Effects Of Hazing In The United States

Many high school or college clubs sometimes haze newcomers and it can be very dangerous. Imagine going to a new school and joining a club and the initiation is getting abused, mistreated, and threatened. Students probably do not think about getting hurt just because they joined a club, but it happens. Hazing in schools has become an issue in the United States throughout the years, and people need to help prevent it from happening.

Hazing is a type of bullying that is meant to embarrass people and sometimes can be dangerous. Hazing and bullying are a lot alike except for after people haze someone for a little while they will become friends after. Hazing can happen at any school and in any type of group. Hazers are people who possess power

to hurt those who do not have any power or say over anything. Many students haze because they don’t feel powerful, or feel like they have too much power that they can do whatever they want. Hazers also think that they have control over the newcomer, so they can do whatever they want for the initiation and they enjoy the power that they have over the newcomers. Hazers think that when they haze someone that they are toughening them up. The students who usually haze are the ones who have had it done to themselves before, so they think that it is no big deal because they lived through it. Hazers also feel prideful when they haze because they are continuing traditions that are fun to humiliate and intimidate newcomers. Many abusive and embarrassing tricks are done to the newcomers or haze victims.
Hazing can be really harmful to the haze victim.

Many students who are getting hazed do not tell anyone and that is more dangerous than if you do tell someone. Hazing someone may cause them physical pain and many injuries. Not telling someone to stop the hazing can cause brain damage, sexual abuse, scars, and bruises. Hazing victims also get humiliated, because they think they need to earn their place to be were the older ones are at. Not telling anyone if you are getting hazed can lead you to serious injuries and mental damage leading to self abuse. Haze victims go through depression, many emotions, and some mental health concerns. Hazing also leads someone to lost friendships that are not in the organization. Making newcomers underage drink can cause alcohol poisoning and even death. Athletic performance and academics may be decreased when being hazed. Telling someone about being hazed can help these things not to happen and stop hazing for good in your

school.
Hazing comes with many consequences that could affect the rest of your life.

Hazing is illegal in 44 states, but students do it anyway. Hazing breaks laws and many policies in schools. Serious outcomes are forced on hazers like lawsuits, disciplinary control, and legal consequences. Hazing is considered an illegal act which could lead hazers to jail. Devastating lawsuits are charged to anyone who hazes and could affect the rest of your life. People who are caught hazing have trouble into getting into colleges, clubs, or sport teams. Hazing can also become criminal if it involves alcohol, improper touching, physical abuse, or beating someone. Hazing can also affect government applications and people that trust the person who hazed, may not trust them anymore. These consequences could harm hazers throughout their life, so think before you haze someone. There are many ways that people haze, and most can be really

dangerous.
Three ways that people haze are subtle, harassment, and violent. Subtle hazing does not have to do with pledges, but it includes making people do things that they never had to do. Harassment hazing is physical discomfort, mental anguish, verbal abuse, and making the newcomer wear and do ridiculous things. Violent hazing is anything that could physically hurt somebody. Violent hazing can be deadly, abusive, and sexual. Some people do all three ways of hazing, because they are “toughening up” the newcomers.
There are many ways people help prevent hazing in schools, clubs, and other places. Teachers help prevent hazing by teaching about the history of violence toward one another. Schools and coaches are trying to get positive and welcoming rituals instead of hazing each other. They are also encouraging students to tell someone if they are being hazed instead on keeping it to themselves. Hazing is discussed in some schools on their first week to help prevent it. On homecoming week, there are more people looking around for hazing because that is when it happens most. Parents, students, and teachers create anti-hazing programs to prevent hazing from happening. It takes community and school efforts to help prevent hazing from happening. Parents, teachers, and students should look out for strange actions among their child, student, or classmate. Students heard of hazing around schools, so they created clubs to welcome newcomers in a kind manner. Showing and talking to students about the consequences of hazing helps prevent students from wanting to do it.
Hazing in schools has become an issue in the United States, and people need to help prevent it. Hazing is a brutal act that nobody wants to go through. Hazing comes with many consequences that can harm somebody throughout their life. Teachers, students, and parents can get together and stop hazing through their community. Nobody wants or needs to be mistreated and helping prevent hazing can save newcomers from being hazed.