Jesse Singal Analysis

The approach Jesse Singal is going about is very effective at educating the school’s culture. Having the seed students identify the problems in their school, allows them to realize that they should do something about it. When they are encouraged to act there will be a higher chance that they would act, because they understand the problem. When seed students oppose the problems, other students start noticing their actions. As stated above, students take their cues to how they should behave from their peers. When their peers take notice of their behaviors, they will change too.

Other than seed students being used to inspire taking action, they can be used for their communication insight. Jesse Singal explained that students, not only, have a

Many students look up to their teachers, which makes the way teachers act accountable to the way students act. Teachers should be educated about how to handle bullying situations. Handling bullying in the right manner decreases bullying. The National Education Association explains 10 steps, in their article, about how to handle bullying professionally.

Statistical data obtained from CNN article state that the schools using seed student’s strategy saw a 30% decrease in the amount of conflict reported (Jesse Singal). This show how effective educating schools and changing their culture’s social norms is.

When bullying is reported to the school, the victim expects the bully to be punished. Most schools punish bullies; however, they don’t punish bullies effectively. Steve Johnson defines bullying as “an anti-social, aggressive act by an isolated individual.” As stated above, Emily Miles White uses StopBullying.gov definition of bullying, “unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time.” Both definitions emphasize the fact that bullying is an aggressive act, and StopBullying.gov definition adds that bullying is repeated or has the potential to be

When bullying is a criminal offense, students are going to think twice before acting. Lynne Shallcross, a web producer for Kaiser Health News, explained that anti-bullying laws can help reduce bullying, both in real life and online. Anti-bullying laws are effective when they include three main components: “having a description of where and when the school has the authority to take action against bullying; having a clear definition of what constitutes bullying; and having a requirement that schools develop and implement their own local policies, possibly on a timeline” (Lynne Shallcross). These three components are effective because they give bullying a clear definition, explain when and where the school has the authority to do something, and requires schools to develop and implement their own policies. Requiring schools to create and implement their own polices forces schools to see bullying as a problem that needs to be addressed.

Researchers reported in JAMA Pediatrics that anti-bullying laws are most effective when they comply with the guidelines of the Department of Education (Lynne Shallcross). Researchers found that students were 24% less likely to report being bullied when the anti-bullying laws have at least one of the 16 key components of the Department of Education (Lynne Shallcross). That was found from looking at data of more than 60,000 high school students in 25 states (Lynne Shallcross). This proves that anti-bullying laws,