The Pros And Cons Of Bullying

What is bullying? Bullying is where people make fun of someone or something because themselves also because they think different from other people. Bullying kids with special disability is also illegal, because of Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Americans with disability act of 1990.

Every day parents send their children to school, assuming they will be safe. Although many are safe, there are also many that are bullied on a daily basis. In reviewing the definition of the word “bullied,” it fundamentally is unwanted aggressive or harmful behavior with a perceived power imbalance that is directed onto those individuals that are weaker to intimidate them to gain something they want (www.stopbullying.com, 2012).

A huge obstacle that I faced through my life was when I was being bullied in seventh grade. That school year was one of the toughest and scariest time of my life. During that time period I wasn’t really a social person. I was mainly an outsider since I was all alone most of the time. Also I didn't really have the best physical appearance like everyone else, which made me feel like a outcast. I didn’t have anyone to hang with since it was a new school and I had no classes with my friends

During middle school, I used to always get made fun for everything, especially my grades, they used to get called a nerd. But for some reason, everybody wanted the answers to the homework that was due and help on a quiz or test whenever they were stuck. I used to feel very bad of myself because I thought I would never fit in with “cool kids” who just asked me for answers. This made me less confident and have low-self-esteem because I didn’t have any real friends. I triumphed and fought my very hardest to focus on my success and growth. I faced many challenges while doing this, for example my favorite teacher had passed away, I was going through a lot with my family and I didn’t really have friends. It was during these struggles

Bullying is all over the world. Each year there is over 3.2 million victims being bullied. Approximately 160,000 teens skip school every day because of bullying.17% of American students report being bullied 2 to 3 times a month in a year. To many within a school semester. Since 2002, fighting behaviour has increased, especially in grades six to eight. Boys are more likely to start bullying because of being bullied in their past. Girls are most likely to cyberbully. Nearly 43% of kids have been bullied online. According to Gale, cyberbullying is the use of the Internet, smartphones, or other electronic communication devices to spread harmful or embarrassing information about another person, such as talking about people, telling other people’s

I have been bullied my whole life, from first grade to present day(9th grade). Bullying is not fun, it really hurts. They say “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me”. Well I’m here to tell you that’s a lie. I get bullied everyday about everything; me being overweight, how dark I am, how deep my voice is. Everyday I go through this, but I have learned to deal with this. The only reason people bully you is because they're jealous of you, so that means you're doing something right. So remember ,”Be Happy, Be Healthy”. So Slay till your hair turns gray.(Anonymous 2017)The situation that this person is in is that everyday she wakes up and goes through crap and deals with it because she is already used to and she doesn't

Imagine being subject to mistreatment and vilification; being vulnerable to physical or emotional attack or harm by someone who is in a more powerful position than yourself. Now consider this engagement of hostility or opposition in your work environment. While not unheard of in the workplace, many organizations do not condone such behavior. In fact, under federal law aggressive behavior in which someone intentionally and repeatedly causes another person injury or discomfort is illegal when it violates federal or state laws prohibiting harassment in the workplace based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, or disability (“Harassment.”). For the employees not falling into this protected status, most have the maturity level to properly handle the situation to safeguard themselves. However, when such behavior takes place in a school environment, it is considered bullying-repeated, unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children involving a real or perceived power imbalance (“What Is Bullying.”). Like workplace harassment, school bullying is a destructive behavior enacted upon victims who do not deserve to be acted toward in that way. Five states have no sanctions established for bullying in their current anti-bullying laws. Twelve states include a criminal sanction for bullies, ranging from school suspension to jail time. The only state with no law to address bullying is Montana. State and local lawmakers have taken action to prevent bullying and

The effects from bullying or being bullied all depends on the person and how they deal with things. “Contrary to accepted ruffian-scholarship, the more popular a middle- or high-school kid becomes, the more central to the social network of the school, the more aggressive the behavior he or she engages in” (Luscombe par 2). This confirms that people change people. When someone gets into an activity or group and this could have either a positive or negative effect on the person. Depending on the others in the group, it would most likely be a negative. You could be an innocent little girl who just joined a new group hoping to make new friends, but everyone else in the group are just bullies who seem to not have a care in the world for others’ happiness. “Kids and teens who were bullied were 2.55 times as likely to attempt suicide than their counterparts who had not been victimised” (Kaplan par 11). In other words, the victim is hurt more than the person who was not bullied and is more likely to want to be dead. They are more likely to want to kill themselves. It doesn’t matter how you were bullied, it’s the fact that you were bullied in the first place. Just because you’re being bullied does not mean that you are the only one being affected, the bullies are affected as well; they might have social difficulties in the future (Wilhelm par 5). It’s not just the victim who gets affected from being bullied, the bully himself gets affected as well, but in a slightly different manner. Everyone will be affected by the people they are around a lot. They may be influenced by good people, or by bad people. It all depends on your

What if you were terrified to go to your school every day? 160,000 students miss school everyday because they get bullied and are scared of what will happen (“Bullying Statistics”). Bullying has been a major problem in schools for too long. Students should not be scared to go to a place that is supposed to be safe and where they can express themselves. Students that bully never get the punishment they deserve which causes them to continue to act. When you go to school, you should know that if you are getting treated in a horrific way, the people who were treating you that way will get punished. Students who bully should be suspended from school.

In middle school, I was bullied by some kids for being different than them. I don’t know why they were so mean but after a while, everything they were saying about me started growing on me. I got used to it and now I still agree with it to this day. I didn’t realize it back then, but it would lead to something in the future.

For most of my time in school, I have been bullied for reasons known to me. Of course as most children who get bullied, I did not stand up for myself. I believe that not having the ability to stand up for myself has molded me into an insecure person. I had to get over my fear of hurting others feelings to stand up for myself. I got over my fear by standing up to my best friend.

Bringing back when I was in elementary/middle school at Soaring Heights Charter School. There were a lot of bullies in my school. I was one of the kids being bullied. I was mainly bullied because of my learning disability. I was also bullied because I was really short back then as well as doing nasty habits. Because of these reasons, I had limited friends and had social issues with talking and making friends.

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.

In the next 7 minutes, a child in the U.S. will be bullied. It may be the son or daughter of someone you know. Worse, it may be your own. Meanwhile, only four out of 100 adults will step in to stop it. And only 11 percent of the child’s peers might do the same. The rest 85 percent will do nothing. Every day in America, more than 160,000 children miss school out of fear of being bullied, according to National Education Association estimates. Bullying takes many forms, ranging from the seemingly innocuous name-calling to the more harmful cyberbullying to severe physical violence. It happens everywhere, at all times to the most vulnerable of kids, especially those who are obese, gay or have a disability. And besides the physical, emotional and psychological tolls it imposes on victims, bullying produces adverse socioeconomic outcomes. The Association for Psychological Science recently found that those who are bullies, victims or both are more likely to experience poverty, academic failure and job termination in their adulthood. In addition, they are likelier to commit crime and abuse drugs and alcohol. For schools, the financial burden caused by bullying is not to be ignored, either. According to a National Association of Secondary School Principals report, the average public school can incur more than $2.3 million in lost funding and expenses as a result of suspensions, expulsions, vandalism, alternative placement and lower attendance. There are different

Bullying, a social issue that has been most associated with adolescent aggressive behavior from one to another, has expanded from the realms of the school halls to the Internet. But as laws have been passed and legislation enacted, are these adolescent populations still vulnerable? This paper describes the definition of bullying, power imbalance or struggle, public reaction, policies, public laws or administration rules, implementation of social welfare programs, actual impact, legislative intended impact, public expectations and affected populations.