Marginalized Children Denied Education By Barbara Christiansen: Article Analysis

Some people may even say that bullying can often be seen as a good thing in a child’s development and not just as a gateway to self-harm. The act of bullying, despite leading towards many negative repercussions, can introduce children to rather early, but harsh, lessons that not everybody in life is going to treat them as nice as they think. David Derbyshire’s article, “Why it’s not bad to be bullied,” states that that the mutual detestation of two individuals can actually help students in developing things such as healthy social and emotional skills, as well as sometimes having an even bigger impact on their development towards making friendships.”(Derbyshire, “Why it’s not bad to be bullied”). Even though the study did not suggest that it was healthy to be the victim of bullying, it also found that negative experiences, such as bullying, could teach children about conflict

Bullies may grow up and lead a life of ultimate rebellion or crime. These students start off with bullying and advance into acts of vandalism, theft, and alcohol and possible drug abuse. Left unchallenged, the bully will never understand that their behavior is inappropriate. The bully will grow up, victimize, and start a family of budding, pint-sized oppressors. Bullying is a learned behavior. Whereas, the victim may live a life of depression and anxiety. The victim may never reach their full potential because of fear and uncertainty. The victim has a difficult time making and keeping friends, and seeks to stay clear of confrontation. The victim loses his/her control or voice and lives in the shadow of the aggressor. Over time, the victim may begin to miss class, fake illnesses, and believe that he or she deserves bad treatment. In the end,

In the article Big Bad Bully by Hara Estroff Marano she discusses the main components of behavior that make up a bully, who can be a bully and why people choose to bully others. In the beginning of the article she focuses on suicide victims who could no longer take the mental, physical and emotional abuse of bullying. Marano (2017), “Months later, in Cherokee County, Georgia, 15-year-old Brian Head grew tired of the same teasing and deeds. The denouement was only slightly more remarkable. He shot himself to death—in front of his classmates. He walked to the front of the classroom and pulled the trigger.” The same teasing and deeds Marano is speaking of is being tripped in the hall, various name calling and being physically bullied. The article goes into depth of how the Western society treats bullying. We are prone to often dismiss bullying as kids being kids and, teachers are in denial that any such behavior exist in their class. However, the sad truth is that more times than not there is always a classroom bully. Because we often overlook the severity of bullying choosing to close our eyes we get a harsh reality when someone commits suicide. It forces us to acknowledge the hard truth with open eyes that we have chosen to close for too long.

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.

Ambition is what pushes the human race to become stronger and evolve as a whole. Every human is greedy, even if they may not show it. There are multiple instances and people in the play Macbeth by Shakespeare where this is shown. Such as, Lady Macbeth, when Macbeth kills the king, and when Macbeth kills Banquo.

Another differ between Blanche and Stanley is their interests. In the third paragraph, I mentioned that Blanche is a very wealthy person, the reader can guess that her interests can only be attributed to money, clothing and jewelry. “Look at these feathers and furs that she come here to preen herself in…a solid gold dress…fur pieces…(Williams, 6).” In every new scene Blanche always changing into her new unique looking garment. It is also made clear to Blanche's sister that Blanche love to put herself in a center piece because she loves to be admired and complimented about her beauty and fashion. “And admire her dress and tell her she’s looking wonderful. That’s important with Blanche. Her little weakness (Williams, ).” From these scenes, the

The loss of status in society, an inability to provide for one’s family, and unattained educational goals can lead to isolation and marginalization (Ahmed & Reddy, 2007).

After seeing the children having to go to school in such unsafe conditions, the problem of social stratification became even more depressing. Those children should have the right to go to school in the same conditions as others who also attend safe public schools. Not being able to conduct physical education in a gymnasium is absurd. The children’s education should not have to suffer due to theirs parents economic well-being classifying them on a lower scale and rating them as less important on the social stratification

“Moral relativism is the view that moral judgments are true or false only relative to some particular standpoint (for instance, that of a culture or a historical period) and that no standpoint is uniquely privileged over all others.” (Westacott, 2017) Moral relativism is a belief and worldview that states that the individual is the source of what is real and true and that there is no absolute truth in the world. Meaning no religion or way of life is absolutely right and can dictate what is morally sound behavior. Essentially this removes responsibility from ourselves to do what is morally right and allows us to act in a way that satisfies ourselves or meets what our own view of what is morally right says.

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”- Malcolm X. These words exquisitely describe what was wrong with the society in Brave New World. From the moment people are born they are forced into one of 5 predetermined castes. There are groups of people that are the complete opposite of the society that is first introduced that are recognized as savages and are held on reservations. The few people that feel they don’t conform to the ideals of the society are often exiled in order to ensure the population stays tantamount to their assigned caste. The public views this society as perfect when in actuality it is the complete opposite.

According to conflict perspective, the powerful group in family is the parent and the powerless group is children. The children must undergo the socialization in order to grow up to an adult who has the ability to live in the society. Unfortunately, some of the aspects of socialization is harmful to children because the children forced to be depend on their parent to survive so that their parent will acquire an enormous power which can be tempted to exploit and abuse the children. The statistic has shown that among 3 million children in United States are abused, including more than 1200 who are murdered by their parents every year (Thio, 2007). From the condition above, we can conclude that the children are the prisoner of the society because

According to nobullying.com, ¨Over 77 percent of students have been bullied verbally, mentally, and physically. Each day about 160,000 students miss school because of bullying or because of their fear of being bullied.¨ According to nveee.org, ¨86% of students said, “other kids picking on them, making fun of them or bullying them” causes teenagers to turn to lethal violence in schools.¨ When a student gets harassed or bullied it adds anger inside of them and hate. The feeling of being picked on and having this negative attention can make a child act out or feel hatred and somehow want a way to let the anger out. They could also have it all stuffed inside with all of these horrible thoughts and one day decide to explode which could result in a horrible outcome.

However, they are individuals just like any other child and they should be given the same opportunities that all children have. Poverty is a huge problem in many areas of the world. MacQueen states “poverty puts children behind from birth, and keeps them behind for life (2003).” If a child is in a household with little money, they may lack “the stable home in a safe neighbourhood, adequate nutrition, and the kind of involved parenting” that would be influential on the correct and desired development of the young child (MacQueen, 2003).

As more and more children go to school, the rates of bullying go up as time goes by. there are many times at which students suffer all the bullying that occurs within their lives. As more schools become aware of the magnitude of the bullying occurring right under their noses, there are rules created to aid the victim. There are various types of bullying and these are created to do one thing, instill superiority among the “stronger” and place a feeling of inferiority. Bullies are the ones who are detrimental to a child’s development.

Bullying is the cause of many suicides and deaths (Home n. pag). In McCormack’s article, he explains how many students are bullied each day and harassed to the point where they question their own self-esteem. They are no longer