Proposal For School Bullying

Each year, bullying affects the lives of at least 3.2 million students across the globe.  While some schools tend to look over bullying, many schools have started to reprimand their students for even the slightest act of bullying. However, bullying does not start and end in the school.  Bullying starts in the home and it is the responsibility of the parents to encourage their children to be kind and respectable people. In the times of social media and the internet, bullying is a bigger problem than it has ever been. Even though bullying has always been a problem in the lives of adolescents,  it is ultimately the responsibility of parents and school faculty to make sure bullying is stopped in it’s tracks and does not become a bigger problem than it already is.

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.

Over the past couple of years, the issue of bullying in the educational environment has gained national attention, various laws have been put in place to prevent bullying. The methods of bullying have changed from cyberbullying, verbal bullying, and physical bullying. Bullying has been known to effect a student’s metal, social, and physical capabilities. Some of the consequences of bullying are suicide, depression, and lack of self-esteem.

Bullying has been around for years, but it has never been taken to the extreme as it has today. According to Berthold and Hoover, Slee, Walker, Ramsey and Gresham, “targets of bullying may suffer greatly in terms of their social and emotional well-being, become anxious, and depressed, isolate themselves from peer groups, and avoid school for fear of being bullied”. With the help of school-based intervention programs, the frequency of bullying has the ability to be minimized greatly. Many theorists and practioners believe programs have already been put in place to intervene bullying, but too many tragedies are still occurring, so there needs to be more of an effective intervention.

Bullying is continuing to grow as a problem in schools today, affecting 1 in 3 children in the United States (Shetgiri, 2013). Studies show that between 15-25% of U.S. students are bullied frequently, while 15-20% of students report that they bully others with some frequency (Nelson et al., 2001).This makes bullying an important public health problem and it is gaining more recognition as a problem affecting the well-being and psychosocial functioning of school-age children. The focus of this paper is limited to bullying during the school-age period, which includes children from six to twelve years of age.

The climate of the school and its environment can negatively affect student's learning and also delay the ability of students to learn. Students may also feel insecure and tend not to like school very well if they are victims of bullying. While bullying is considered to be a serious problem that will impact the school experience of all children involved, it will also affect these children emotionally. We must address this issue in school settings in order to prevent negative outcomes for students in relating to impacts on their emotional, and mental health, academic learning, and social development. This paper will talk about the background of bullying, the factors that contribute to bullying, two prevention and three intervention techniques and strategies that can be used to help minimize and reduce bullying inside the school

There are a variety of barriers to implementing an ideal bully prevention program in schools. For example, the severity of bullying may be underestimated, lack of a well trained faculty and staff, and other important issues, such as academic performance and graduation rates. However, bullying indisputably is a prevalent problem that can result in many negative outcomes as outlined previously. Thus, an ideal anti-bullying program could help to decrease potential negative consequences and increase achievement. An effective anti-bullying program would consider activities that deal with vital issues involved with the problem of bullying. For example these activities would include school faculty, student, and parent involvement, educational approaches with students, interventions with bullies, victims, and bystanders, and systems-level interventions (Sherer & Nickerson).

Awareness of elementary school bullying has increased in recent years and is the subject of global attention and research. The occurrence of elementary school bullying is higher and is estimated to be twice the rate when compared to high school. This paper will discuss what bullying is, the types of bullying, the common statistics of bullying, myths and interventions to help. Bullying occurs because the children are lonely and unhappy, have a harder time

This chapter will be examining schools in context, including bullying. To start this there will be a review of what basic bullying is. There will be an explanation of the Zero-Tolerance policy. Specifically, the different forms of bullying that occur in the school context. There was a study done by Taylor& Francis Group with “An analysis of bullying among students within Schools…” After there will be a description of someone who is a potential target for bullying and how to handle it, if you are being bullied. To conclude this chapter, the effects of bullying will be gone through to help see what happens to the students that are victims of bullying and do not know where to turn to or feel like they have anyone that will be able to help them.

School administrators and personnel have long been tasked with handling the bullying culture that is so prominent in and out of the classroom. While the concept of bullying is certainly not new, its reach has expanded in a number of ways—and more and more recently, schools are being called to action after incidences of repeated bullying have beckoned students to flirt with the idea of taking their own life. Before entering a discussion on bullying, it’s important to come to a common definition of what it actually is. Dan Olweus offers such a definition in his journal “Bullying at School: What we know and what we can do”—“a student is being bullied or victimized when he or she is exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one of more other students” (Olweus 9). This definition still offers some ambiguity, but it lays the framework for when to consider instances of conflict in school as bullying as opposed to daily confrontation. In the following, I will analyze a number of methods of intervening in cultures of bullying both by their inherent thinking and their practical effectiveness.

In today’s schools, it seems there are always problems arising; one of these problems has become quite an issue and needs serious attention in order for it to be resolved. According to stopbullying.gov, bullying among school-aged children involves a real or perceived power imbalance and aggressive behavior towards other students. Most students will experience, first or second-hand, bullying throughout their time at school. This issue is causing our schools to become increasingly less functional and more dangerous. However, it is becoming more common for bullying to extend past the fences of the playground and affect children even when they are not at school. Bullying not only affects the school’s

Children of today are faced with the various facets of bullying on a daily basis. Bullying threatens the mental and psychological wellbeing of children, particularly during school-age years. The educational success of a student can be greatly hampered by bullying and school violence. Dr. Daniel Olweus, leading expert on bullying prevention in primary school settings, defines bullying as “when someone repeatedly and on purpose says or does mean or hurtful things to another person who has a hard time defending himself or herself” (Olweus, et al., 2007, p. 2). Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) defines bullying as: “overt, unwanted, repeated acts or gestures, including verbal or written communications or images transmitted in any manner (including digitally or electronically), physical acts committed, aggression, or any other behaviors, that are committed by a student or group of students against another student with the intent to harass, ridicule, humiliate, intimidate, or harm the other targeted student and create for the targeted student an objectively hostile school environment that: (1) places the targeted student in reasonable fear of harm to the targeted student's person or property; (2) has a substantially detrimental effect on the targeted student's physical or mental health; (3) has the effect of substantially interfering with the targeted student's academic performance; or (4) has the effect of substantially interfering with the targeted student's ability to

It is only in the recent years that attention has turned toward the widespread problem of bullying, especially in schools, and that bullying is identified as a serious problem that merits intervention and research (Coy). Therefore, relatively little effort has been made to overcome or address the problem, which still remains a widespread social vice. This paper purports to illustrate how, despite efforts made to rectify the situation, bullying still remains rampant, and is getting worse.

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All children deserve to feel safe in their school and enjoy all aspects of schooling. In this paper, I will share the long history of bullying in schools and in our society. I will also share how bullying has evolved and the effects of cyberbullying in our world today. In addition, I will discuss the effects of bullying on not only the bullies and victims but also their peers and school staff. Finally, I will offer some insight on how bullying might be resolved to help each student succeed and enjoy the social aspects of schooling.