable, or weaker than any other person. The reason for this is because the one that is doing the bullying knows that person to whom they are bullying, will never anything

Bullying is not something that goes away after it happened once or twice, they will keep coming until something is done about the oppressor. If nobody acts upon them, serious consequences can occur. As a matter of fact, suicide is the third leading cause of death of young people. Over 14 percent of high schoolers have considered suicide and almost 7 percent have attempted it. If not suicide, they are most likely to grow up with social anxiety, low self-esteem and will require more mental health services throughout life. Furthermore,

The impacts of bullying carry similar consequences as those who are victimized by corporal punishment. Victims of these acts are more likely to develop social, emotional, and even physical complications in their lifetimes. These acts can affect a child’s self esteem, social skills and their ability to interact with other children, their level of trust with others, and if the abuse is intense enough, the victim can not only have scratches and bruises, but broken bones as well. Not only are these victims directly influenced by these behaviors, but these violent acts may cause the victim to engage in similar ways towards another individual. This only further exacerbates the problem.

One major phenomenon that is responsible for the setback in the development of human society is child abuse, specifically bullying. Bullying in schools have been a worldwide problem that have negative consequence for the general school climate and for the right of student to learn in a safe environment without fear. Bullying is considered by experts “as deliberate hurtful behavior, taking the form of negative actions or comments where there is imbalance of power making it difficult for the subject to defend him or herself and where the behavior is repeated”. Each year tens of thousands of students are traumatized physically and emotionally making bullying as common as it is shocking with scars which are deep and long lasting, affecting not just the victim but the society as well. This behavior lead the victims to have low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, and loss of appetite if possible insomnia and many more. Fortunately bullying could be solved by parent encouraging kids and having open communication, school building awareness, setting laws and punishing those who violate the law, etc.