While being part of a sports team during your high school tenure is the most meaningful aspect to a student-athlete time there, identically in the same fashion hazing is often considered one of the most significant hidden problem. Sometimes it can be looked on as kids being kids but when a negative effect formed by overseers, it alters the perception of the situation. Hazing has been the essential point of concerns when it comes to school tradition or even harmless fun within the programs. Challenging the importance of these involvements, poses as a risk of physical and mental harm for many individuals. The explanations obtained information from the articles that provided an understanding of what is at stake when these circumstances keep …show more content…
In addition the larger schools are often seen as a place where the students can be overlooked and even engaged in more freedom to act in violent ways. This allows the understanding that “these conditions are hypothesized to create a disorganized and devalued and teachers are less able to monitor and supervise their students” (Klein, 1). A larger school environment showcases the behaviors that are essential to the disobedience that occurs when circumstances such as bullying and hazing are involved. ON the contrary the smaller schools have the ability to have a more secure capabilities to manage the misbehaviors because of the size being less significant. Smaller schools “are regarded as more orderly environments where students feel better supported, safer, and more willing to comply with school rules” (Klein, 1). The closely knitted community feel of a small school is what ensures that the size of the school does matter, however being at a bigger school provides emotions that seem distant and aggressively contrasting of the smaller schools. The main perspectives are explained throughout the emphasis of the cultures of the larger school being about effectiveness and the smaller about supportiveness. For example, larger schools are compared to urban low-income populations which raises the occurrence of the issues at hand. While smaller schools are usually in suburban areas or even private schools that are middle to high class income. The article states that “higher
A prominent reason why high school sports is detrimental to academic accomplishments of students is because of how sports act as a powerful distractor to education. When a student starts to play sports in school, their mindset shifts from being focused on learning to now focusing on improving at their sport of choice. Sports are just another thing that consumes the time and attention of people. This simple fact clearly presents a problem because it means less effort can be dedicated towards academics. A perfect example of how sports teams magnify this effect of reducing academic effort is presented in the article “Why Student Athletes Continue to Fail” when it explains “Tight-knit student athletes will seek ways of fitting into a culture that they perceive as neglecting academics (by defaulting into majors of dubious merit and spending less time doing homework), knowing that their habits are observed by teammates” (Oppenheimer). Clearly, this statement demonstrates that school sports create an environment where students feel pressured to adopt a callous attitude towards academics. Since sports teams form a strong bond between the members of the team, the impact of peer pressure is emphasized because each student wants to behave like the others simply to feel connected to the group.
Imagine a world without hazing. I believe organization could be creative and find new exciting ways to make students work to get into the club. Academically, community service, a drawing, or donates to the organization. A world without hazing would reduce lives, value morals, no stress, no humiliation, and no unwanted done to the human body. “Statistics show 1.5 million high school students are hazed each year; 47% of students came to college already having experienced hazing, 40% of athletes who reported being involved in hazing behaviors report that a coach or advisor was aware of the activity; 22% report that the coach was involved, Nine out of ten students who have experienced hazing behavior in college do not consider themselves to have been hazed, and 36% of students say they would not report hazing primarily because "there's no one to tell," and 27% feel that adults won't handle it right. Hazing should be banned because of what the pledges have to endure. Hazing is indeed a serious issue, particularly in the schools and colleges, and will have serious repercussions. Even survivors of hazing are not safe from it; the scars, psychological or physical, will not fade completely. We as a nation have to come together and banned hazing from our
This study had five main variables. First, the “inclusion climate,” or how unified the students felt their team was. This was measured by three questions on a 1 to 6 scale. Next was “willingness to cheat,” or the perceived readiness of fellow teammates to be dishonest, which was measured by a 1 to 5 scale question. Also measured was the “college choice satisfaction,” or how content the students felt about their choice of college. This was measured by three questions on a 1 to 7 scale. Next was “ethical leadership,” or whether the student felt that the coach was running the team with positive morals. It was measured by six questions on a 1 to 5 scale. Last was “abusive coaching behavior,” or how the students felt about their coach’s amount of abuse or lack thereof. This was assessed with three questions on a 1 to 5 scale. The perceived ethical climate of the school (measured via three 1 to 5 scale items), as well as the gender of the team, how much media attention the team
The alleged facts that gave rise to the plaintiff’s case was that during the University of Virginia’s (UVA) Men Swim team introduction or ‘welcome week’, the plaintiff along with other freshmen UVA swimmers were subjected to hazing that included acts such as, physical and mental abuse, force of obsessive alcoholic beverage intake, false imprisonment, and threats of sodomy against the freshmen swimmers. According to the plaintiff, if the underclassmen did not comply with any of the requests or duties that the upperclassmen told the underclassmen swimmers to complete, they were forced into dangerous and life threatening acts. However, when the head coach was informed about the heinous acts being performed by the upperclassmen, the coach simply informed the plaintiff that he could practice separately from the team. Unfortunately, the coach informed the plaintiff practicing during a different time from the rest of the team would not guarantee protection from any future attacks. These acts against the plaintiff from the upperclassmen of swimmers on
Through looking at the opinions of students I realized that people will do hazing only if it doesn’t affect their body. But this doesn’t make any sense because hazing can be presented in many ways. Also the fact that you are lowering yourself for others in higher position of you, just to be accepted by a club is a form of control, either if you go through physical abuse or etc.
Brent had just begun college in a completely new state. He was unfamiliar with his new town and was not well acquainted with the alumni of his new school. He hadn't always been very social or “easy going” so he felt that college was his time to expand his horizons. During rush week he took the opportunity to pledge to a fraternity. Delta Zeta Pi promised brotherhood, a nice place to live, and many social opportunities. At first, everything seemed fine, then, when he least expected it the fraternity took a turn for the worst. All of a sudden he wasn't amongst “brothers” he was amongst people who wanted him to show his “devotion” to his fraternity through pain and embarrassment. When he signed up for Delta Zeta Pi he had no idea that he was signing away his pride, his ability to think for himself and his life. He did what he was told and took the punishment when he didn't. Whether it was drinking excessive amounts of alcohol or having boiling water poured onto his skin, he did it. Brent did what he was told and told no one about it, fearing he might be shunned by his “brothers” or that he might receive something even worse as a punishment. If he had decided to report the violence he could have potentially saved his life, instead he chose to protect his “brothers” who did not share his protective instincts when they left him for dead in an alley after he blacked out from alcohol poisoning due to forced excessive drinking never to wake up again. Brent, like many other people,
To help me understand the definition of what hazing is. Hazing has defined as; “any activity expected of someone joining a group that humiliates, degrades, abuse or endangers, regardless of the person’s willingness to participate. This does not include activities such as rookies carrying the balls, the parties with community games, or going out with your teammates, unless an atmosphere of humiliation, degradation, abuse or danger arises” (Yvo, et al., 2015). For example, hazing practices are forcing people to "prove" that they are worth to join a group or organization. Some people don’t know that hazing even happens in middle, the high school also in college.
Hazing has become a very popular in teens and young adults in colleges and sport activities in recent years. Hazing is the practice of rituals and other activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group (hazingprevention.org). Hazing occurs in athletics and Greek-letter organizations, and includes behaviors that are abusive, dangerous, and potentially illegal (hazingprevention.org). Many people think that hazing is just playing harmless pranks among new members of teams and fraternities/sororities groups bring them closer together but, it puts person being hazed in great physical and mental danger (greeks.cofc.edu). Hazing endangers the physical safety of a person, produces mental and physical discomfort, and causes fright, humiliation, and degrades an individual, society needs to learn about hazing and stop it from happening.
Ten men were arrested for their participation; although one fraternity member was far more aggressive than the others, none of the ten men intervened to stop the hazing.
In an informational article by the contributors of the U.S. Department of Human Health & Human Services, “About School Violence” explains school violence, and gives background on the topic. When most people hear school violence, people will think about guns and school shooters. However in the article, school violence includes fighting, bullying, electronic aggression, gang violence, and weapon use. Also, school violence doesn’t have to be in school, it could be at a school event or it could be at a trip going to a school event. This article was written for people above the age of 10 because these acts of violence start or has the capability to start impacting their lives.
School violence has become of the most pressing educational problems in the United States. Gang violence and high profile shootings across the nation cause concern within schools. Communities struggle to understand why these events take place and how they can be prevented. The overwhelming response to solve the issue of violence in schools is the increasing societal pressure to execute zero tolerance. Zero tolerance is driven by the educational philosophy, policies, and practices of school communities. Stakeholders expect schools to be a safe place for staff and for students. Stakeholders assume that a positive classroom environment, safe students, and school enjoyment are conditions necessary to create a positive climate where learning takes place. This assumption can be backed with research. A calm classroom environment, teachers’ management of disruptive behavior, and students’ view of school safety are factors that have been found to directly correlate with student achievement in the classroom (Ma & Willms, 2004). Safety and a feeling of not being threatened during school hours have been found to be important to students’ achievement. Failure to remove a disruptive or an unruly student from school has been found to have a negative impact on achievement and creates a great risk to school staff and students (Garbarino et al., 1992). Teachers cannot teach and students cannot learn in an
Often times hazing is a big problem we see occurring in our society. Whether it is occurring within a sports team, sorority, school, friends, or even a group of co-workers, we hear about it on a relatively frequent basis. Often times hazing stories are justified by the person committing the act of hazing and over dramatized by the media. Conducting a full study on whether hazing actually exists and the multiple ways it exists can help members of our society to further understand the implications of the action. Throughout this study the definition of hazing has been explored as well as superfluous examples to prove hazing is prominent in our society and laws and actions taken against
Some say hazing builds teams. They say "Initiations require mutual support and bonding among members."(Student life 2011) They need consent on both sides and people willingly do this. "Those more seniors know that the initiates wish to join with such intensity that they are willing to let themselves get humiliated."(Student life 2011) Also not all hazing is bad. They only report negative hazing incidents that leave people dead. We don’t know all the positive examples. Like my dad. He went through hazing to get into his fraternity. He didn’t get beaten or forced to drink. But, he had to learn things about his fraternity brothers. He got to know them and created friends for life.
Throughout all levels of sports, there has always been an unfortunate tradition of hazing the first year students. Hazing happens in high school, college, as well as the pros. In most cases hazing is a harmless act to embarrass someone, but can also lead to serious damage to a team or group. There have been cases where hazing has gone as far as having to take players to the hospital or even death. Almost all serious cases of hazing involve beating or forcing someone to consume an insane amount of alcohol. Hazing has been looked at as a harmless way of getting a player used to the team, but can be done in awful ways if the players cannot control themselves.
Hazing is the act of causing strenuous, often humiliating, tasks of straining physical strength for initiation. Many people protest the idea of hazing due to the recurring horror stories that have been told throughout the years. In universities all across the country, there have been many incidents of hazing that have been taken too far. A lot of people experience or have experienced hazing first hand, and there are also many cases where hazing in fraternities, sororities, or clubs has ultimately lead to the death of young adults.