The School Setting And Bully Prevention Programs

    There are many ways to reduce bullying in schools, a few of those being immediate consequences for bullying, talking with the parents of the bully, and making sure the school is well monitored.  However, the first step in ending bullying starts with the bullied child reporting the bullying, but before a student reports an act of bullying, they must first feel that they are in a safe and comfortable environment.  Kathryn Whitted and David Dupper provide a few suggestions on how schools can make their students feel safer in their article, “Best Practices for Preventing or Reducing Bullying in Schools”.   Whitted and Dupper, through extensive research, found that students are more likely to report bullying if there

The purpose of this study is to identify the most prevalent forms of bullying on a high school campus and identify which strategies are most effective to prevent or respond to bullying. The study will also identify the most effective strategies to improve student achievement and attendance for those students who have experienced bullying. Students must feel safe to learn. Students who are bullied have a propensity to avoid the bullies; therefore, they choose not to attend school. Poor attendance often will result in poor grades and even dropping out of school.

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

When looking at the overall school systems throughout the United States, it is acknowledged how common bullying is. As stated within the assignment title, bullying is one of the most serious problems faced in school systems today. Bullying is described in the text as occurring when, “one or more children,intentionally and repeatedly expose another child, who cannot readily defend himself or herself, to negative actions.” (J, 2004). There are many forms of bullying that can transfer into other forms easily as well as combined such as physical, sexual, verbal, gestures, along with other forms. (J, 2004). “You can get bullied because you are weak or annoying or because you are different.” (Mash, 2016). This can be connected back into this week's

Bullying in the United States has become epidemic, but some schools are resistant to instill anti-bullying programs, because they fear the program will be ineffective. The article, Creating An Anti-Bullying Culture In Secondary Schools: Characterists to Consider When Constructing Appropriate Anti-Bullying Programs, researchers Joseph R. Jones, and Sharon Murphy Augustine address the issue of bullying head on. Research indicates that students who are from a low socioeconomic background, students who are racially diverse, students who have a learning disability, and student’s sexual orientation has the largest effect on bullying rates in the United States (Jones &Augustine, pp. 74-76). In a recent survey, twenty five percent of students reported that they are bullied on a daily basis and that cyber bullying is at an all time high (Jones &Augustine, p. 74). Due to the increased rates of bullying, there is an increase on teen suicide and school shootings. (Jones

M. (2012). School Bullying: Why Quick Fixes Do Not Prevent School Failure. Preventing School Failure, 56(3), 165-171. doi:10.1080/1045988X.2011.633283

Bullying is often unnoticed and unacknowledged by adults, which causing school officials to limited understanding and skills on how to address behaviors (Branes, Cross, Lester, Hearn, Epstein, & Monks, 2012). Bulling prevention programs will help inform teachers, schools, and parents on how to notice students are bullies or bring bullied. A bully behavior can negatively affect the person that they are targeting. Schools must inforce consequences for students are labeled as bullies, and teachers will need to intervene when the behavior is displayed. Therefore, effective school policies and strategies are important for teacher and staff members to understand to prevent and reduce bullying (Branes, Cross, Lester, Hearn, Epstein, & Monks, 2012).

Cunningham and Whitten (2007) discussed the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, a whole-school prevention program widely implemented and researched. Encompassing the whole school, the program contains school-wide, classroom, and individualized components. The program’s objectives include increasing awareness and problem assessment, environmental/ school climate strategies, classroom-focused strategies, and individual interventions. Extensive research indicates positive results in decreasing bullying and victimization. The authors also mention the importance of program monitoring and assessment to ensure thorough and comprehensive implementation. Comprehensive approaches, like the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, are foundational to ensuring the protection and safety of students to facilitate academic, social, and career development.

The Chapter 13 article emphasizes that teachers hold the key to change through successful prevention and treatment of bullying. Teachers are essential where their own behavior and interactions with students are critical to enhance their development. In order to eradicate or prevent bullying, teachers need to be aware and recognize that bullying is a serious problem. Although appropriate action is taken when bullying occurs, this topic will continue to be a painstakingly issue to solve.

A long history of school climate research has shown that ‘poor school climate is associated with increased bullying and negative student outcomes …[whereas, in contrast] positive, school-wide approaches to student behaviour management have been shown to improve school climate and will, in turn, likely reduce bullying’ (Bradshaw, 2013). The NSSF outlines guiding principles and resources to tackle school bullying through school climate reform.

This article focused their attention on the school wide impact of bullying. The study looked at 7,058 ninth graders in 289 schools in Virginia. What the researchers found was that bullying has a negative effect on school climate that goes beyond the victims who were bullied. When bullying was perceived as being a major problem on campus, the students

Bullying has been around for years, but it has never been taken to the extreme as it has today. According to Berthold and Hoover, Slee, Walker, Ramsey and Gresham, “targets of bullying may suffer greatly in terms of their social and emotional well-being, become anxious, and depressed, isolate themselves from peer groups, and avoid school for fear of being bullied”. With the help of school-based intervention programs, the frequency of bullying has the ability to be minimized greatly. Many theorists and practioners believe programs have already been put in place to intervene bullying, but too many tragedies are still occurring, so there needs to be more of an effective intervention.

As mentioned in Choosing the Right Anti-Bullying Program, an effective anti-bullying program targets the entire school climate rather than just specific peer interactions. An effective bullying program employs supports and strategies at each level within the building- from individual students and classrooms to ant-bullying teams that combine educators and students. Supportive anti-programs isolate perpetrators by promoting a zero tolerance policy with regards to harassment and bullying. Finally of the most important, and often underrepresented, pieces of the anti-bullying puzzle focuses on school and home partnerships. If a policy helps educate the students about bullying, creates an environment where there is zero tolerance for it, shows the consequences for students who are involved and require parents and educators to remain firm on negative peer interaction then it will be an effective program. It will help prevent bullying and will decrease the number of students

Thesis statement: Due to the fact that problem of bullying negatively affects students' learning ability, their health and the entire school climate society should take definite and urgent measures to solve it.

School bullying and bullying as a whole has become a growing concern. The need for more intervention is more recognized, as incidents of bullying and inappropriate acts towards others occur in places outside of the classroom. This literature takes a closer look at bullying in schools. Olwesus (2013) states “the field of bullying research is to some extent plagued by problems, disagreements, and unresolved issues” (p.752). Whether if anyone will agree on the root of bullying, the fact remains that bullying has to be examined at its very core to remedy the matter before it becomes a bigger concern. There is a dire need for intervention based programs to be set in place to address the fact the act of bullying has lasting effects on the bully and the victim. When intervention programs are put into place to address bullying, the act of bullying decreases due to the gained understanding of the effects.