Taking a Look at Bullying

Bullying is a very touchy subject for people to talk about. It deals with a lot of mental, physical, and emotional damage. Bullying is violent and unwelcoming behavior among various different aged children in school that involves a lack of power for one kid and a lot of power for another. The behavior of a bully is repeated numerous times over time and becomes more aggressive as the path goes on. The bully has an imbalance of power over the one being bullied. They bully uses their power for giving out embarrassing information, control, physical strength, popularity, and harming others. Kids who are being bullied and bullying others have serious lasting problems throughout their lifetime. Bullying is becoming a major issue in today 's society and somebody needs to make a stop to it.

Many people believe bullying is a part of growing up. Some believe every kid will experience bullying at one point or another in life. The time is not taken to think about how it might affect an individual in the future. Bullying shows to affect people’s mental and physical health overtime. When someone is bullied overtime it would have a larger impact on their later life. Bullying can deteriorate both an individual’s mental and physical health in a alarming way. The community should help to learn and provide information on identifying bullying and the affects of bullying. Bullying is extremely toxic to an individual, it may later negatively affect physical formation and function of the brain and how an individual may deal with stress. As a society this topic needs to be more discussed.

Bullying is an issue that has been overlooked for many years because of students being frightened to tell that they are being bullied. Many teachers, administrators, and school counselors underestimate the amount of bullying that takes place within schools. The behavior of bullying has impacted so many students’ lives to the point of causing a student to want to cause harm to his or her self or others. Many students that bully threaten their victims by telling them if they decide to tell an adult they will get beaten up worse. Bullying can cause a student to suffer from emotional distress that interferes with the student’s learning ability.

Bullying is a growing epidemic in today’s society and has become a pressing social and educational concern. It is often dismissed as typical adolescent behavior but ignoring the problem could be detrimental to the bully, the person being bullied, and even those who stand by witnessing the unkind acts but do nothing about it. Bullying can hinder academic, social, and emotional development and because it manifests in different forms, it is important to recognize the signs and address it with all parities immediately.

Bullying is a big problem in the United States it is in many schools and states. Many young teenagers are under emotional stress, self conscious about themselves, and even commit suicide. Bullying keeps on growing and getting worse in schools. Many schools are talking and teaching kids about bullying and how to avoid the situation, who to talk to ,and how to deal with bullies. If more bullying organizations go to schools it would help the communities be better. (Working in Community)

You might have heard the saying ¨Treat others as you want to be treated.¨ Now most people don´t listen to this saying, which can lead up to bullying. You might not hurt yourself, but you´re hurting others. This is why we need to work together to make a difference about bullying.

Imagine that you are in school, walking down the hallway and see a bunch of guys bullying and harassing another kid. Do you go defend the kid or do you stay a bystander like all the other people you are surrounded by? Most kids just walk by thinking that if they don’t stop it they’re preventing bullying, but it’s just making the problem worse. People need to how to speak up from bullies, and how to speak up for others who are being bullied.

Has anyone seen movies were they portray a child more than perfect? Has the charisma, intelligence, beauty, ambition, care, and has a successful life that everyone would like to have? Of course an individual will never be perfect, they will always possess good and bad traits. For an individual to find true identity and uniqueness, they have to go through the process of human development. Each person goes through different paths in life trying to explore the world to seek out their identity. Life goes through many changes, from infancy to late adulthood were there are trials and tribulations. An individual is influenced throughout life by multiple factors such as different styles of parenting, social stereotypes, ethnicities, and gender.

Bullying. This word has meaning for so many people. Some have been bullied. Some have witnessed it. Some tried to stop it. Some are parents of children who are bullied. Some even contemplate suicide because of it. Bullying is something that occurs almost on a daily basis in many schools in the United States as well as around the nation. While the principles of many schools claim to help the situation, they allow it to continue or say “kids will be kids”. Since when was it ok to be pushed around or beaten down physically, emotionally, and mentally in one of the few places that a student should feel as if they are safe?

When someone uses higher strength to influence, intimidate or force the victim to do what they want is known around the world as a bully. Bullying has become a big problem in the U.S. as days go by it seems like there is nothing that can stop this problem. There are different types of bullying and different places that bullying can occur. There is physical bullying, verbal bullying, relational aggression, cyber bullying, sexual bullying, and prejudicial bullying. But the most common ones are physical bullying, cyber bullying, and relational bullying. Bullying can also occur in different places like at home, at school, at parks, at workplaces, etc. In recent time periods, all around the country the number of suicides among teens have been rising, unfortunately due to bullying. To protect the students more, the department of education should start to apply some more strict rules against bullying. Although bullying can make someone raise their confidence, the victim is helpless and insecure so this problem needs to be stopped as a result, the possible victims can feel safe and protected out in the public.

28% of U.S. students in grades 6-12 report they have experienced bullying, and 30% admit to bullying others. Bullying is a topic that is constantly on the forefront of multiple agendas especially in the education world. Information is now becoming available about the effects of bullying, and now the issue is being brought to surface often focusing on how schools are dealing with issue of bullying.

In this world we see a constant issue of bullying it is an everyday issue that affects a lot of victims each day. Bullying causes many illness and disorders which can lead to many issues.

Many people do not realize how serious bullying has become. If you look at statistics suicides due to bullying have increased over just a few short years. This has become a very big problem for not only the victim but the bully as well as it affect both of them. School bullying is mentally destructive to not only the victims, but bullies because of the harmful words, harassment, and physical violence involved as well as the consequences for the bully.

Ever since this incident administrators have taken serious actions and the bullying has dramatically decreased. Students ceased to create rumors about him. They don’t physically abuse him or call him names in front of his peers anymore. However, he still gets talked about behind his back but of course it’s not as bad as before. He visits his counselor on a weekly basis and things have gotten much better. I’m glad that I stuck around to be there for him while he struggled with such a horrible time. We all need someone to be there and care for us. We all need a shoulder to cry on every once in a while. Bullying is happening in schools all across America and teens need to start helping those who need it the most. We need to start taking action and stop being scared to fight for what we think is right. I admit that maybe before I lived these instants of bullying with my friend that I would have been scared. It is scary to stand up to someone that is intimidating. The fear of being a victim yourself can overpower your desire to step in and help. But if one person steps up, others will follow and the bullying chain will end.

It can be proven that, “with 50 percent of kids saying that they have been bullied at least once within a month,” bullying is a large issue (Poon). This accounts for approximately 24.9 million children in the U.S. (“Fast Facts”). Bullying can cause mental health issues, personality shifts, and substance abuse if taken to extremes. These problems developed as a child can carry on through the rest of their lives if the bullying does not cease or if the bullying is traumatic enough. This can also affect the victim and the bully more intensely as they try to make decisions later on in life such as mistreating others or allowing others to mistreat them. Bullying has a negative effect that continues even after the act is ended due to heightened stress and lowered self-worth.