Persuasive Essay On School Bullying

In order to solve the problem of violence in schools, we must first find out who the problem is. Being that not every teenager is prone to participate in such violent acts as what happened at Columbine, there must be specific environment imposed on a particular biology to turn a teenager into an Eric Harris or a Dylan Klebold. These are not normal, healthy teenagers, and they don’t just become killers overnight. They become killers because they are already deeply disturbed individuals who can be sent over the edge by all sorts of innocuous influences. Violent teens often have specific characteristics that put them at high risk for committing these crimes. These high risked students may display some of the following traits. First,

As the world recovers from recent school shootings, people wondered why these events have occurred. They are focused on drug use, violent society, video games, bullying, and mental issues to try and explain an unexplainable event. The idea that a person would shoot others for little or no reason gave little relief to the survivors.

April 20th, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went to their school in Littleton, CO. They preceded to kill 12 and injure 21 students and faculty before killing themselves. Columbine shooting is infamous as one of the worst school shootings in US history. Harris and Klebold were known as outcasts and were ridiculed regularly. It has been said that they were out for revenge on the school for being mistreated (New York Daily). This extreme case is the cause of a broken psyche due to repeated blows from peers. “Harassment and bullying have been linked to 75% of school-shooting incidents” (Statistics). Not every case will lead to a mass shooting, but is more plausible to lead to suicide. Teenagers are taking their own lives, because they can

Since mass and school shootings are on the rise it is crucial to find a way to categorize these school shooters in an effort to minimize the amount of people who actually carry out the horrific act and to help pinpoint the most effective treatment intervention. Some of the factors that the media coverage focuses on are social factors such as peer harassment and the influence of media violence (Langman, 2009). In order to categorize Christopher Harper-Mercer, the examples provided in Peter Langman’s article on Rampage School Shooters: A Typology will be compared and assessed. Through this article Langman assesses the acts and history of 10 school shooters and separates the shooters into three distinct categories: Traumatized, psychotic, and

In the article titled Ultimate revenge of the bullied, it’s stated that "More subtle, insidious forms of bullying are also on the rise, with text messaging and web forums allowing cowards to hide behind technology” (par.1). With the increase in people using social media, more people are starting to get bullied. An increase in bullying has caused kids to start committing heinous crimes. Lately, there has been many school shootings and that has surged a lot of conversation on possible reasons as to why they are happening. There has been research looking into why school shooters are deciding to shoot up schools and what exactly is wrong with them. In the article, Ultimate revenge of the bullied, the article goes in depth in how school shooters are made and the bad they go through that pushes them too far. Through all the research that is on school shooters most share a few things in common. School shootings are done

This paper addresses the juvenile aggression problem of an active school shooter. The active shooter is an elusive concept that has garnered significant societal, media, and government attention in the United stated in recent decades, and although there is no designated “profile of an active school shooter, there are notable trends, characteristics, and scenarios that lend to further understanding of these individuals and what measures can be taken to combat this problem. The author explores a concise history of U.S. school active shooters, and after examining some of the general trends and patterns in juvenile active shooter dynamics, this

    By studying the past shootings, researchers have learned why teens and adults shoot up schools and how these shootings happen.  Most of the shootings were attacks on someone (“215 School Shootings in America Since 2013”). That most likely means that the teen shooting up the school was bullied before and trying to shoot the bully. Shooters also sometimes tell their peers their plan(Newman). If the peers are smart enough to know that bringing a gun to shoot up the school then they should tell the principal or a teacher what their friend’s plan is. They should tell even if they are scared about maybe losing the friendship because saving a school is more important than keeping one friendship. When kids bring their gun(s) to school and pull the trigger it gives them a sense of power(Devore 13). Kids are lonely and want comfort(“School Shootings: Not about Guns, its about Loneliness”).

Not only do school shooters have similar characteristics, they also have similar background history as well. Most have shown risk factors that have tied them to criminal behavior. These risk factors include abusive or ineffective parenting, arson, hurting animals, tendencies to be very self-centered, and show a lack of compassion for people and objects

Many characteristics are similar in high school and college shooters, as Newman and Fox discuss. One tendency that is apparent in many of the cases is the fact that many of the shooters were very organized and had extensive plans for their attacks (Newman and Fox, 2008, p. 1303). Many of the shooters were attention-seeking and wanted fame after their deaths as well (Newman and Fox, 2008, p. 1303). Also, almost all shooters had the intention to harm a random selection of people (Newman and Fox, 2008, p. 1303).

Society plays a big role in the development of a school shooter. When an individual feels isolated or excluded from a community and is a target for bullies, it often causes them to take out that repressed anger and lash out in heinous ways. Nowadays, students are typically at school five days a week for six to seven hours a day. That is a lot of time spent with classmates, and unfortunately, bullies. Bullying usually involves an imbalance of power, in which the bully hopes to establish a feeling of dominance over their victim. (Bullying, 2017) Being the victim of bullying is certainly an emotionally damaging situation, especially when one feels helpless and alone. Anger or discontent from the victim may develop into something deeper like hatred and the need for revenge, which is the reason why some individuals turn to shooting schools- to finally hurt others instead of being the one getting hurt. One horrifying example of bullying taking

Have you ever heard of the Columbine Massacre that took place in 1999? It involved two teens Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who went on a brutal rampage at a high school in Colorado. Killing thirteen and injuring more than twenty, right before they turned the gun and shot themselves. Many guesses but no proven facts for this tragic event provide details for the bullying that occurred at school. Violent video games and music supposedly influenced Eric and Dylan in their killing rampage (History).The violent acts perpetrated by individuals involved in the recent school shootings can also be linked to bullying and a sense of not belonging such as the Columbine Massacre. A typical student will experience many obstacles throughout his/her life

A characteristic shared by the school shooters is that they were all bullied. Leary, Kowalski, Smith, and Phillips (2003) organized the characteristics that the shooters from the previous incidents and created a table showing each trait. The shooters all landed in the category of being bullied or teased by a classmate. Bullying is any type of unwanted aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves an imbalance of power. For example, bullying can include actions like making threats, spreading rumors, attacking one physically or mentally, or/and excluding someone from a group on purpose. These actions are commonly done repeatedly and they allegedly lead to most, if not all, school shootings. ("Bullying Definition | StopBullying.gov", 2013).

“The Department of Health and Human Services’ Stopbullying.gov website” reports that the offenders of 12 of 15 school shootings in the 1990s had a history of being bullied. Witnesses of a 2013 shooting at Sparks Middle School in Nevada recall the 12-year-old shooter telling a group of students, "You guys ruined my life, so I'm going to ruin yours." In 12 of 15 school shooting cases in the 1990s, the shooters had a history of being bullied. Since the school shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., in 1999, parents, educators and government officials have been worried about a link between bullying and school shootings. The school shooting, caused by two kids that has been bullied, lead to killing themselves in the school library, and also killed 11 students, one teacher and wounded 23 others. The number of students and faculty killed would have been in the hundreds if the bombs they had planted in the cafeteria and their cars had gone off as planned. (Bentley, Lynn, 2012.) If all of these school shooting is caused from bullying and something needs to be done about

Bullying to me is the most hurtful way of communicating between students, especially high school students. Bullying can cause students to commit suicide,depression and become antisocial, and rage to the point they shoot up a school. This is the most devastating thing a kid could ever go through. In just 2 weeks I have been to the office. 3-4 times to report some kind of bullying for example name calling, fight threats, Ignored or left out because of rumors,and rumors itself. When you see nothing is being done about it, because of the “policy”. You enter a state of mind where you feel like you have slipped on mud and you see

Back in the past many have focused on drug and alcohol use in school students along with students carrying weapons to schools, and it seemed as if no one was recognizing the significance of school bullying. For victims of bullying, they go to school every day facing harassment, taunting, and humiliation. Kids today come home and kill themselves or never want to go back to school because of BULLYING. “Studies show that 25-35% of teens encountered some type of bullying in their lifetime (Nansel et al,).” Bullying is a form of violent behavior that happens not only in the schools but everywhere. Kids everywhere have been exposed to bullying in school for generations and ages . Although bullying has always been a factor the consequences for