Imagine a normal 10 year old girl who doesn’t look any different than any other person attending school. Every day in class this girl is ridiculed and called nasty names by her classmates for no apparent reason. The young girl tries to keep a brave face to hide what she’s going through at school. Many questions passed through her head on why this was happening to her. After months of being tormented the 10 year old broke down and tells her mother about her situation with her classmates. She asked her mother the reasons why kids would tease another person. The mother responded by telling her daughter there was nothing wrong with her and kids bullied others for fun, which boosted her tormentors egos when they made others feel smaller. With the support and help of her mother, she was able to overcome being a victim of bullying. The 10 year old girl I just spoke about was me and this is was my story. In this essay I will be discussing why bullying is a big problem, the reasons kids are bullied, why victims don’t report being bullied, and how we can make a difference to help stop bullying.
First, let’s discuss why bullying is a big problem. Bullying is a verbal, physical, social or psychological behavior that is harmful to one or several people. It
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I hope you can join the fight against to help stop bullying once and for all. In my case, I was fortunate to have the support and love of my mother who was able to motivate me to get through being bullied at school. There are the less fortunate who don’t have the support I was blessed to have and decide to end their lives. By speaking up you might be saving a life. I leave you with inspiring words from Gandi “Be the difference you want to see in the world.” Together we can all make a difference to help stop bullying once and for all. Only you have the power to create change in our
In school you probably remember the “odd-balls” being picked on by the “cool kids”. Maybe they were being called offensive names or were being laughed at because of something they liked, if they looked or acted a certain way. Or possibly it was because of their religion. The truth of the matter is, people will use just about any reason to bully and use different methods when bullying. Questions that rise is what kind of bullying is there? How does it affect the person being targeted? How can we take a stand to stop bullying and ultimately, how can we help those who are being bullied? This essay will consider and answer these questions.
As a society, we often underestimate the damages that bullying cause on children, not just America but all over, and the ones who suffer are the victims themselves. Victims are damaged with the stigma that they are weak, yet somehow have to fend for themselves against something that they have little to no control over. Whether it is for funding, a reputation or any other reason schools sweep their bullying problem under the rug or turn a blind eye, however they have more potential to end this growing issue. To the schools that think bullying is not their problem, they should know that according to heyugly.org, an anti-bullying campaign, “Approximately, 160,000 children a day stay home from school in fear of being bullied.”They also point out
Bullying is a serious issue and has an adverse effect that could lead to depression, anxiety, and worse suicide. To become a bully takes a long process, with the help from parents, schools, communities, and social media, bullies and bullying can be prevented.
Why do people bully? Some people bully because they are afraid. When people are afraid of something or someone, they decide to bully. People choose to bully, because they think it make them cool. They think if they bully people, others would want to be like them. They believe it would help them fit in with the people around. They think it would help them be like someone who everyone else look up too. They want their friends to see how bad they are or how bad they try to be. Bullies are not as bad as most people think they are. Some people bully only on small people. You don’t see to many bullies bullying on each other. Even bullies are afraid of each other. The bully think since they are bigger than another person, they have more power. Some people even bully others because they may be getting bullied somewhere else. They may come to school and bully someone else to get their mind off of what some else are doing to them.
Bullying has been a part of schooling for as long as children have been congregating. To some it seems like a natural, though uncomfortable, part of life and school experience, while to others it can mean terrifying experiences which spoiled and characterized otherwise happy years in school. Dan Olweus, a pioneer in bully behavior research documented that 2.7 million children are affected as victims, and that 2.1 children act as bullies (Fried, 1997, as cited in Aluedse, 2006). With bullying cited as the reason for violent, gun-related crime in the past few years, school districts as well as national governments have put anti-bullying policies in place. Bullying is a complicated phenomenon, involving more than one child demanding lunch money from a smaller child. It is a worldwide epidemic hitting schools everywhere. Virtually everyone has seen or experienced bullying. With technological advances, bullying is even hitting the internet. Parents, teachers, students and governments agencies alike are attempting to put a stop to bullying practices.
A survey conducted at Madera High School shows that bullying and harassment is a major part of the students’ lives. There were a total of 206 student surveys and a total of 7 staff survey. This survey showed that teachers and other staff members are willing to help students going through bullying and harassment. Bullying and harassment might not seem like a major problem on this campus because most of it is kept among students. Often times, students prefer to solve problems their own way, instead of confiding to an adult because students feel that when they do confide in an adult, nothing gets done. In addition, bullying and harassment is unfortunately often unseen because bullying and harassment occurs mostly on social media, such as Facebook,
Bullying is an issue that has been around for decades and is something that can affect everyone, no matter what his or her age is. Even though bullying has changed over the years from being physical abuse and harassment that happens on the playgrounds of schoolyards to tormenting over the Internet. The same groups are still affected namely adolescents. Statistically about 30 percent of all teenagers in the United States are bullied in one-way or another (“Teenage Bullying”).
What is bullying? When someone says or does something unintentionally hurtful and they do it once, that’s rude. When someone says or does something intentionally hurtful and they do it once, that’s mean. When someone says or does something intentionally hurtful and they keep doing it, even when you tell them to stop or show them you are upset, that’s bullying, ("Bullying Basics.") Despite what many people believe, bullying (in schools) IS a big problem that can be solved by awareness and strict policies.
Bullying is an issue that has been going on since the beginning of time. We need to take a stance against this matter. It has happened in the past and is still continuing to happen. Let us stop all of this negativity and do something about this, so that we do not bring this into our future.
Bullying against teens is still happening even though there are various awareness programs to try to prevent it. I want to create awareness of bullying against teens of all religions, race, and sexual orientation. Even with the various attention to bullying, the problem still persists despite the school providing awareness, students are still afraid to say anything. Societal patterns today make bullying a difficult issue to eliminate. Starting in 2007, a total of 35 states made laws to go against bullying at school. These laws consisted of a clear definition of bullying, and how schools will be required to enforce uniform standards of conduct. The reason bullying comes as such an issue to me is because I actually know friends that have been suicidal and have caused themselves harm due to being bullied every day, in school and at home.
Bullying is something that is not something new and is actually something that society continues to face. Over the years, bullying has been looked at as being so ordinary in schools that it is continuously overlooked as an emanate threat to students and has been lowered to a belief that bullying is a part of the developmental stage that most young children will experience then overcome (Allebeck, 2005, p. 129). Not everyone gets over the extreme hurt that can come as an effect from bullying, for both the bully and the victim. Because of this, we now see bullying affecting places such as the workplace, social events and even the home. The issue of bullying is not only experienced in schools, but the school environment is one of the best places
Problems usually have solutions. Solutions could be extremely easy to find, or the process of finding one could be problematic. One worldly issue that does not have a solution yet is bullying. Bullying is present in schools world-wide, and it has been this way since there have been schools. This horrible act is accepted as part of life. People are used to bullying, that it almost seems normal. This should not be the case. Bullying is a horrific act that needs to be stopped, but is that possible? Three specific ways people have proposed to stop bullying is to criminalize bully in an attempt to deter any further bullying, to assign bullies student mentors in order to have someone guide them, or to force school or parental figures to be more active in trying to prevent bullying. Each of these methods has its advantages and disadvantages, but which is the best method to effectively stop bullying?
Bullying has become a serious issue in the past few years for many students. The constant harassment by peers can take a serious toll on the victims. There are many variations of bullying— cyber bullying, verbal bullying, physical bullying, and many others. With so many variations of bullying, it leaves a large amount of room for potential victims to be hurt. What happens when bullying enters a school environment? How does this affect the students? The students are affected greatly. I can personally think of several examples here at West Salem High School that have ruined some student 's friendships and lives. Including mine.
Bullying has become a serious problem in public schools systems. Being a victim of bullying is a daily struggle for some students. The issue continues to grow, but the question is how to stop bullying from occurring. Many ways have been attempted to stop bullying, but some are more effective than others. Having the students get involved seems to have the most positive effect on the bullying issue in public school systems.
Bullying is a serious problem in homes, schools, and communities. Bullying can have a negative effect on academic, physical, social, and emotional development of anyone involved. It can affect the bully, the bullied, and the bystander. It seems that no matter what type of research is done or how many “anti-bullying” programs are created, the problem still exists. People don’t know how big the bullying issue is. They tend to blow it off or they will underestimate it. Bullying is a large social problem and to solve it takes courage, determination, and leadership to address.