The Necessity of Anti Bullying Laws

Bullying has become a national epidemic. Although it was once considered a rite of passage; parents, and educators now see bullying as a behavior that is likely to produce emotional and social problems during the teen years and later in life for both the victim and the aggressor. Being a teenage bully can also be an indicator of future troubles. Bullying is a violation of human rights and is criminal, especially in cases when suicide is a result. State lawmakers are willing to criminalize bullying behavior. However, I believe that throwing bullies in jail might not be the best remedy. In doing so may not be effective in controlling the behavior of students or improve the school atmosphere. I believe both the bully's and the victim's parents

Bullying is something that has been going on in schools and communities for centuries. There are however, laws that have been put into place to help prevent bullying. These laws were first started in 1964. However, “under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not directly cover religion, often religious based harassments are based on shared ancestry of ethnic characteristics which is covered.”(Federal Laws 1) Laws started changing around 1995 that helped reinforce what schools should be doing to prevent bullying. Bullying is defined as a behavior that encompasses threats, physical aggression, teasing, and harassment. Since bullying laws

Bullying is defined as mean, hurtful behavior that occurs repeatedly in a relationship with an imbalance of power or strength. A bully is a person who uses superior strength to intimidate someone, typically to force him or her to what one wants. There is four common types of bullying, verbal, physical, relational, cyber bullying.

Bullying by its definition is the unwelcomed, unwanted, hostile behavior among school aged children and adolescents that involves a preconceived notion

Bullying is a problem that is on the rise in society; however, many individuals have a distorted view of what bullying entails. Usually when someone thinks of bullying, they assume that it is a standard part of a child’s life. This view, on the contrary, is erroneous. Bullying is actually abnormal behavior, many times, leaving victims with a dismantled self identity. Since some people do not understand the consequences of bullying, the actions of the bully often go unnoticed and are perceived as “kids being kids”. The issue of bullying goes deeper than that nevertheless. Despite the erroneous views that many individuals hold towards bullying, it is still a distortion of normal behavior in children.

“With ignorance comes fear, from fear comes bigotry. Education is the key to acceptance”. Kathleen Patel. Bullying can take place in or out of school and in person or through other means of communication. Bullying can be verbal or physical, and when physical, it can be directed against a person, a person’s property, or be used to intimidate, rather than inflict damage to the person or his or her property. Verbal bullying can include name calling threatening or teasing someone or making obscene remarks or spreading rumors about someone. Bullying can be peer to peer or be done by younger people to older people or vice versa. There are many causes in which the government should put laws to prevent bullying. Make children safe in school, eliminate hostile environment and prevent suicides are the three causes for the state or federal government to put laws in school to prevent bullying.

Bullying is something that goes on in everyday life. It happens at school, at home, out in public, everywhere. Bullying includes behaviors that makes others feel inadequate, like harassment, gossip, name calling, and demeaning speech.

After everything I have learned from class and the readings, I am confident in my opinon that our country and it citizens alike place a high value children and there lives. The reason I believe this is because of not only the laws we have in place to ensure the safety of children but the laws we have in place to ensure they finish there education. I always seem to hear from the older generation how our kids are the future of our country. That they are the ones who will shape what happens in this world. Our newest generations are so important to us that we have put anti-bullying laws in place to ensure they grow up without fear of dealing with that kind of hardship. Our kids are protected even more than adults. It is without a doubt that our country puts a

— Val McDermid Bullying is any negative aggressive behavior by another youth or group of youths who could be siblings, student classmates, or current dating partners that involves an observed or perceived power imbalance and is repeated multiple times or is highly likely to be repeated. Bullying usually inflicts harm or distress on the targeted youth including physical, psychological, social, or educational harm.

Many children are reporting the problem of bullying to their parents and it is making an effect on many other bullies and many states have anti-bullying laws in the US so that makes a huge impact on bullying. In “ More cyberbullying victims seeking help from their parents, poll shows” written by the Associated press , the articles shows many strategies to prevent and stop bullying. The article states that, “ It wasn’t until Sarah’s mom saw the messages that the girls told her everything.” Many children are telling their parents that they are being harassed or being bullied electronically. When parents step in to stop bullying it makes an effect on bullying because then the parents go talk to a Teacher or the Principal, then that bullied is

Bullying is a very serious issue that is happening to many students across the world. More than one out of every five students have reported that they were once bullied. People have seen how much bullying affects people; with a study showing at least half of suicide attempts relating to bullying. But are we too quick to cry bully? Bullies should not be legally punished, because many times meaningless teasing is mistaken for bullying and bullies are usually far too young to realize the consequences of their actions.

If you are a bully or have been bullied then you should know how bullying feels like.Bullying is very negative and creates major problems in our society, such as causing people to commit suicide, switch up their personality, or don’t go to school.Physical bullying happens when the bully uses physical power or violence to intimidate the person.Bullying has been treated as a part of growing up, or something that will toughen up young people as they grow up throughout life.Research has shown that students in America who are bullied can develop many emotional issues.Recently there have been a lot of suicides blamed on bullying and caused peoples lives over it.These must be stopped and the only way to do so is by installing preventing bullying programs

The general definition of bullying is, “… [This] states that a person is being bullied when he or she is exposed repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more other persons” (Aluede et al. 3). There are two different variations in bullying type such as direct and

It is only in the recent years that attention has turned toward the widespread problem of bullying, especially in schools, and that bullying is identified as a serious problem that merits intervention and research (Coy). Therefore, relatively little effort has been made to overcome or address the problem, which still remains a widespread social vice. This paper purports to illustrate how, despite efforts made to rectify the situation, bullying still remains rampant, and is getting worse.

Bullying has been escalating to a certain degree that it has affected as many as 160,000 students that reported staying home from school every day, because they were afraid of being bullied (www.stompoutbullying.org). Bullying does not only stops one from wanting to go to school, it also makes one feel anxious, insecure, and unhappy at school, isolated and at times severely depressed (Young, Shin Kim, and Leventhal). Schools must have better resources available to students; this includes the victim and the bully. The victim should have both better counseling and stricter laws to protect them. Bullies also need counseling due to research which states “that many bullies tend to come from families where parents are more