...Bullying and harassment is a worldwide issue. It is seen here in our schools in the United States and also on the web. Bullying starts in as early as preschool all the way up into college. Statics in the United States show that 1 in 4 kids are bullied regularly. Students who experience bullying are at risk of suffering academic problems and adjust poorly in school. Since bullying is occurring in all ages our 50 states have passed a legislation. This legislations requires public schools to carry out anti bullying activities Harassment occurs frequently in workplaces and even school as well. Both bullying and harassment can happen to anyone anywhere. At my high school Madera High, bullying is an issue. Right now it is difficult for school officials...
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...people who like to be in charge, who feel as bullying people is their way of being on top of things. My topic proposal is, should the state or federal government put laws into place to prevent bullying? People who don’t get attention at home like to bully others so that people around them can laugh an give the bully all of their attention. Bullying is one of the reasons why teenagers drop out of school, commit suicide, or become outrageous to where they hurt the one who bullied them and others around them. Bullying affects kids from having an education and it even affects family, friends, and loved ones when they lose someone they adore so much over bullying. There are always two sides to everything; one side is with it and the other side is against it. People in this world see bullying everywhere they go, there are higher percentages of people for wanting bullying to be illegal and then there...
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...this is called bullying. Many teens kill themselves over a situation such as this. 500,000 teenagers try to commit suicide and only 5,000 actually succeed (Jaredstory.com). There are many types of bullying but, the most common form of bullying, that is on the rise, is Cyber bullying. “Cyber bullying is the number one cause of suicide” (Jaredstory.com). Not only does bullying affect the victim but the victim's family as well. Bullying is negatively affecting the United States today. One way Cyber bullying is negatively affecting the United States today is academically. “Cyber bullying is when a child, adolescent or young adult bullies, harasses or repeatedly threatens one of their peers electronically through email, instant messages, blogging, text messages and Web Sites dedicated to humiliating another child” (How Is Cyber Bullying Affecting Your Kids). Cyber bullying does not affect the child only personally but academically. A person with an unstable home will most likely not be able to focus on their work in the classroom. Stress is put upon that person and so they have many other things on their mind instead of their classwork. When writing papers, one may try to avoid using the computer, to keep themselves from getting hate emails, messages or tweets. “The person being bullied grades will start to lower, “because their lack of confidence will prevent them from contributing and asking questions in class”(How Is Cyber Bullying Affecting Your Kids). Cyber bullying can ruin ones...
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...Wilmath Bullying and Technology Liberty University With the technological advances that have been made over the last decade comes a new wave of bullying or harassment for students of all ages. It is known as cyber bullying. Teachers, parents, and students are becoming more concerned with the over abundance of bullying that is taking place over the web, through texting and even through phone calls. What can be done to help protect students from unwanted texts, facebook messages, and all other forms of technological communication? Is there a way to censor these forms of communication without infringing on peoples freedom of speech? This paper will attempt to find answers to the questions and expound on how serious cyber bullying is becoming and what types of serious consequences cyber bullying is producing. First let’s take a look at what types of cyber bullying are out there. Technology has advanced us to the point that bullying has gone to the extreme. Years ago a person being bullied was facing the fear of face to face confrontation, a note being written and passed around, and maybe some nasty phone calls on a home phone. Today with the advanced forms of communications such as: I Pods, Smart Phones, Computers, and all digital forms of communication, bullying has advanced passed the school yard or ball field. It is with people where ever they go and carry one these forms of technology with them. Among students the most popular form of cyber bullying is texting...
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...every year because they are victims of bullying, whereas 1.3 million children a year bully others. Recent incidents of school violence have brought bullying to the nation’s attention in a dramatic way. Research shows that approximately 30% of teens in the United States either bully, are targets of bullying, or both (National Youth, n.d.). Some bullies attack their targets physically, which can mean anything from shoving or tripping to punching or hitting, or even sexual assault. Others use psychological control or verbal insults to put themselves in charge (Hurst, 2005). Two of the main reasons people are bullied are because of appearance and social status. Bullies pick on the people they think don't fit in, maybe because of how they look, how they act (for example, kids who are shy and withdrawn), their race or religion, or because the bullies think their target may be gay or lesbian. One of the cases associated with bullying is that of Megan Taylor Meier (November 6, 1992 – October 17, 2006) an American teenager from Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, who had committed suicide by hanging three weeks before her fourteenth birthday. Meier attended Immaculate Conception Catholic School in Dardenne Prairie, with a uniform and policy against makeup and jewelry that the Meier’s thought would help Megan fit in. At the time of the incident, the Drew and Meier households were neighbors, living four doors apart. The account through which the bullying of Meier took place purportedly belonged...
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...Facts and Stats”). On the other hand, the overwhelming majority of the children in the United States, and other First World countries, have access to educational resources. Yet, around 160,000 children in the United States alone miss school because of bullying (Phoenix & Honda, “Our children Faces a Bullying Epidemic”). Since most bullying takes place at school, it is imperative that these schools take actions by implementing anti-bullying policies into their school code of conduct. The schools are primarily responsible for reducing bullying among students and must seek effective solutions to this growing problem. Bullying would not be such a huge problem if school officials stepped up and started intervening. But how can they intervene when many cannot even recognize signs of bullying, or have not been trained on how to properly handle the situation? If not handled correctly, it can worsen and create more issues for the victims. In a survey done by Frank Barone, principal of Amsterdam High School New York, teachers believed approximately 16% of students are bullied victims (Barone,80). Barone also surveyed students, 58% of whom revealed that they are bullied victims. He found three core reasons as to why teachers and faculty members do not recognize bullying. First, the teachers believed that the bullied victims have to learn to stand up for themselves on their own. Second, they see bullying every day to the point that have become immune to it, and thus hardly recognize it anymore...
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...Stop The Bullying Every day, on every playground and hallway in our American schools, children, youths, and teens are harassed, tormented, made fun, physically and mentally abused and embarrassed by bullies. Is your child one of these bullies or a victim of bullying? This bully behavior is not only happening in the United States but all over the world. Many children and youths observe miserably as other school children get bullied at school. Bullies usually pick on personalities and individuals who are weaker than themselves, so they can build themselves to feel better about themselves. Sadly to say, many individuals have witnessed bullying or been a bully themselves. As parents, school administrators and citizens of a community we need to unite and stand up to bullies and give our children the tools, knowledge and skills to reach out for help from their peers, teachers and parents. In many school systems across the nation, plans to protect students from the growing occurrence of bullying are being developed. Bullying within our school systems has become a nationwide growth and development of strategies and proposals between parents, teachers, school administrators and government to assist our school systems to promote antibullying programs, therefore giving the kids who are being bullied an outlet to reach out for help. The current antibully programs in the school systems are not effective because they are based on self-reporting systems and those have been shown...
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...2013 Bullying Stopbullying.gov defines bullying as “unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involve a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time” (stopbullying.gov). “Traditionally bullying has included overt physical acts (e.g., hitting, shoving) and verbal abuse (e.g., taunting, name-calling) as well as more subtle or indirect actions such as social exclusion and rumor spreading” (Kowalski, Limber S22). There are many types of bullying and how it can be done. In this paper it will show the two types of bullying, the warning signs and effects, and risk factors of bullying. One type of bullying is cyber bullying; “cyber bullying is bullying that takes place using electronic technology. Electronic technology includes devices and equipment such as cell phones, computers, and tablets as well as communication tools including social media sites, text messages, chat and websites” (stopbullying.org). Cyber bullying can be anything from someone posting rumors on a social networking site, spreading embarrassing photos and videos of someone to everyone they know, to someone making a fake profile to get someone to like them in order to make fun of that person (stopbullying.org). Cyber bullying is different than in person bullying because it can be done twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, it can reach a person anywhere, anytime day or night (stopybullying.org). “Cyber bullying messages...
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...| Bullying on School Campuses | | I. Introduction “Parents are way overprotective these days; getting picked on by tougher kids and hassling weaker ones is just a part growing up. It is how they learn to deal with the real world.” A statement heard by many people from adults. Unfortunately, this statement is incorrect. Throughout the course of years the US Department of Justice and Education indicate that more than eighty percent (80%) of public elementary and secondary schools report experiencing at least one violent incident ranging from bullying and physical fights to rape and assault with a weapon. (ProQuest Staff) This shows there is a need for change in society. A parent guardian as well as a student would want to be able to go to school in a secure environment for learning, but is that really how schools are today? Anyone can be a bully; classmates, administrators, school bus drivers, and even family members. Being a bully can be triggered by a desire to seem cool or to show social dominance. It can also be a ploy to hide your own low self-esteem and a need for approval from your peers. Bullying may start at home; family dynamics help bred bullies. An adult who will usual give birth and raise children that will bully. The last dynamic problem of what may create a bully is American culture; hostile music and movies and the focus on excellence and achievement that ignores the greater good of man. Bullying is dangerous; emotionally, psychologically and sometimes...
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...(Harper, 2015). The term “bully,” in it’s most basic logic, consist of two people, a bully and a victim. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention ("Bullying," 2015, p. 2), defines bullying as 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. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group or purpose. Bullying can occur in-person or through technology. Children are being exposed to social media and the Internet at an earlier age than ever before. Can being exposed at such an early age be the cause of cyberbullying? Since we are becoming a strictly technology centered lifestyle, young people are using social media technology, including cell phones, text messaging, and the Internet, to communicate with others in the United States and throughout the world at an earlier age than ever before. Social media technology has many potential benefits for youth. It allows young people to communicate with family and friends on a regular basis. However, social media technology also leaves your children vulnerable to become victims of cyberbullying. According to StopBullying.gov, a combined group of United States government agencies such as Department of Education (ED), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Justice (DOJ), and Substance Abuse...
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...and owners (Christie) Most recently, the Tribune has gone under the ownership of CHNI, a major publisher of newspapers across the United States. Because of this ownership, the Meadville Tribune can use articles written by journalists of other newspapers within the company. Recently, the Tribune posted a series, “Protecting Our Children,” written by journalists at the Sharon Herald. The series of twenty-six articles and videos covers children in the local area surrounding the Sharon Herald (Meadville). The articles discuss issues surrounding children in a multitude on environments—schools,...
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...Human development online class 2/26/15 Bullying One of the most important periods in an individual’s life is their school years. School is a place where children and teenagers socialize, obtain different social skills, and prepare themselves for their future life and career. What is bullying? Bullying is defined as repeated, systematic efforts to inflict harm through physical, verbal, or social attack on a weaker person. Bullying will always be the problem in schools, parks, and in many places frequented by children. The usual place where bullying happens is at the school where older and bigger children have the chance to do their hostile mistreatment of younger and smaller children. In “Ronan’s escape” video, which is a film about a boy name Ronan be a victim of bullying in school. The bullying may consist of taunting, name calling or actual physical harm inflicted on the victims. According to data collected by the National Institute of Child 30% of all children studying in middle and high school were at least once in a semester bullied or acted as bullies themselves in the United States of America (national conference of state legislations). Moreover, several recent studies in United States of America indicate over 11,000 children reported being the victims of bullying. An additional 3 percent described themselves as both victims and bullies. In a study of over 2,000 New York state students, 9 percent reported being frequently victimized by bullies. In California...
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...Chapter 1: Introduction Background Information: Bullying has been an ongoing problem for many years, it can occur in the workplace, school, or online. Although this can happen anywhere, I will discuss bullying in the school and the measures being taking to prevent it. In Dake, Price, and Telljohann, they state that in the past three decades, school bullying gained increased attention in the United States due to media attention on homicide and suicide cases where bullying was a precipitating factor (Dake, Price, and Telljohann, 2003). The US Secret Service investigated characteristics of students involved in school shootings in the United States. During the Secret Service’s research, they found 37 different school shootings, two-thirds involved attackers who "felt persecuted, bullied, threatened, attacked, or injured by others prior to the incident". While two-thirds of the cases did not directly involve school bullying, "a number of the attackers had experienced bullying and harassment that was longstanding and severe. In those cases, the experience of bullying appeared to play a major role in motivating the attack at the school (US Secret Service, 2000)”. Ethics is another factor to consider when thinking about bullying and its effects on the victims. Burke and Richer break down behavior into two groups. Clearly wrong and conditionally wrong, of the two clearly wrong would be the proper fit for the topic that I am discussing. Clearly wrong includes behaviors which are so...
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...Federal Government Prevention of Bullying We have all heard the words; the words that tear us down and break us apart. A person can only bend so far before they break. No one is immune to it, we are all capable of bullying. By no means is bullying right; often times the repercussions of being bullied are devastating. Although there is no Federal law currently in place to prevent bullying, there are discrimination and harassment laws and many states have anti-bullying laws; there is hope for the Federal government to follow suit in enacting anti-bullying laws. Bullying in the United States is continuing to get expand, but the awareness of bullying is also increasing. There are several ideas of what exactly bullying is. The most common definition of bullying is “purposeful attempts to control another person through verbal abuse - which can be in the tone of voice or in content such as teasing or threats.” Sometimes the verbal abuse turns into physical abuse. Bullying is not limited to just schools; bullying is taking place in workplaces, homes, nursing homes and even in the military ("Why do People Bully?"). Research has proven that bullying happens more frequently in the middle school age years than any other school years (“New ways to stop bullying”). Over 160,000 children stay home from school every day in fear of being bullied (“Bullying and Suicide”). Seven percent of eight grade students stay home at least one day a month due to continued bullying and harassment by other students...
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...The Damaging Effects of Bullying, Why It Needs to Stop, and How to Stop It There are many problems in our school system today, but the number one problem, in my opinion, is bullying. “An Analysis of School Anti-Bullying Laws in the United States,” written by Maryellen Kueny and Perry Zirkel, states that “bullying has been a persistent problem in middle level and high schools.” According to Kueny and Zirkel’s article, “an early national study found that among sixth through twelfth graders, 56% of students witnessed bullying and 71% know of a peer who is being bullied.” In the same article mentioned before, “a study of bullying in American schools found 86% of students in grade 6 through 10 engaged in bullying sometimes or more frequently.” As you can see bullying plays a big role in our school systems today and causes many problems not just for the student being bullied but for the bullies themselves. Bullying should be put to an end because it causes damage to those who are bullied and the bullies, as well. Physical bullying, verbal bullying, convert or hidden bullying, and cyberbully are the four main types of bullying. Out of the four types, verbal bullying and cyberbullying are the most common. Verbal bullies use words to harm others through name-calling, insulting, making racist comments, or harsh teasing. Cyberbullying can happen at any time. The Alannah and Madeline Foundation says that cyberbullying includes: “abusive or hurtful texts, emails, posts, images or videos...
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