My Responsibility Of The Cadet Wing (CW)

We flip-flop between ignoring bullying altogether, considering it “normal” and implementing “zero tolerance” policies that don’t address the relationships among students and between students and adults. (Friedman)

My first correction for this assignment came from doing my job as First Sergeant for my company. The correction involved three different cadets, Cadet Private Michael Avallone, Cadet Private Brian Brooks, and Cadet Private Riley Eck. On 2 October 2016, the above-stated cadets witnessed a cadet from a rival company running around Grant Area with company spirit gear. These cadets decided to go outside and get into a physical altercation with the cadet from the rival company in order to take the company spirit

Altogether bullying is not nice and shouldn't happen in any schools, and we must put a stop to it.

Furthermore, since there are no federal laws that address bullying, “bullying overlaps with discriminatory harassment when it is based on race, national origin, color, sex, age, disability, or religion.”(Federal Laws 1) After the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, forty-eight states put anti-bullying laws into place. All of their laws state that a hardcore investigation must take place, along with reporting it, followed by strict punishment. A victim has to report it happening from the same person or group repeatedly before anything is done about it, in order to suspend or expel the bully. Not many students in school are willing to report any bullying activity, they fear that they too will become bullied, for being a “snitch” or “tattle tale”. Students know that if the bully discovers who told on them, then it will make them more hostile and escalate them to find more cruel way to punish their victim. Even if the bully is expelled from school there is other means of torturing someone.

Students who are victims of bullying force themselves out of bed every morning with an overwhelming sense of despair because they know one foot stepped inside the institution interprets into a new day and a new game for the oppressor. Even though there has been a nationwide policy adopted by many Institutions in the efforts of putting a stop to bullying, many victims stay unnoticed due to failure of acknowledgment, failure of anti-bullying programs, and failure of catching early discerning behavior. Nonetheless, Bullying has gotten to be such an overused word that those who are in dire need of assistance aren’t receiving the attention needed to eliminate the issue from the start, however, there are solutions that could solve the epidemic

In the state of Ohio there seem to be substantial policies set in place to help alleviate bullying within the school systems. The Ohio Revised Code 3313.666 requires all school districts that receive federal funding to have a policy prohibiting harassment, intimidation, or bullying” (Ohio’s Anti-Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying Data Summary, 2017). This policy describes the processes for “reporting, documenting and investigating incidents of harassment, intimidation and bullying including cyber bullying” (Ohio’s Anti-Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying Data Summary, 2017). Under Section A, Code 3313.666 Harassment, intimidation, or bullying" is defined as:

Many levels of support are needed to conduct this program including administrators, an Olweus Bullying Prevention Coordinating Committee (BPCC), teaching staff, non-teaching staff (such as bus drivers, cafeteria workers, janitors, nurses, secretaries, librarians, and school counselors), parents, law enforcement

Many cadets with the Minnesota Wing Civil Air Patrol gained valuable training this past weekend at Camp Ripley during the Cadre Training Weekend. Cadets (minors) and seniors (adults) trained together for a summer leadership camp called encampment. They trained in areas ranging from making beds to handling tricky situations in exercises called situational leadership simulations. Cadet Trevor Prelesnik says, “I learned a lot about the mastery of regulations that flight sergeants need to have and how to better work with others.”

Over the past week  there has been several incidents of alleged Harassment, Intimidation, and Bullying (HIB). We have been diligently reporting the incidents and addressing each incident. However, I have noticed that some incidents does not rise to the level of Bullying and may not necessarily require and investigation. This Friday we will be having the HIB coordinator for Paterson Public Schools to come in to provide a training on HIB. Please come with your questions. For your convenience I have attached College Achieve's Policy on HIB for your review.

I believe integrity and the ability to efficiently problem solve are the most important qualities of a USMA Cadet and Army Officer. When faced with adversity, your first instinct may be to panic, but an officer's first response needs to be “how do we solve this problem, how can we do it in a way that upholds our values and supports the mission. West Point prepares future officers to embrace integrity while doggedly pursuing the mission in the most expeditious manner. Answering the above questions and doing so in a timely manner should be an officer's first priority. This questions needs to be in every cadet’s mind in the midst of the most difficult situations. Further, answers to this questions will help eliminate carelessness and ineffective plans because it will cause you to hold yourself to a moral code, to be detailed and to fix the root cause of the problem and come up with a workable solution.

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In 2007, seventy-four percent of varsity athletes, seventy-three percent of social greek letter organizations, sixty-four percent of club sports teams experienced hazing. (Most frequently Reported Membership Hazing Experiences among College Students, 2007). The number has risen tremendously since then. Not a single person tries to help anymore. If only people would realize what hazing does to others. Many people try to ignore it all. No one wants to admit that their child has committed something like this. In all honesty not a single human on this earth can say they have never been hazed or bullied in some shape, form, or fashion. Hazing needs to stop if it does not stop suicide rates will go up, there will be more injuries and depression due to hazing. Hazing is very dangerous, harmful, and disrespectful.

Throughout the last 30 years, bullying cases of various types (physical and verbal) and situations (cyber and social) are growing rampant; and as a result, we’re now accustomed to hearing daily of the turmoil. A young victim, abused and embarrassed, suffers another attack and a bully walks away with a few days of suspension doled out by a useless disciplinary policy, useless to inhibit it from reoccurring. Whether it’s sexual harassment, self-defense, or defense of another, a bullied victim should defend themselves from any physical attack without fear of repercussion.

Management should have a zero tolerance anti-bullying policy that clearly defines what is and is not acceptable behavior among employees. Clearly defined corrective action should also be stipulated in the policy. If the bullying is not taking place in plain view, the policy should also include step by step instructions for how to handle the situation. Telling work friends or journaling any bullying incidents, using specific dates and times, can help a victim prove their case. The human resources department of Amalgamated should offer confidential ways to assist an employee when they need to report a bullying case and need resolution of the case.

First of all, I really don’t agree with how the Hollister High School Handbook describes and defines bullying. According to it, bullying is “intimidation, unwanted aggressive behavior, or harassment that is repetitive, or is substantially likely to be repetitive” (Hollister R-V Schools 14). So basically it’s saying that it’s not bullying unless it’s repetitive. A kid could shove you in a locker or push you over and it’s ok, as long as it’s only one or two times. I think that bullying doesn’t require it to be repetitive, because it’s still hurting a kid in some way, and can hinder the educational process; the school should take out the repetitive part of it. Branson’s harassment policy, which is similar to the bullying policy at Hollister, describes it as “graffiti; display of written material, pictures or electronic images; name calling,