The Causes And Effects Of Bullying In High School

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?

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

For a very long time, bullying has been a problem. Many wonder, are these people born that way, or were they turned into a bully from the factors outside of them? This centers around anything from a school shooting to calling fellow peers names and even to a group of firefighters getting into an all-out brawl. The article, “A Bully’s Future, From Hard Life to Hard Time”, written by Jane E. Brody and the novel, Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, prove that bullies are not born, yet they are made. Children are frequently forced into acting certain ways and dressing in certain ways so they can “fit in”. Many kids can feel alone and turn to bullying because they do not want to do what people expect of them. “In a videotape, the young gunmen attributed their acts to retaliation for years of taunting that they said friends and relatives had

To expect greatness in any field of life, it all starts from a place of quality education and that's what America has constantly strived for. School is the place where everyone is given equal opportunity to learn and shape himself or herself into contributing members of society. At the same time each individual’s academic success defines what it means to have a good life. Unfortunately, schools face lots of problems trying to do the right thing. Among major challenges that schools face, bullying has a strong attribution to the poor academic experience among student victims. Today, students still risk being bullied everyday. This paper studies bullying in secondary school with

Bullying is a form of social interaction that is shaped by social norms of youths and adults as well schools and broader society. Bullying used to be thought of a playground hazard, perhaps even an essential rite of the passage. Most of the time have changed and there is increasing recognition that bullying can affect anyone, of any age, from childhood to adulthood, and that it makes lives miserable and unpleasant. Online and offline bullying are often related. A bullying relationship in school often extends to technology devices. Offline bullying is more prevalent among middle school students, where cyber bullying is more common among high school students. Youth involved in bullying whether they are the perpetrator or the victim tend to have

Bullying affects more and more people each day. I beg you to take this issue seriously. There is no excuse for someone in your home, classroom, or on your team to be bullied or to be bullying someone else. It’s not kids just being kids. Middle school and high school is such a hard time for a

American society is made up of many different backgrounds and beliefs. Fortunately, freedom of speech allows us the opportunity to openly discuss our opinions. This can also create debate over social issues, or conflicts that affect numerous amounts of people within the society. Some issues in this society include bullying and having security systems in schools. Bullying has been a problem for teens in middle and high school. Many teens deal with harassment, stalking, bullies, and abuse. This causes the victims to harm themselves and these actions should not be done for a temporary problem. Teens already have a lot on their plate so schools should do more about bullying.

“Does anyone have any questions?” Ms. Smith, the counselor, asked. She was making the rounds around the middle school gathering each class and made sure to know what bullying and abuse was. She wanted everyone to know that we are safe at school and could talk to her. We were all silent in response to her question. Me especially. Looking around my seventh grade home economics class with all of the students gathered around the front of the class, and thinking ‘someone else in here has experienced that’. Not the bullying, the abuse. My palms were sweaty and my face turned red with worry. I first thought ‘that sounds like what I go through at home. I thought all parents did that’. Then my mind raced to ‘What if I were to tell the school?’,

Universities across the country, as the FBI is likely trying to get bag men to roll, are doing what they do best. No, silly. Not educating kids about the pitfalls that come with enrolling in college early. It is playing the victim in a scandal that is actually about adults poaching teenagers by way of cash.

Bullying occurs when one child tries to exert unwarranted influence over another, or the former mistreats the latter in one way or the other often due to a power play struggle between the two. Although schools have made several attempts to fight the vice particularly at the elementary level of education, the problem has persisted in some of the higher grades. According to the research by Swearer, Espelage, Vaillancourt, and Hymel (2010), bullying and teasing incidents increase in middle school environments as they have fewer structures for dealing with the vice. Incidentally, teachers do not see the need to supervise teens as they play, have lunch, or undertake other extracurricular activities as the society no longer considers them delicate. For that reason, middle school children are the most likely to experience or engage in bullying and hence suffer the related psychosocial, physiological, and academic effects.

In example #2 of the bullying cases in which the female middle school student committed suicide after being harassed by her peers over a “sexting” photo, the school demonstrated significant incompetence in both government anti-bullying protocols as well as legal, moral, and ethical imperatives based on bullying research in the field of school psychology. This is shown by the exclusive focus on the student’s sexting photo and not on the later acts of bullying and their psychological implications in an environment populated by young people at a critical stage of cognitive and social development. Although the federal trial court dismissed the parent’s lawsuit based on “the school not being in a custodial relationship with the student at the time of the suicide,” this ruling represents a superficial understanding of the psychological impact of bullying in a school context and the school’s ethical and moral responsibility to develop a comprehensive plan to create an anti-bullying culture among faculty, students, and parents that extends beyond the school year. In the following, I will discuss in detail the specific areas of incompetence demonstrated by the school and how and why this incompetence weakens its moral, ethical, and legal foundation.

Bullying is a big issue that spreads through the world. It can happen to anyone of all ages, and in numerous ways. Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among people that involves a real or perceived power imbalance that either repeats or has the potential to repeat, overtime (Bullying Definition). There are so many factors that tie into bullying such as, why the bully is actually bullying, why the bully chose that victim, or even the effects that occur while the bullying is taking place.

Physical bullying is someone getting hurt like getting punched, pushed, and just all kinds of contact things. Physical Bullying is mostly 61% of students said students shoot others because they have been victims of physical abuse at home. 54% of students said witnessing physical abuse at home can lead to violence in school. According to bullying statistics, 1 out of every 10 students who drops out of school does so because of repeated bullying.There are many types of negative physical interactions that can occur between young people, including fighting, practical jokes, stealing, and sexual harassment.

I believe my scariest moment on campus was before the renovation of the old wooden T building. I was a young teacher back then where the school only have a scant amount of public funding. We did not use to have as many great students as you are all now, smart and tenacious, but mostly are from gangs or impoverished background. I was, in fact, students like you guys and able to earn a good amount of scholarship for my mathematics study at UCLA. I felt powerless as all I could do, back then, was to teach and no one seemed to care about it. I had to teach Pre-Algebra back then and the worst part was that I had to do all the grading on campus and inside the old T building where my classroom used to be. The worst part of this was that I used to be a victim of bullying in high school. Despite of overcoming that fear as I went to college, working here at that time was an intangible spiritual battle.

Teasing is essential to social life. Whether it be to socialize, flirt, or pass the time in playful ways, people tease each other. However, plenty fail to differentiate teasing from bullying, which can lead to confusion with high school students, teachers and parents. Meanwhile, students might not realize that their ‘teasing’ can hurt other students’ feelings. Repeated teasing is bullying and can lead to health problems such as depression and suicide. Suicide stands as the third leading cause of death among adolescents in the United States, and one factor linked to suicidal thoughts is the experience with bullying, provided youth who endure bullying or who bully are at an elevated risk for suicidal attempts or completed suicides (Hinduja & Patchin, 2010). Although a few would argue that words spoken or rumors spread do not necessarily encourage suicide, rumors can lead to social exclusion and other forms of bullying. Given that it is difficult to differentiate teasing from bullying, students become victim to this ‘teasing’ that crosses an ethical line, and will gradually develop depression, which could lead to isolation and probable suicide.