School Bullying and Violence

Throughout all of education’s history there has always been issues with one particular trait that some students or children carry. Bullying. Bullying over the course of the years still plays a role in the education system. Although the form of bullying has changed from the past to now, it still has an effect on students within the school systems. In the past there was the physical form of bullying where “jocks” would push the “nerds” into lockers or their books out of their hands. Another typical term used by bullies that anybody can recognize is, “give me your lunch money,” but bullying has evolved over the year. I believe that bullying now has more of an emotional impact on students and it’s mostly verbal. Social media plays a huge role in bullying as well, so what can teachers do in order to stop cyberbullying or bullying in general?

Most kids say that they don’t see bullying around school. In just Minnesota alone there is talk about bullying and how to prevent it. Sen. Franken states, “Nine out of 10 LGBT kids are harassed or bullied in school. One-third report having skipped school in the last month because they felt unsafe” (Shah 14). Kids should not feel unsafe to go to school. School is supposed to be a safe place to go and if someone needs help there are supposed to be people there to guide them. Franken adds, “But the sad fact is that our federal laws are failing” (Shah 14). Laws have been made to try to stop bullying, but bullying continues to exist. This shows how out of control bullying is becoming.

With sound, scholarly evidence, Newman argues that a majority of school shootings are caused due to the surroundings of the shooter. Therefore, she examines the connections of the individual shooters and takes a deeper look at their culture and communities. She finds that overall, “fifty-three percent were called names, fourteen percent were threatened and five percent were physically hurt”, and gained the knowledge that out of many incidents of school shootings, sixty-three percent of the cases were triggered by bullying (Newman 504). There has been a growing body of research that link a strong relationship between bullying and mass violence. For instance, Professors Michael Kimmel and Matthew Mahler of Stony Brook University found that most

There are various types of bullying that students are face with such as; physical bullying, this type of bullying involves hitting, shoving, pushing, tripping and any other kind of force. Verbal bullying involves the use of hurtful comments such as, name-calling and teasing. Social bullying involves using relationship to hurt someone, it involves excluding or ostracizing someone from a friend group, spreading rumors or the silent treatment. Cyber bullying happens over cell phone and the internet. School bullying is not subject to any particular gender both boys and girls are guilt of or victims of some form of bullying. However; bullying is likely to be missed by teachers, Johnson.pg 129 states “while teachers view bullying as a major problem, it is low on the list reported by students.” This quote explain that it is almost impossible to know whether a child is being bullied or the type of bullying that they experience. Therefore, in this essay I will claim that violence has increased in school as a result of bullying, and because of bullying student bringing weapons to school as a means of

Bullying has always been recognized as a normal part of growing up; therefore, most people in the past have not given bullying much thought. Bullying is often thought as “kids being kids” or a “rite of passage,” but it is much more of a problem than just being a kid (Maughan 2). According to the U.S. Deparment of Education, over 13 million students are bullied each year, and over 160,000 students avoid going to school because they are bullied (Maughan 1). Students who feel so threatened by bullying that they do not want to go to school demonstrates just how much bullying can change a child’s life. Bullying is a serious problem, and a child’s life could be dramatically changed by being terrorized at school. (Maughan, 1-2)

Most girls bullied as young kids, remember it for the rest of their life. However, Rachel Simmons not only remembered it, she decided to find out why it happened. Simmons found that not many people study the way girls bully each other, so she did just that. She wrote a book that discusses how girls bully, why they bully, and how to help. The goal of her writing this book seems not to be able to end bullying, but to be able to spread information. Before reading this book, most people would have had no idea about the different types of aggression, and how girls use these aggressions to bully one another. However, after reading the book, any reader would have much more knowledge on the topic of bullying.

In today’s world bullying is a significant problem not only affecting America but the whole world. If you believed it was hard for you to go to school when you were young you won’t believe how much harder it is to be a teenager today. The movie “Mean Girls” is a valuable movie because, although in a comedic sense it offers an insight into the bullying aspects of high school and how it affects teen girls. The viscous cycle of rumors not fitting in and doing anything and everything to fit in along with the emotional scars that bullying leaves behind.

The type of bullying that i am helping solve is direct bullying . Direct bullying is a physically harrising another student . "school based activities decreased bullying 25%" according to pacer.org . My program brings students together that have expirenced bullying . This group will give the victims an apportunity to talk about there problems and not just hold them in because it is very unhealthy to not to tell anything about tramitising  things like this. It will also give students an oppurturtunity to make new friends.My program will do things that will help with "things that come with bullying are depression, decrease in grades , and low self of steem"  according to stopbullying.gov .

The study came from the need to determine the role that bullying plays on adolescent violent behavior and delinquent acts. Most research has been done middle school bullying with very few studies looking at high school bullying.

According to the online dictionary, a bully is someone that uses superior strength or influence to intimidate another person typically to force the bullied person to do what the bully wants them to do. Bullying, whether in person or in the cyber world, has become an extremely large issue in society. I live in a very small, rural community where life is very laid back and everyone knows each other, but bullying still exists. I find it very interesting that each public school in Pennsylvania has an anti-bullying system that is practiced, anti-bullying is consistently taught in media and in religious institutions but it doesn’t seem to have impacted the rate of bullying issues. Most teenagers, whether they are the bully or the bullied, think the programs that they must participate in are a joke, and the media plays on the stories of those that

Bullying comes in many forms including: sexual harassment and emotional and physical abuse. Sexual harassment has been determined as one of the underlying problems in regards to children’s performance in an educational setting. In an article by Deborah Smith, Smith recalls a story about Katy, a 15 year old girl, who was harassed by boys at her school. Her classmates had written derogatory statements about her in the boy’s bathroom stalls. Despite efforts made by herself and her parents, the principal did not remove the graffiti, and simply told Katy that no one reads it, anyhow and that it would make her a strong person. (Smith, n.d.) Sexual harassment should not be tolerated anywhere, and especially not in a school setting. According to a report released by the American Association of University Women (AAUW), on average, about 80 percent of adolescent boys and girls report being sexually harassed by their peers. (Smith, n.d.) The report also found that girls are more likely to report feeling self-conscious, embarrassed, and less confident because of the harassment. Girls are also more likely to not participate in class to avoid further harassment. (Smith, n.d.)

“Parents are way overprotective these days; getting picked on by tougher kids and hassling weaker ones is just a part growing up. It is how they learn to deal with the real world.” A statement heard by many people from adults. Unfortunately, this statement is incorrect. Throughout the course of years the US Department of Justice and Education indicate that more than eighty percent (80%) of public elementary and secondary schools report experiencing at least one violent incident ranging from bullying and physical fights to rape and assault with a weapon. (ProQuest Staff) This shows there is a need for change in society. A parent guardian as well as a student would want to be

Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. It can also be defined as repeated use of aggression by one or more people against another person or group. (2) Bullies might abuse their victims verbally, physically, mentally, or psychologically. Bullying may involve name-calling, pushing or hitting, racial comments, or preventing someone from joining a social group,

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. These two boys were known as outcasts and were ridiculed regularly. It’s 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 doe 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

Bullying is an abuse that hurts someone, either emotionally or physically. 3-4 year old children repeat some actions again and again intentionally to hurt someone and irritate other people through those actions or hit someone again and again for the same purpose (McIntyre & Franks, n.d.). In 3-4 year olds, bullying is considered intentional. There are three to four kinds of bullying in early childhood we can identify (physical, verbal, and cyberbullying). There are also some steps through which parents can over-come bullying because if parents don 't stop bullying during early childhood, bullying will increase with the growth of that child (Storey & Slaby, 2013). There are too many problems with bullying, such as stereotyping, which is one of the major issue that will occur if parents do not control their children in early childhood. Children can also develop dysfunctional relationships later in life as a result. For example, a child in her early childhood, whose name is Rena, is constantly being bullied by her cousin, Chris. He bites her arms and pulls her hair because she plays with his toys. Rena may carry her hate towards him from now till the time she grows up and by then she will only see negativity in Chris and would hate him forever. That is if her parents don 't change her perception of Chris while she 's still in the early years of childhood. That 's bullying and that 's only one problem with it. There are so many other issues like this at the age of 3-4.