Rachel Fannon: The Tragic Consequences Of Bullying

Police, teachers, principals, state senators, and many others claim it’s not bullying that causes these mind numbing numbers of suicides and school shootings. They truly believe it is mental illness, depression, anger, and PTSD that causes the overwhelming number of suicides and shootings. What they fail to comprehend is that those are side effects as a result of being bullied.

3) The Teaching Staff, teaching staff should intervene at the first sign of any bullying, they must keep records of all incidents that happen involving children in their class, if they see another child from another class being bullied or bullying they should immediately inform that childs class teacher so they can intervene and monitor the situation. Teachers routinely liase with each other through staff meetings and discuss existing or new anti-bullying strategies.

Traditional bullying used to be more common back when there was no texting or social media. Bullying consistently takes place in person: the common actions often include teasing, taunting, humiliating, and sometimes showing acts of violence. Cyberbullying takes place online making it more humiliating and intolerable for the victim since the information doesn’t go away. They both equally cause the victim emotional distress and significantly lower their confidence while the bully feels more authoritative and quite satisfied. While the fear of getting bullied grows in the victim, they start to feel unsafe and decide not to go to school. All the students deserve to attend school without the fear of getting humiliated, harassed, or bullied, but what are the bystanders and teachers doing about bullying?

In a high school in Colorado two senior students Dylan Keloid and Eric Harris made an extensive plan to attack and kill students and teachers. Through their actions 12 people were killed and 24 were injured. In the end both students committed suicide. After this shooting much thought was but into why it happened, and how to prevent it from happening again. Idea such as movies and video games were brought into the forefront of discussion (Ross 2014). Bullying was also in question but many pushed it aside saying that the bully’s had graduated the year before (Ross 2014). These people who did not believe that bullying was a part of the cause did not take into consideration the mental effect bullying has nor the amount of bullying that goes unknown to others (Ross 2014). Students told authorities that the two boys had been harassed by many students and athletes throughout high school (Ross 2014). Authorities also found out that the school was notorious for turning a blind eye to bullying (Ross 2014). Though there were many other influences in the decision the boys made bullying was a major contributor to their mental health and view of the

Are you a victim, a bystander, do you stand up? They’ve hurt you mentally, physically, and you’ve finally had enough of it. Either way, you can help. Bullying is something that is repetitive over time, and has to do with 2 people and one usually has the upper hand. Mostly, between a popular and unpopular kid. As a student in Jerling Junior High I was bullied and was known to be a bully. I was bullied for a whole year by my best friend. I was known to be a bully to my good friend. In the end, we all made up and went our own ways. I researched middle school bullying because it is a huge problem and I learned how different types of bullying happens in school, how some kids believe that harming themselves is a solution, and even how teachers get bullied, not just students.

Bullying is a subject I totally take personally. There have been many occasions in which I found myself a victim of this epidemic, because that’s exactly what it is, an epidemic, a silent war, that no one seems to understand or even want to face alone, this issue that have swept under the rug all across this nation for a very long time, for far too long. The buck stops here! While reading through my Sunday morning paper over breakfast, I happened to run across a story that really tugged at my heart strings, and this is not the first story like this I’ve read. A young woman in high school here in my town kills herself because of continual bullying initiated by someone else at school. The question that runs through my mind is, why? There are

Bullying is a very sensitive subject especially when trying to explain to a younger child. Social Skills Training would be an effective way to manage a student who was bullying another student. Depending on what grade and how old is the child I would attempt to find out what triggers him or her to bully and who are they bullying someone bigger, smaller, smarter? Bullying usually happens because someone brought them pain and made them upset, so they want to make the victim upset as well. The bully could be having a hard time at home and brings it to school; the bully might have been bullied before and wants someone to feel their pain or bullying can also be his or her way of expressing feeling because the individual sees it happen at home. I

Bullying has become an important topic in schools, workplace and streets all around the world. Bullying is about gaining strength, being the boss, scaring students or other people and then at times hurting them. Students have been bullied by being called names, threatened, not having friends because of their race and on the internet. If a student is bullied, he or she can feel depressed, not so good about themselves, fail in school and even try to commit suicide in most of the cases, this has resulted in many attempts and campaigns to do away with bullying all together. However, the reality of the situation is that no single action or person can prevent bullying. ‘Now days we have bystanders, those are people who just watch or hear about the bully in a situation. Depending on how bystanders respond, they can either contribute to the problem or make the problem worse. The hurtful bystander are those who simply watch encouraging the bullying or just enjoy themself. The good Bystanders are those who step in and try to help, which is rare because they either feel powerless against the bully or think it is not none of their business’ (Saif).Bullying isn’t

Bullying is known as aggressive behavior towards someone, there are three types of bullying, verbal, social, and physical bullying (Capeless). Cyberbullying is another type of bullying, which is when people bully others on social media (“Prevent Bullying”). “Bullying is the most common form of violence” (Capeless). Bullies can be found anywhere, such as school, online, or any type of social environment (“Stand Up To Bullying”). If individuals start to see signs of bullying it should be prevented before it begins and becomes worse than it should be. Whenever people see someone being bullied there is always a way to prevent it, such as reporting it or talking to someone about it (“Prevent Bullying”). Verbal abuse is usually constant, but physical abuse can be even worse by middle school and then weaken or go away by high school. “72% of teens report “at least one incident”of bullying online (name calling, insults via IM or social networking sites)” (Capeless). If there is a parent and their child is being bullied, they need to try and help in any way they can. It may be hard at times, but people can somehow prevent it from happening by just being there for them or talking to them about it (Dorothy 233). People can also come together with their community and try to stop bullying from happening by communicating with others and coming up with a plan (“Prevent Bullying”). How would you feel if you or someone close to you was being

Bullying has been around for a long time and it is a part of childhood. These days, it seems it has become a lot worse and cruel because of frequent social media postings and related events on the news. Today, school shootings are not too uncommon. It seems like all the antibully government and school policies are not capable of preventing serious consequences. I would recommend parents, teachers and anybody who has school aged children in their circle to keep an eye on them, because bullying can have serious physical and mental long-term effects. Bullying can be prevented and reduced by teaching students that it is okay and safe to speak up and communicate with their peers and teachers.

Students aren’t always the most comfortable about speaking up about bullying. “Victims of bullying are often shy and tend to be physically weaker than their peers” ( ), They think they can’t do anything to stop the bully. Kids may also have low self-esteem and poor social skills , which makes it hard for

Having a child that is a victim of bullying is an experience that many parents can unfortunately relate to. The teenage years can be hard for any family but when bullying is added to that time in a child’s life there can be many more obstacles to navigate around. The challenges that come from teenage bullying can be an obstacle for parents as well as for the child. Stigmas, confidence, and parenting boundaries are only a few of the many various challenges or obstacles that victims and there families face on top of the bullying that is already troubling them. As a family preventing and removing obstacles caused by bullying can be difficult and these challenges, if not removed, can have serious impacts of the lives of the family.

Bullying should always be taken serious if one suspects, or has been in contact with a victim. “Long-term Effects of Bullying” by Dieter Wolke and Suzet Tanya Lereya explains that bullying comes in many ways, one may be showing aggression verbally by name calling, insulting the individual; indirect bullying which can include leaving the victim out on gatherings or games and rumor spreading; and lastly physically such as hitting, or shoving. “Long-term Effects of Bullying” also explains by “bullying the individual is seeking abuse of power by aggressive behavior or intentional harm-doing by peers that is carried out repeatedly and involves an imbalance of power, either actual or perceived, between the victim and the bully.” It has been shown that the younger the child is that is being victimized the more damaging the long term effects. By inflicting pain to a child or any form of suffering can really affect the individual as they get older and may perceive things in a more pessimistic way, it can harm the child to really be oneself and explore different things in life. Nonetheless it can affect the victim to make new friends if the individual who is bullying is spreading rumors or making threats to others to cease or refrain to talking to the victim.

Bullying has been at the root of school violence for a very long time. Studies show that as school shootings surfaced in the media (Peters, 2012), many of the cases were

What is bullying? Bullying is the act of aggressive and unwanted behavior that involves intimidating and/or physically harming another person. Among school age children, bullying involves a power imbalance of the stronger attacking the weaker. Children who are victims of bullying often feel alone and powerless to change their situation. When a child is bullied he can feel isolated, and clinical depression and low self-confidence may develop. As a parent, you may not realize that your child is being bullied. It is important to maintain open communication on a daily basis with your student, and discuss as much as your student will share. Sometimes a parent can share stories from their own past, and relive a bullying circumstance complete with a resolution or regret. This can open the door for your child to share his own problems and rely on you as his moral compass. When a parent steps in, their strength can bring hope to this predator/prey scenario. The child should learn how to handle the bully themselves, and learn how to take back their own power. Depending on the brutality of the bully, this can be as simple as standing up for oneself and saying “no”.