...Bullying in Schools Victoria Cottongin Monday March 31, 2014 Abstract This is a paper on bullying in schools. It will give suggestions of ways for schools to convey awareness. This paper will also include some suggestions on how to stop bullying in schools by establishing certain consequences for students and parents. Bullying in Schools Sandy, an overweight teen whose family was not financially sound, was sitting at the lunch table all by herself when part of the “A” list group started throwing Twinkies at her and making pig noises. Later that evening when Sandy logged on to her Facebook account, it had been hacked. In the place of her cover photo was a picture of a pig. The next day the local news reported that a sixteen year old girl had committed suicide and a group of teens was being charged with her murder due to bullying. That sixteen year old girl was Sandy. Bullying in schools has become a very popular topic. With all the advancements in technology, many of these acts are making it into mainstream media. There has been a startling increase in the amount and types of students who feel they are bullied by others in school. Over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year and nearly one third of all students get bullied daily. Due to the prevalence of cell phones and social media, these acts of bullying almost always follow the student home. According to the CDC, approximately 4,400 suicide deaths in young people occur per year. That makes suicide...
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...Rachel Luna Eng 102 Schroeder 01/11/2015 Bullying in School The problem is that bullying in school has been a major issue for many of years. A lot of times the bullying goes unnoticed until something tragic happens. Bullying can sometimes cause lifelong consequences or even lead to death in some situations. When bullying is happening in school we need to make the kids aware that they are not alone and that there is always somebody that they can talk to about the situation. If the children are afraid of the bullying they may not talk to an adult or say anything until it is too late. There are many ways that we can try to stop bullying in the schools but we also need to make sure that we speak with our children about bullying in order to help prevent and protect the kids who are being bullied. Bullying should never end somebody’s life. In school bullying happens every day and most of the time it continues long term without anybody noticing or the person being bullied even telling anybody. Sometimes there are signs of bullying which us as parents and educators should be aware of. These signs could include skipping school, personal items are damaged or missing, child doesn’t want to go to school, eating habits change, appears sad, angry, anxious, or even depressed, or even significant drop in the child’s grades. Sometimes the child may even try to harm them self in ways that we may not know. These harmful ways could include cutting themselves, taking unnecessary pills...
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...Bullying in schools Bullying is one of the biggest problems in schools, bullying in USA and in Japan is the greatest, they have that largest number of reported cases of bullying Bullying today is a threat to children and tenagers 83% girls 79% boys, 35% suffers from cyber bullying, six out of 10 teenagers witness bullying in schools once a day this leads to a 75% of school shootings incidents, this have been linked to bullying and harassment Bullying has serious side effects, students who are target of this experience extreme stress that can lead to symptoms of physical illness and a diminished ability to learn also depression which can lead to death In the 21 century we were introduced to the to great technological advances including...
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...Bullying has been engrained in American society since the country’s founding. Bred from a capitalistic economy and competitive social hierarchy, bullying has remained a relevant issue through the years. Each day, school children learn valuable skills and lessons from the teachers as well as interactions with their peers. Although school, undoubtedly, is beneficial to America’s youth, there are some experiences, such as bullying, that may negatively affect and stick with children for the rest of their lives. Certain children find an outlet for their frustrations through bullying others. In the past, these actions could be better controlled because they were limited to face-to-face interactions. In recent years, this age-old conflict has matched the pace of technological evolutions; making it more dangerous and harder to contain. Cell phones, social media sites, chat rooms, and other forms of technology have allowed bullying to expand into cyberspace. This new form of bullying is known as cyberbullying. The word “bully” can be traced as far back as the 1530’s (Hindju & Patchin, 2009). In its most basic form, bullying involves two people, a bully or intimidator and a victim. The bully abuses the victim through physical, verbal, or other means in order to gain a sense of superiority or power. These actions may be direct (i.e. hitting, verbally assaulting face-to-face, etc.) or indirect (i.e. rumors and gossip). There is no clear cut reason why children become a bully, but some...
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... Bullying in School Bullying in school has been going on for decades and has been a constant issue that was not spoken about or dealt with for many years. Students being made fun of really had nobody to turn to for help to have bullying stopped. According to authors’ Aluede, Adeleke, Omoike & Afen-Akpaida, “bullying research began in the 1970’s after author Dan Olweus began and wrote a book about it.” (2008, p.152). Olweus book is considered the first study of bullying. (Noelle, 2005). For the past few years bullying in school has become a topic of open concern. Bullying in schools has become a nationwide problem and schools need to be held accountable because the students are in their care, bullying has caused students to commit suicide, and bullying has led to students dropping out of school. Bullying in school happens while students are in their care. Teachers are present in school all day and must make the effort to stop bullying when they see it happening. School faculty should be able to report all cases of bullying to the Police and the Department of Education. According to an authors’ Dagman Strohmeier and Gil Nolan, “Educators often do not pay enough attention to the fact that bullying is usually not a single event; rather it happens repeatedly over a period of time.” (2012, p.8). Since teachers make up a big part of the school system this is one reason for schools to be held accountable for the bullying going on in school. I was bullied...
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...Social Control and Criminal Deviance: Bullying Nicholas D. Hendreson Dr. Vasilica Margarit Intro to Sociology May 17, 2015 In order to understand what bullying is we need to first define it. According to the video, bullying is getting pleasure from someone else’s pain. There are many kinds of bullying that can be analyzed. There is virtual bullying, physical bullying, verbal bullying, and cyber bullying. Empirical research would need to be used to dissect what bullying is. We cannot just use what we know to understand this. We would have to get specific details of a bullying incident. The empirical research would help me identify why was their bullying, who were the parties involved, was this an isolated incident or ongoing tactic. Bullying just can’t be summed up by one definition or term. It is a case by case scenario where pain is inflicted to hurt someone. Bullying starts at a young age. It starts in the school where kids make fun of each other by calling each other hurtful names, or spreading rumors that aren’t true. These two examples can bring much pain to a person not only at a young age but as an adult. It usually starts by one person who begins to cause pain to another, and they get their other friends involved. It becomes a trickle down affect to where you have 5 or more people bullying on one person. Peer pressure causes people to participate as they don’t want to be left out. The simple reason people usually give for this is because, “everyone else was...
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...ullying in schools occurs in different parts of the world, and children of all ages or grade levels could be affected. It is a life changing experience on the victim that is being bullied. This behavior is for no apparent reason as to why they were chosen to be victimized. There are different forms of bullying such as name calling, pushing, intimidation that is done to make the other person feel empowered and controlling over someone else. What is Bullying First, it is a behavior that is done intentional and purposeful. They chose the victim that they want to intimidate or scare. It could be for any reason such as the color of your hair or that you dress differently than anyone else. Examples of the different type of bullying is calling someone names, starting rumors that are untrue, pushing or hitting, and the abuse can go on for an extended period of time. I remember when I was in school and their was this girl who was being bullied it caused her not to participate in any extra curriculum activities and she would always be walking fast. I remember thinking who can help her and why are they being so cruel. Students in school today are very mean. Being bullied can cause a person to have future problems in their development from constant intimidation, low self esteem or living pure in fear. Who are the Victims Second, the victims may have something about them that is strange from anyone else. They may be passive in nature, don’t hang out with...
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...Bullying in Schools Patrick J. Mullan Empire State College Bullying in Schools There are times in one’s life when something so deeply touches us that we have to stop what we are doing and either blink, smile or cry. For me, such a moment occurred on January 3, 2013 when I read in The Staten Island Advance that a 15 year old girl threw herself in front of a bus while carrying a suicide note in her pocket. This young lady had lived close to my home in Staten Island. Her name was Amanda Cummings, a high school student and a very attractive young woman. It was revealed that she was the victim of bullying both at school. She was also bullied on her cell phone and on the internet when she was at home. Apparently there was some romantic imbroglio over a boy that triggered a group of teenagers to target Amanda with relentless bullying. The young Romeo was 19 years old and apparently he was also involved with the ringleader of the bullies. The gang of bullies urged Amanda to kill herself on numerous occasions. The 19 year old male eventually broke up with Amanda, but the bullying did not cease. Faced with non-ending bullying and the loss of the boy, Amanda felt that she had no choice but to end her short life. In the days that followed Amanda’s death, students at her school posted the vilest messages on her Facebook page and continued their bullying even after she was dead. They expressed happiness over her decision to die and ridiculed her. Not everyone on Facebook was abominable...
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...School bullying is a widespread issue that affects youths seriously in three essential parts of their lives educationally, psychologically and professionally. Bullying is sort of aggressive behavior against others such as, verbal by calling nasty names, physical by kicking, pushing or tripping up and social by everyone stopped talking to you. Despite some children bully others without aware to the results of their actions but bullying reflects adversely on the victims' lives and leads to be victimization to several disorders like anxiety, depression, loneliness and lose their opportunity to have an ordinary life. However, bullied children are more likely to expose themselves to suicide. On the contrary, perpetrators have less impact on their lives. In my opinion, bullying at school has significant effects in whole children lives. The following essay will discuss the negative effects of school bullying and its consequences. Academic achievement is the first aspects which influence by bullying at school. Therefore, bullied children live within fear, self blame, feel weak and its affect their personality traits and self confidence so this situation makes them unable to study well and they might hate going to school and tend to the truancy. Furthermore, they will lose their opportunities to participate with others or enjoy school activities. Hence, they will gain less academic performance and low educational attainment.There is a strong association between academic achievement...
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...Have you ever bullied or been bullied? If you have bullied or been bullied then you should know how bullying feels like. Bullying is very negative and creates major problems for our society. Nothing good comes out of bullying. It could very well change or ruin a person’s life. In fact, it does ruin many people’s lives. Kids can be mentally scarred if they are teased often. Even worse, they could be killed or fatally injured if the bullying gets extreme. There are many causes for bullying which must be taken care of before bullying can be stopped. T.V. violence, families in poverty, and mis-teachings are just several of the many serious causes for bullying. Bullying must be stopped or prevented no matter how long it will take, it is a deeply concerning matter. Bullying does not always have to be childish play, it can be extremely violent. People may be bruised, injured, or even killed. Kids under bad influence may turn very violent. Parents, relatives, friends, T.V., music and pictures may all influence people, especially when they are depressed or are in a lowered state of mind. Violence on T.V. is a very big influence, particularly the wrestling and fighting shows. Also, T.V. shows are quite readily available for anyone to watch. Kids may try “moves” on people at school because they believe it’s cool. As well, cooperation from childrens’ parents is important, some parents actually encourage their children to fight to look cool or don’t teach them properly. Kids must take their...
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...School Bullying Junel Loyola DeVry University School Bullying School bullying is a continuing major issue around the world today. Everyday someone in the world is falling victim to bullying. It is a kind of torment that we, as a society, should help prevent as much as possible. Bullying can take on several forms, both physically and mentally. Nevertheless, it is a type of abuse that can have both short term and long term effects on a person's life. Such abuse can lead to injury, psychological harm, or even death in some cases. In school, it was often noticeable that a student is being bullied. It can happen anywhere in the school: in hallways, in the cafeteria, or even inside classrooms. According to John Cloud (2012), current antibullying programs are a waste of time and money. School bullying still happens whether or not an antibullying program is adopted by the school (Jeong & Lee, 2013). If this is the case, then bullying may be more common than anyone thinks. As a society, we should eradicate bullying in order to protect the well-being of students and to deter physical and psychological harm from them. First, one must understand what bullying is and its causes and effects. Bullying can happen for many reasons. One can be bullied for being "different", doing something embarrassing, or being labeled by false rumors that makes the victim look bad to other people. It causes problems for students, such as physical or verbal abuse. Secondly, it is important to know...
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...Position Paper on Bullying in the Schools Prevalence of Bullying Behavior Peer victimization is a significant problem in U.S. schools. In 1999, an estimated 5% of students ages 12 through 18 reported fearing attack or harm at school (U.S. Department of Education [USDE], 2000). In a recent national study, Nansel, et al. (2001) found that about 30% of 6 t h - through 10 t h -grade students had been involved in bullying incidents with moderate or frequent regularity. Similar prevalence rates can be found in the state of Florida. For example, in a study by Bully Police, USA, they found that of the 2, 701, 022 school age children in Florida, approximately 442, 157 students were involved in bullying. Defining Bullying Researchers commonly define peer victimization or bullying as a negative act of aggression (or oppression) which is unprovoked, is deliberately intended to cause harm, is carried out repeatedly over time and involves an actual and/or perceived imbalance of power in which the aggressor or group of aggressors are physically or psychologically more powerful than the victim (Boulton & Underwood, 1992; Farrington, 1993; Olweus, 1999; Rigby, 1996; Smith & Thompson, 1991). To clarify further, the USDE (1998) indicates that bullying can take the form of physical abuse (e.g., hitting, punching), verbal abuse (e.g., name-calling, threats), emotional abuse (e.g., ostracizing, humiliating, maliciously gossiping, rating/ranking personal characteristics...
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...Bullying In Schools Bullying has grown to be a common mishap in our schools around the world. The effects of bullying have been found to be both mentally and physically damaging to the victim. The issue and effects of bullying is so astronomical that it should never be tolerated no matter how small. Studies show that 1 out of 4 kids get bullied every day. We will discuss where bullying can take place, the types of bullying that exist in the schools, how victims may feel, and how serious bullying really is in schools today! Bullying is defined as aggressive intentional behavior. Everyday bullying takes place in schools across the world. There have been many cases of children being bullied at school. School should be a place where children can come and learn in a peaceful environment! Children should never have to feel anxious or scared to go to school. Studies show that 1 out of 4 kids get bullied at school every day. Bullying affects children of any age. This is astonishing and heart breaking! This has to stop! As parents we must stay connected with our children. The more we know about their friends and interactions at school the more likely we are to spot changes in their home behavior or social interactions. We need to talk with our children every day about specifics of their day. We should explain to them what bullying is as parents and their teachers. Also inform them of what to do if they are getting bullied or see a friend getting bullied. Another way to stop bullying...
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... Bullying in schools for many has become an issue, and that issue for large part is the overwhelming effect it is having on our children that are being subjected to the bullying. Bullying is tragic and something that has gone on in every school since who can remember. Bullying in our schools, do the schools think it is a problem and if so how do we educate the school, students, and parents to end this cruelty. Bullying happens, every day in our schools, and profoundly many of us want to believe it doesn’t happen at all. Our children are victims and also the bully in many cases. Students if educated on what to look for in signs that they are being bullied and not just being played with will go a long way in helping them identify how to stop being the victim. Most students that are victims don’t know it and when they find out they are being bullied they can identify the bully. Many bullies when identified will shy away from it then. They grow off the fear they produce in the victim. Bullying takes place in our schools and it is time we stop portraying that it doesn’t. Working in a school and seeing it first hand, it is very hard to think at first that what you are seeing as bullying or is it just kids being kids. Administrators in our schools are now being educated on how to spot signs of bullying amongst students and how to identify the bullies themselves. This being done will also lead to parents understanding that bullying is an issue in our schools and to...
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