Obstacles Bullying Prevention

Physical bullies are what they’re called physical, because they are known to kick, hit, push, trip, or cause any physical harem to another kid. Verbal bullies are the bullies that use their words to belittle their victim. They resort to name-calling, racial slurs, cruel comments about a person, or comments about their victim’s physical look. This type of bullying is the most common type of bullying and is reported the most. Relational bullies are the bullies that make it hard for their victim to be accepted by anyone. The bullies will single out the victim for all peer groups. This type of bullying is done mainly by a bullying spreading detrimental rumors and using extreme verbal threats pertaining to their victim (California Department of Education). Finally, the last type of bullying is cyber bullying. This is done by the bullies using the different social media sites to bully their victim. Cyber bullying is the use of electronics, phone, computer, etc. to post cruel and hurtful comments, pictures, and rumors about someone on the internet or on instant messages. There has been a high increase of teen suicide due to cyber bullying.

The first common theme is non-response. Notar and Padgett noted that bullying often got worse after nothing was done about it. The authors stated that parents may not be aware how to respond and were often dismissive of the situation when their child discussed being bullied. As for teachers, they often underestimate the intensity of bullying at their schools. One alarming statistic found that school staff thought that less than ten percent of the student body was being bullied, yet thirty-three percent

Bullying at school is a big problem that is found in all the schools in the United States and across the world. Since the late 1990s there have been several fatal school shootings committed by victims of bullying that have brought bullying major media attention. This has resulted in an increase of awareness about the harmful effects on the kids being bullied as well as the bullies themselves. This has brought a large amount of local, state, and nationwide programs designed to try to prevent bullying or to at least try to contain the problem. “In an effort to adequately address the problem, many schools are taking a proactive approach through prevention and intervention, but how do we know if and when such intervention is effective? First and foremost, we must have an accurate understanding of the dynamic and complex phenomenon of bullying across development and as it spans the multiple levels of the social ecology” (Casper, Meter, & Card, 2015, par 2). Many psychologists, sociologists, and school administrators have been publishing research on school bullying. Bullying is a significant threat to many children because it causes psychological problems not only for those who get bullied but also those who do the bullying. Even though bullying is a significant problem the are few solutions that can help prevent or significantly reducing bullying like reporting bullying, know the characteristics, and passing laws.

One of the easiest ways in order to eliminate the frequency of bullying would be to implement very strong anti-bullying programs in schools, this is the place where many children spend most of their days aside from home, these programs should be effective on a various amount of cases. Michael Morrow did research on elementary school anti-bullying programs and wrote the article “Consultation in Bullying Prevention: An Elementary School Case Study.” This article looked at the various research that has been done on anti-bullying programs and the papers that have been written about it. “Multiple prevention programs have been developed and utilized around the world to address bullying in schools and many employ a schoolwide or whole-community approach. While these programs share similar features, they also vary in numerous ways, most notably in their specific components” (Morrow, 2015, p. 87). There are programs that are implemented that may

School bullying and bullying as a whole has become a growing concern. The need for more intervention is more recognized, as incidents of bullying and inappropriate acts towards others occur in places outside of the classroom. This literature takes a closer look at bullying in schools. Olwesus (2013) states “the field of bullying research is to some extent plagued by problems, disagreements, and unresolved issues” (p.752). Whether if anyone will agree on the root of bullying, the fact remains that bullying has to be examined at its very core to remedy the matter before it becomes a bigger concern. There is a dire need for intervention based programs to be set in place to address the fact the act of bullying has lasting effects on the bully and the victim. When intervention programs are put into place to address bullying, the act of bullying decreases due to the gained understanding of the effects.

The information was then evaluated by experts, reliability and validity were both determined. From the results, it was determined that students want to see teachers take an active role in eliminating bullying behavior from the classrooms and the students feel that it is more helpful if teachers teach kids strategies on how to stop bullies from targeting them as well as, communication involving both parents of the bullies and victims (Crothers et al, 2006). Rigby's (2008) study found, in a later study, several ways to empower children in how to deal with bullies when the bully targets them. In a similar study, more recently, Espelage, Polin and Low (2014) had found that teachers' are more likely to intervene in a bullying situation when the student reported the bullying incidence to them (Espelage, Polin, & Low, 2014). In other words, students want to see teachers proactive in dealing with bullying, students also want to be empowered through training to deal with the bully, and they strongly find it helpful that some form of contact is made to the parents of the bully and their own

Solberg et al. (2007) acknowledges how unfortunate it is that these variations exist, telling very little of the prevalence across grade/age the bully-victim persona exists. The authors do however recognize this group as "at risk" according to most research on the phenomena. There is a power imbalance that makes bully-victims unique from just

The most important issue of bully always got away from the situations and did not gotten any noticed at all is because there will always bystanders choosing not to report or tell the authorities in charge (HuffingtonPost, 2014). The reason bystanders does not intervene is because they think that someone else instead of him or her will step in to stop the bullying (HuffingtonPost, 2014). Within the school compound, students believe that only adults are able to take full responsibility to intervene the bullying from happening as they feel that they do not have the power to do so (HuffingtonPost, 2014). However, almost all bullying cases occurs when adults are not present at that situations so the assailants are free to do whatever they want.

One of every five students is bullied each year (Bullying Basics,2017). Knowing that the problem of bullying is a large possibility in their classrooms, administrators’ and teachers’ main goal must be to offer a safe classroom and a positive, supportive learning environment to their students. If they work together to reach this goal, bullying can be

The Chapter 13 article emphasizes that teachers hold the key to change through successful prevention and treatment of bullying. Teachers are essential where their own behavior and interactions with students are critical to enhance their development. In order to eradicate or prevent bullying, teachers need to be aware and recognize that bullying is a serious problem. Although appropriate action is taken when bullying occurs, this topic will continue to be a painstakingly issue to solve.

Bullying is an issue that parents should be aware of or make themselves aware of. Being bullied is very serious as it leads to depression and suicidal thoughts or suicide. (O’ Moore 206). All parents today should know the warning signs if their child is being bullied or if their child is the one bullying other children. Children should feel safe and comfortable in coming to their parent and letting them know that they are being bullied and parents should know how to help their child or where to go to get them help to prevent the bullying. If more parents took the time today to become informed of the seriousness of the issue of bullying and became educated on how to prevent it than children may actually have a better chance at a normal life. Parents should be more proactive in preventing bullying in children by educating themselves and knowing the warning signs of bullying to end bullying once and for all.

One of the many health problems affecting children or adolescents today is bullying. Children who experience bullying reported that they got bullied by their looks, body shape, and/or race (Bullying 2015). One out of every four students (22%) report being bullied during the school year in the United States (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2015). About 46% of children or adolescents in Kentucky are victims of bullying in schools. Bullying is most commonly described by three characteristics: it is intentionally harmful, it is repetitive in nature, and there is a power difference between the bully and the victim (Oleweus, 1993). Almost 64% of children who are bullied do not report it; only 36% report the bullying (Petrosina, Guckenburg, DeVoe, And Hanson, 2010). It is impossible to determine the exact number of bullying incidents that occur in our primary and secondary schools each year. While there is some evidence to suggest that students now find schools safer that they were ten years ago, but bullying still occurs every day somewhere in someone’s life.

When looking at the overall school systems throughout the United States, it is acknowledged how common bullying is. As stated within the assignment title, bullying is one of the most serious problems faced in school systems today. Bullying is described in the text as occurring when, “one or more children,intentionally and repeatedly expose another child, who cannot readily defend himself or herself, to negative actions.” (J, 2004). There are many forms of bullying that can transfer into other forms easily as well as combined such as physical, sexual, verbal, gestures, along with other forms. (J, 2004). “You can get bullied because you are weak or annoying or because you are different.” (Mash, 2016). This can be connected back into this week's

Bullying is defined as “verbal, physical, or psychological abuse or teasing accompanied by real or perceived imbalance of power” and is usually targets what children perceive as different (Olweus, 1993). Bullying is prevalent across the nation. It has devastating effects on students each day. Bullying is a problem for all students, regardless of race, gender or class. The National Education Association reports that 160,000 children are absent intentionally from school each day because they fear being bullied whether it is an attack or just intimidation by other students. This accounts for 15% of all school absenteeism (Hunter, 2012). Dan Olweus (1993) from the National School Safety Center tells us that bullying includes three parts: (1)

    There are many ways to reduce bullying in schools, a few of those being immediate consequences for bullying, talking with the parents of the bully, and making sure the school is well monitored.  However, the first step in ending bullying starts with the bullied child reporting the bullying, but before a student reports an act of bullying, they must first feel that they are in a safe and comfortable environment.  Kathryn Whitted and David Dupper provide a few suggestions on how schools can make their students feel safer in their article, “Best Practices for Preventing or Reducing Bullying in Schools”.   Whitted and Dupper, through extensive research, found that students are more likely to report bullying if there