Bullying When our group was deciding what issue in education we wanted to do our project on, we wanted something that we all were really passionate about. A huge issue that is occurring throughout schools all over America is bullying. The definition of a bully is to use superior strength or influence to intimidate someone and typically force him or her to do what one wants. However, bulling is not just teasing children on the playground; it is much more serious and could leave negative lifelong long scars. When we discuss the kind of classrooms we hope to have we always describe that we want a “safe” and “welcoming” place for our students. Therefore this is a huge issue to address to make sure our classrooms can be this way. There is no reason why any child should ever endure such torment. The first article I chose to read was called Types of Bulling written by LuAnn Schindler on Life 123 Answers At the Speed of Life. I chose this article first because I wanted to really understand all types of bullying that children are facing these days in school. Bullying is a lot more than just physical hitting and kicking, it can also be verbal and even cyber bullying as well. The most known type of bulling is physical bullying. According to this article physical bullying involves a physical force or intimidation tactics to another ones body or property. This could involve hitting, kicking, biting, pinching or pushing. Any force that requires a child to do something out of his or her will is considered physical bullying. Another type of bullying that this article mentions that most people don’t think about is verbal and emotional bullying. This is name-calling, teasing, insulting, gossiping and even influencing other people not to talk to ... ... middle of paper ... ...e problem worse. So make sure to let the students know what they are doing is wrong, why it’s wrong, and get involved. Next set clear definition of bullying and enforce rules and expectations. This lets the students know what behavior is expected and sets the tone for the classroom. On top of these, it is also important to reward positive behavior, have open communication, engage parents, look for warning signs, clear the scene, monitor hot spots, and most importantly know your states laws and district policies. While reading these different articles I believe I really got not only a better understanding on what bullying is, but how to prevent it when I become a teacher myself. It is important that our schools need to provide a safe and respectful learning environment for all of our children and we need to take these steps to ensure the bullying is not tolerated.
The Department of Health and Human Services gives definitions to each type of bullying. Physical bullying is the aggression most commonly associated with bullying. This is any type of physical harm such as hitting, kicking, or spitting. It also would include theft of objects. Verbal bullying would involve name-calling, teasing, threats and inappropriate sexual comments. Social bullying would be deliberately excluding someone from a group or activity, spreading rumors about someone, and embarrassing someone in front of others. Cyber-bullying is a newer classification and involves using social digital media to bully. This type of bullying can encompass verbal and social bullying but is done through technology. Cyber-bullying frequently involves social network sites such as Fa...
The word “bully” is defined: “a blustering quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people”("Bully"). Bullying can be mainly divided into traditional bullying and cyber bullying. There are three major types of traditional bullying: verbal bullying, social bullying, and physical bullying. First, verbal bullying is when one uses language to offend or gain power over their peer. Some of the major examples of verbal bullying would be teasing, name-calling, taunting, and sexual harassments. Another form of traditional bullying is social bullying, which is the act of hurting someone’s social reputation or hurting his or her relationships. The third type of bullying is physical bull...
Bullying, often dismissed as a normal part of growing up, is a real problem in our nation's schools, according to the National School Safety Center. One out of every four schoolchildren endures taunting, teasing, pushing, and shoving daily from schoolyard bullies. More than 43 percent of middle- and high-school students avoid using school bathrooms for fear of being harassed or assaulted. Old-fashioned schoolyard hazing has escalated to instances of extortion, emotional terrorism, and kids toting guns to school. It is estimated that more than 90 percent of all incidents of school violence begin with verbal conflicts, w...
There are many types of bullying. The most common type is verbal. Verbal bullying includes threats, name calling, and taunting. Verbal bullying can be said or even written down. Even though it isn’t physical pain, it still cuts deep on the inside.
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 by definition is a form of aggressive behavior in which someone intentionally and repeatedly causes another person injury or discomfort. Bullying can take the form of physical contact, words or more subtle actions. [Why] Bullying has grown new outlets over the last decade. With social media outlets and text messaging added to the game, bullying is not just about getting tormented face to face anymore. Cyber bullying can include sending out mean or threatening emails and instant messages about a person, spreading rumors about someone and also include photos that a person would consider to be humiliating. [Chamberlin] Bullying can have many outlets. The most common form of bullying is still face to face confrontation. But the other outlets, such as cyber bullying are definitely not something to take lightly or consider low on a scale of importance. Sexual harassment, racial differences, not being “cool enough”, or just simply being viewed as a weaker individual may attribute to many of the reasons a person is preyed on.
Bullying is a global issue that has been around for many centuries. Currently, one out of three kids on average have been bullied by another kid at some point in their lives. This is not something to take lightly; it is a serious issue because of the effects bullying has on kids and adolescents. Each morning many kids wake up scared to walk into their own school because of bullying; it mentally turns their brains upside-down, socially rips them apart, and physically beats them up.
...of rule-setting against bullying should be implemented not only on an individual level, but on a classroom and school-level as well. "The school," says Dan Olweus, "has a responsibility to stop bullying behavior and create a safe learning environment for all students." He suggests a curriculum that constantly monitors abusive behavior, promotes kindness, acceptance of differences and educates teachers, school staff, parents and children alike about bullying and response strategies.
Bullying refers to the repeated occurrences of terrorizing and frightening victims through physical or psychological harm. There are two types of bullying; physical and cyber. Physical bullying includes physically injuring or verbally putting down the victims to forcefully carry out tasks for the bully such as doing their school work. In physical bullying there is a lack of power, the bullies are bigger and stronger compared to the defenseless victims. In contrast, cyberbullying takes place in a digital environment and does not include face to face confrontations. The bully harasses the victim through the internet and social media websites.
There could be bullying at school and online. Bullying is being mean to another kid over and over again and making them feel like less of the person they actually are. There are four different common kinds of bullying: Verbal, Physical, Relational, and Cyberbullying. Verbal bullying is bullying with cruel spoken words, involves ongoing name-calling, threatening, and making disrespectful
They can do things like show the students videos about bullying, or even have them put on a play. (Concordia University, 2012). If the students are educated about bullying, they will realize when it is taking place and know how to stop or prevent it. It is also helpful to teach kids not to bully, but since that does not always work it is best to have all the kids educated on how to deal with a bullying situation. Page 54: Teacher Saying, “This is a safe environment, We are here to support you.”
There are four different types of bullying. These are physical, verbal, indirect, and cyber bullying. Physical bullying includes any type of physical contact towards another person that is unwanted, such as hitting, kicking, pinching, punching, even spitting. Breaking others possessions or simply taking their belongings are also examples of physical bullying. When the parents physically abuse children, they often feel as if it is their fault they are being knocked around. If the child has no one to talk to, or no one to tell, the physical abuse can go on for years and cause multiple problems for the child, even in their adult years.
“Researchers have conducted that at least 25% of all children will be affected by bullying at some point during their school years, and many of these children miss significant numbers of school days each year owing to fear of being bullied” (Bray, M., Kehle, T., Sassu, K. (2003). Bullying has become a major problem for our students and our schools. Children are missing educational time and are losing self-confidence because they are afraid or intimidated by other students. We, as teachers, need to reduce bullying in our schools and prevent bullying from being a reoccurring issue in the lives of our students in order for them to learn, grow and develop. Our goal as teachers should be “to reduce as much as possible-ideally to eliminate completely- existing bully/victim problems in and out of the school setting and to prevent the development of new problems” (Olweus, D. (1993).
Bullying has always been present within the United States. Although the issue has been around for a long time, it continues to grow and become more of problem. It is said that about 160,000 children within the United States are refusing to go to school because of bullying. Another statistic is that within American schools alone, there are an estimated 2.1 billion bullies and 2.7 billion victims (Dan Olewus, MBNBD). The numbers presented here are outrageous and although there are organizations to stop bullying, obviously there needs to be a new set of solutions. Any type of bullying presents problems to children, “Suicide, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, trouble with the law, poor performance in school and work, and lack of involvement in socially accepted activities are some of the difficulties resulting from bullying (Austin, Reynolds, Barnes, Shirley). Of course, there is more than just a single type of bullying. Feeding ground for bullies can range anywhere from text-message or cyberbullying to physical bullying in schools. Also, bullies can begin to strike at a young age and could also be; teenage, middle-age, or even the elderly. Even though there are these many versions of problematic bullies, the largest bullying problems take place within the school setting: a place that is supposed to be safe for children rather than harmful. Although it seems impossible to completely get rid of bullying, these are a few suggested solutions; making the school informed on bullying issues, schools implementing rules on bullying, and having students positively use electronics to stop bullying.
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