Skud Book Report

Bullying is very common in most schools in the United States Around three million United States students miss class every month just because of bullying. When Alex Libby shared his story he gave a voice to millions of children who suffer from bullying, because he shared his story it changed the way most people think of the effects of bullying. An example of bullying is there was a girl named Kelby Johnson who was mocked by teachers and students because she was a lesbian, she had to stop playing basketball because her ignorant teammates didn’t want to be near her. Alex Libby is one of the 13 million school children in the United States that is being bullied. Alex’s mom said “ Kid’s back in the day, could go home and be safe you can’t do that a lot now, now you can get bullied online.”

As more and more children go to school, the rates of bullying go up as time goes by. there are many times at which students suffer all the bullying that occurs within their lives. As more schools become aware of the magnitude of the bullying occurring right under their noses, there are rules created to aid the victim. There are various types of bullying and these are created to do one thing, instill superiority among the “stronger” and place a feeling of inferiority. Bullies are the ones who are detrimental to a child’s development.

“Bullying can threaten students’ physical and emotional safety at school and can negatively impact their ability to learn. The best way to address bullying is to stop it before it starts”( Prevention at school). My critical literacy book is about bullying at school. Bullying happens at all age levels and can happen anywhere. For educators the least we can do is make school a safe bully free zone for the students.

Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among people of all ages, but mostly school-age children. Society has been aware of bullying since around 1693, but it was not viewed as a real problem until the 1970s. “While overall incidents of school violence, such as assault and theft, have declined in the last decade, bullying is on the rise.” (qtd in Tyre) The percentage of middle and high school students that have been victimized by bullying went up from 14 percent in 2001 to 32 percent in 2009. (Tyre)

In “Phoebe Prince: Should School Bullying Be a Crime?”, an article written by journalist Jessica Bennet addresses school bullying, the outcomes and the consequences that bullies deserve or not. Above all, this article aims the spotlight on bullying, a 15-year-old who took her own life due to harassment, torment, rumors, physical threats all leading it to being bullied by well-known good students. In any case, the process of being bullied has never been taken into consideration nor importance in the school system or by society in general. “It’s even gotten better over the past decade says Dan Olweus, a leading bullying expert”. However, bullying just does not disappear, it is still an issue that humankind does not have any diligence to the cause

According to the article, Meet the New Sheriff by Suzanne McCabe, “One out of every five students are bullied or are bullies themselves.” This one piece of ground-breaking evidence is enough to destroy our society, and our children’s lives forever. Bullying is a highly discussed topic that American children face every day and it’s near impossible to stop. There are also topics within bullying, like how students become bullies, or how to stop bullying, also which is worse being a bystander or being a bully. And you can’t deny that bullies are almost like mad serial killers, they go around and they don’t stop even if they get into trouble. There are so many topics on bullying that you can’t even count them all. “Everyone has been bullied for

This social issue has been in the spotlight for quite some time now and is the leading cause for students to miss school, become less social, cause self harm and even in some cases death. Bullying and harassment are commonly seen for the most part amongst teenagers who face issues at school, not only does this happen here in the United States, but in schools universally. ¨17% of American students report being bullied 2 to 3 times a month or more within a school semester¨ (Valerie). Although this is mostly seen among teens it can also happen between children and even adults. Bullying can occur everyday throughout Madera High School and no one would be able to acknowledge or stand up for the victim. Vice Principals at MHS have said that more

The overall argument Skloot makes in this book is the lack of recognition and racial injustices pertaining to Henrietta Lacks and her immortal cells. The cells that helped evolve the polio vaccine as well as the advancement towards medicine. Henrietta never gave permission for her tissue to be taken by a man, George Otto Gey, whom she never did meet. He wanted them for his benefits and reasons. Race may have played a role that if she were a white person, Gey would have asked permission to conduct this experiment. The people who were responsible for taking her samples did not pay any respects when Henrietta passed away to her or her family that they discreetly took from. One of the last to know about these cells, HeLa more than 2 decades later,

Bullying can drag people down in the dumps at school, especially when their friends have betrayed them to join the ranks of the bullies. People can rise up from these incidents with their family and friends encouraging them, like the protagonists

Bullying is one of those things that is very common in schools. If you were or know someone who was bullied, you are not alone. Millions of other students from all around the country get bullied each year, and they tend to feel as if they are alone. If you are one of those people, just know that you are not alone. Robert Cormier, the author of “The Chocolate War” uses bullying to display the kind of environment present at Trinity High School. “The Chocolate War” is a book about a bunch of boys who go to a high school called Trinity high school. Trinity has a gang in it known as the Vigils. One of the main leaders of the Vigils is a kid named Archie Costello. Archie is one of those kids who bullies others by using words, and he doesn’t use

Over three million students are victims of bullying every year. Bullies deal a lot of pain to their victims. There are multiple kinds of bullying and there are also different effects. Between the two stories, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury and “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson bullying is shown in different forms while also having different consequences. In Jackson’s story, the bullying has a much greater impact because it hurts a whole community unlike Bradbury’s story which is targeted to one character.

Furthermore, since there are no federal laws that address bullying, “bullying overlaps with discriminatory harassment when it is based on race, national origin, color, sex, age, disability, or religion.”(Federal Laws 1) After the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, forty-eight states put anti-bullying laws into place. All of their laws state that a hardcore investigation must take place, along with reporting it, followed by strict punishment. A victim has to report it happening from the same person or group repeatedly before anything is done about it, in order to suspend or expel the bully. Not many students in school are willing to report any bullying activity, they fear that they too will become bullied, for being a “snitch” or “tattle tale”. Students know that if the bully discovers who told on them, then it will make them more hostile and escalate them to find more cruel way to punish their victim. Even if the bully is expelled from school there is other means of torturing someone.

One of the best fitting themes for the book,”Schooled,” by Gordan Korman is that no one deserves to be bullied and people should be treated with dignity and respect. Many characters in this book either are bullied or bully others. For example, Capricorn Anderson tells Darryl that “Violence is not the answer,” (141). At this time, Darryl and Zach Powers are in a fight and Darryl seems to be getting nowhere fighting with his words so he decides to fight with his fist. Darryl doesn’t realize that Cap is standing in front of him and instead ends up punching Cap in the face rather than his main target, Zach. Cap knows that violence is not going to solve the argument and he tries to explain but that doesn’t get through their heads in time for the

In the article, “True Blue” by: M. Christine Mattise talked about a young girl and the author’s experience in South African schools demonstrate bullying in different diverse schools. While reading the story, the author mostly spoke about how a young girl was bullying from her classmates. The guidance counselor at the school thought that the bulling situations were dealt effectively but in which case several of the children had their set sights on this one particular girl. The victim suffered complete silence, believed the bullies were saying falsely rumors, stating she was slow at learning then the rest of her classmates, or had an obnoxious laugh which made her alone and unacceptance of herself. Some of the things I liked about reading this article; was how structured the article was, the author referencing a young girls experience with bullying, how the author brings her own experience in the story, and how they demonstrate the “hurt-free model techniques.”

Not only are bullied children anxious, depressed, and underachieving during the months and years of their torment, but even years later, they have lower self-esteem as well as painful memories. 7 The picture is somewhat different, but often more ominous, for bullies. Contrary to the public perception that bullies are actually insecure and lonely, at the peak of their bullying they usually have friends who abet, fear, and admire them, and they seem brashly unapologetic about the pain they have inflicted, as they often claim, "all in fun." But their popularity and school success fade over the years, and especially if they are boys, they run a high risk of ending up in prison. In one longitudinal study done by Olweus, by age 24, two-thirds of the boys who had been bullies in the second grade were convicted of at least one felony, and one- third of those who had been bullies in the sixth through the ninth grades were already convicted of three or more crimes, often violent ones. International research likewise finds that children who are allowed to regularly victimize other children are at high risk of becoming violent offenders as adolescents and adults. 8 Unfortunately, bullying during middle childhood seems to be universal: it occurs in every nation that has been studied, is as much a problem in small