The Rise Of Bullying And Harassment At Madera High

Bullying, often labeled as just a part of growing up, is a major problem in America’s schools today. Although it is such a hot topic in our country right now, it is also a long ignored problem that only seems to worsen. The complication with bullying is that no one quite understands it, and it is not taken seriously. The definition of bullying is an overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people. In more simple terms, bullying is not a onetime incident; it is repetitive and happens among individuals when there is an imbalance of power. Statistically, every one in six children are bullied, and this cannot continue to take place. Every child has the right to feel safe and have the pursuit of being happy in which bullying completely takes those rights away.

One of the grimmest, ongoing issues present within all latter-day educational institutions and public facilities is the problem and complications of a recently reinvigorated phenomenon: bullying. Bullying can be defined—and entails—as any of the broad gamut of aggressive, intimidating, and/or negative behaviours that are expressed on behalf of an individual or group towards one or more other people who consequently experience forms of mistreatment and associated sentiments of pain (this behaviour is generally associated with young adults and children). Albeit many younger students have neglected the genuine importance of this issue as a result of many unrealistic, specious clichés and stereotypes present within the media coupled with feelings of nonchalance and lethargy, the problem of bullying has only been aggravated through the inception of the Internet and the concomitant repercussion of cyberbullying: “2 in 5 parents report their child has been involved in a cyberbullying

Madera High is an ordinary high school in a fairly small town of about 60,000 people. Although the usual picture of bullying portrayed in the media does not occur here, there are still other forms of bullying and harassment that happen often. Cyberbullying has become the new form of harassment that teens use to bully other students. Social media is now the platform bullies prefer to use rather than the physical confrontation that bullying used to be. Through recent years, it has become an epidemic that has taken over the internet and social networks. It has made it even harder for students to get away from the bully or the person harassing them. At Madera High the amount of bullying seen at school by other students and staff is fairly low,

As it was said before, not only were the staff members at Madera High School given a survey on bullying, harassment, and cyberbullying, but the students were given a survey as well. This survey was given to the students to know what is going on in their life in terms of them being bullied or not, how it has made them feel, what they have done when being in a situation like that, or if they really know the difference between bullying and online harassment. Students are not aware if they are harassing someone or not because mostly everyone calls people by meaningful names in which they think it is fine to call others considering the fact that it is taken as a joke, but others actually take it as an insult. When asked if the students knew the

This social issue has been in the spotlight for quite some time now and is the leading cause for students to miss school, become less social, cause self harm and even in some cases death. Bullying and harassment are commonly seen for the most part amongst teenagers who face issues at school, not only does this happen here in the United States, but in schools universally. ¨17% of American students report being bullied 2 to 3 times a month or more within a school semester¨ (Valerie). Although this is mostly seen among teens it can also happen between children and even adults. Bullying can occur everyday throughout Madera High School and no one would be able to acknowledge or stand up for the victim. Vice Principals at MHS have said that more

Madera High school in its past years have dealt with many cases of bullying and harassment among the students on the campus. A hand full of students from Madera High stated that people being harassed and picked on was something that was seen often on social media and up in personal. This became a major problem when social media such as Myspace were first made. This was the beginning of online harassment and bullying. Cyber bullying isn’t something that other people should just look past and ignore because people take their lives from it. People don’t notice what’s going on in the life of a victim that is bullied. Nowadays mostly all of Madera high school students have social media and physical bullying is more rare to see because most of the

Most kids say that they don’t see bullying around school. In just Minnesota alone there is talk about bullying and how to prevent it. Sen. Franken states, “Nine out of 10 LGBT kids are harassed or bullied in school. One-third report having skipped school in the last month because they felt unsafe” (Shah 14). Kids should not feel unsafe to go to school. School is supposed to be a safe place to go and if someone needs help there are supposed to be people there to guide them. Franken adds, “But the sad fact is that our federal laws are failing” (Shah 14). Laws have been made to try to stop bullying, but bullying continues to exist. This shows how out of control bullying is becoming.

not so aware of what happens when the teachers or an adult is not around. In the staff survey, when asked, Economics and Civics teacher, Mrs. Larsen, the question, “If you ever saw cyber harassment or cyber bullying taking place here at our school would you intervene?” she responded with, “ Yes! Always, again cyberbullying/harassment is hard to see/ know about.” Staffs from Madera High are not always aware of what students do before or after class, also students most of the time are too scared to tell a staff of what is occurring.

Schools today are constantly updating their code of conduct due to cases involving cyberbullying. The average teenager has a social media account and can easily access the account at any given time. Many teenagers rely on social media for various reasons which then increases the potential for cyber bullying to occur. Cyberbullying can be seen on such media like, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat. Cases of cyberbullying between teenagers have created a great dilemma upon parents and school districts. Since online bullying is not done face to face, the bully feels more daring and aggression towards the victim. Most of these cases have ended in tragedy and were not taken care of correctly by administration at schools. Bullying and harassment

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

High school bullying has been a trend in America since Mark Twain was learning how to tie his shoes. It has been depicted in many movies and books how the antagonist (the bully) downgrades and picks on to the protagonist (the victim) throughout the protagonist's high school life in order for him or her to stand up to their bully and defeat them in a triumphant conclusion. Students in high school have been made aware of this tasteless trend in various ways during their school years and are very knowledgeable on the fact that bullying is wrong. Thus, informing this argument's readers on why bullying is fallacious is as ineffective as a person informing another person that the sky is blue. This public argument is going to attempt to persuade its'

Madera High School could be seen as if not a lot is going on however, going into details the staff explain how bullying is a part of a problem that happens on campus. When it asks what is the difference between cyberbullying and online harassment and individual state's “Yes I know the difference between cyberbullying and online harassment. Cyberbullying is when individuals pick on a weaker person online and attack them where as harassment is when an individual bother a person of equal power intentionally”. Cyberbullying is also a way that students in Madera High School get bullied, it demonstrates that 212 students have been involved of saying something negative about someone online, including subtweeting. This not only proves that students

Kids get bullied most every day. Most young women get harassed online by other students. People may ask what cyberbullying is. Well cyberbullying is where they use technology to harass and target one another. Girls have a higher risk for online harassment. Boys are more likely to be bullied offline. Cyberbullying is a serious crime in the United States. If any teacher or principle finds out that your harassing anybody then they can be suspended from school and kick out from any sports. All bully’s come from any social media. While bullying others on the internet, bulls would create a blog or a website. Then they would threaten teens by images they would have sent them. They would send them though text,

Most people think that bullying and harassment are the same thing, but in reality, both have different meanings. Bullying is a more physical abuse where the bully does it to an acquaintance, but does not have to be a personal vendetta; it can happen to anyone the bully knows. The bullying is done mostly for the acceptance of friends and is done in a comfortable environment, usually around a group of friends. On the other hand, harassment is not typically physical and purposely done to a certain person so that the person being harassed is embarrassed and rejected by others. Bullying and harassment are serious issues with teenagers around the world. In the United States, bullying and harassment has become a nationwide epidemic within tenenagers

Bullying is a wide spread epidemic in our country. Almost everyone will be bullied at some point in their life. Bullying happens for many reasons and can have fatal consequences if it is not handled.