...Imagine waking up to the cops breaking into your house and arresting you because your child is a bully. Bullying is a problem and it has to be taken care of because it is causing others pain 24/7 and some are bringing it to the government. Parents should be punished if their child is a bully. Parents of bullies should be punished because they cause others pain. states “One New York student has gotten bullied so much that when she gets out of highschool she is going to file a lawsuit against each and every person and their parents that has bullied her.” Bullying is a big enough problem that president Barack Obama got involved. Bullying affects the victim mentally too. “Studies show that people that are being bullied or has been bullied makes...
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...Bullies Need Therapy Not Punishment Bullies are not born, circumstances make bullies. Therefore why can bullies not be helped to make them better adults and have a brighter future? Everyone needs to understand the causes of bullying and try to help prevent it from the underlying cause. By punishing a bully, does that end the problem of bullying or result in more hatred and aggressiveness on part of the bully? “Since bullies are made, not born, rehabilitation is an attainable and preferable alternative to resorting to harsh reprimands or turning a blind eye” (Hanson). Bullying is a form of youth violence. It is an unwanted aggressive behaviour by one or a group of young persons. It is normally repeated frequently and affects the person physically, psychologically, socially, or educationally. Bullying can be in the form of physical, verbal or social aggression. Another form of bullying is cyber-bullying, which involves bullying through e-mail, a chat room, instant messaging, a website, text messaging, or videos or pictures posted on websites or sent through cell phones (Understanding Bullying - Fact Sheet). The first response to deal with a bully is normally to punish them. They are regarded as a ruthless, emotionless and bad person, who hurt others and therefore they cannot be helped. But most of the time, those bullies do not even realise the impact their behaviours are having on the victims. There are times when they have actually been victims of bullying themselves...
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...would want to do everything they can for their children to be comfortable going to school and feeling safe. The ongoing and growing problem that is causing such disturbance is bullying. Bullying is a social interaction where a more dominant individual, who is the bully, exhibits aggressive behavior that is intended to, and does, in fact, cause distress to a less dominant individual which is the victim. The aggressive behavior can be direct physical contact and/or a verbal attack that can be direct or indirect (Bullying). Bullying includes harassment, intimidation to varying degrees, taunting and ridicule (Ferrell-Smith). About 50% of high school students said they have bullied someone in the past year. Forty seven percent said they had been bullied, teased or taunted in a way that seriously upset them in the past year. Nearly 40% of bullied girls and 46% of bullied boys in grades 3 through 12 have been bullied a year or longer, yet fewer than 50% of bullied students have told a parent (Billitteri). Many students that are being bullied are suffering silently. Because bullying can have harmful and sometimes irreversible effects, it should be taken more seriously. Greater consequences should be given out. Those who bully should be prosecuted. Bullying goes beyond hurting the feelings of victims, it does great damage mentally and psychologically. It can result in physical injury or emotional trauma (Ferrell-Smith). Bullying is also dangerous because...
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...Bullies Behind Bars Creating and Enforcing Bullying Laws in the United States ENG120 Abstract In the past decade there have been a growing number of teenage suicide attempts and successes. Many of these come from some form of bullying and harassment in our schools. Bullies leave scars on our children that last long into their adulthood; if they are lucky enough to make it to adulthood. This behavior has long been accepted as “boys will be boys.” Well boys are no longer boys and girls are sometimes more cruel than boys. It’s time we as parents and adults tell these bullies that their behavior has consequences and we as a society will no longer accept their behavior. Creating and Enforcing Bullying Laws in the United States. After my parents split up, life as I had known it for 9 years had changed. My father was gone and we were now living in a small apartment and my mother was on food stamps. I didn’t get my clothes from the store any longer. My clothes came from the church and lots of kids in school let me know it every day. I was called poor, told I was wearing others trash, called names and even tripped a few times. It only lasted a month or so, and then they moved on to the next one and left me alone. Today the bullies are going worldwide on the web. They are harassing you until you want to crawl in a hole and die and unfortunately some do just that. I was fortunate that my bullying experience was short lived, but it never left my mind. When I had my daughter...
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...young people that go through it. It knocks their self-esteem and makes them lose their confidence, and can make them dread going to school each day. In extreme cases, young people can become suicidal as a result of bullying, while in other very serious cases, it can get out of hand and lead to the bully murdering their victim. It’s also a huge problem for parents and teachers, because stopping bullying is a hard task and they often don’t know the best ways to go about it. There are three key elements to stopping bullying: educating the bullies, imposing greater sanctions for the bullies, and protecting the victim. The reason that bullies must be educated is that many of them are not aware of exactly how much they are hurting their victim. In serious cases, it is probably wholly deliberate, but even then, most bullies wouldn’t want their victim to become as suicidal as they have made them. Bullying can come in all sorts of forms and one that affects girls in particular is a group of so-called friends excluding them from everything. In cases like these, if the bullies understood that they had become bullies picking on a victim, they may think twice. The second way to deal with the bullies is to punish them. This could be the only thing that works for incredibly nasty people, because they will only care when it begins to affect them. Bullying often isn’t taken seriously enough; for example, if you punched a person in the middle of the street you would probably be arrested, but if...
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...rarely implemented and carried out correctly, causing them to not just be ineffective; but causing them to have adverse effects. We have tried these policies in our schools , it has been proven that they have done more harm than good; it is now time to remove these policies from our schools. The “school to prison pipeline," is a recent national trend where children are pushed out of public schools, and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Many of these children have learning disabilities, histories of poverty, and histories of abuse and neglect. There students would benefit from additional educational and counseling services. Instead, they are isolated, punished and pushed out. Many "Zero-tolerance" policies criminalize minor infractions of school rules. Cops in schools are criminalizing behavior that should be handled inside the school. Students of color are especially vulnerable to push-out trends and the harsh application of discipline. (eric.edu.gov) In recent years the legal implications from “Zero Tolerance” policies have risen greatly. Why? Attorney Jim Cusing, says “by removing the administrators' ability to tailor punishments to the student by considering extenuating circumstances, zero tolerance policies have demanded a perverse form of consistency that results in large numbers of...
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...defined in terms of intentional and repeated interactions on the part of the perpetrator who is perceived to be more powerful than the victim: the perpetrator’s ability to act anonymously is indicative of a form of power he or she holds over the victim As in the case of traditional bullying, cyberbullying often occurs as a result of such relationship difficulties as the break-up of a friendship or romance, envy of a peer’s success, intolerance of particular groups on the grounds of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or disability, and ganging up on one individual (Duncan, Neil, Rivers, Ian, 2012). Bullying has taken on new heights and sometimes victims of bullies suffer severe and lasting consequences. Everyday there is more and more stories on the consequences of what can happen when a person becomes a victim of bullies. Suicide and violence has risen in schools because of children being bullied. What are the risk factors for bullying? Is one type of person more likely to be bullied? What are the schools doing to protect children from becoming a victim? Bullying is typically more common...
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...after an aggressive act causes repetition of the act to again gain a reward. Bandura’s Bobo Doll Experiment revealed children who were exposed to aggressive models were more likely to show imitative aggressive behaviour. Bullying can occur anywhere where social interaction is prevalent. The social learning theory suggests bullying starts with anyone at anytime (generally bullies are aggressive, angry and coercive). Bullies are made not born- lack of empathy is a large component of what makes a bully. Those who experience bullying may consequently develop psychological issues, which then influence their society in being responsible for providing aid such as counselling and social repercussions. Solutions and prevention strategies Various strategies exist in attempt to rule out bullying and aggression, and range from advice to help short term bullying to counseling and mentoring for long-term effects. Prevention of becoming a victim can be achieved through learning to communicate effectively and building conflict resolution skills, assertiveness and self-respect. With these factors an individual should acquire the knowledge to recognise characteristics of bullying and accordingly handle the situation to prevent becoming a victim. Those already victims can avert further victimisation by, essentially, understanding...
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...Workplace bullying can also affect one’s self efficacy. An employee with low self efficacy, when bullied, can experience a decline in their already low self efficacy which may decrease his/her need for achievement, need for power, and need for affiliation based on McClelland’s theory of needs. There are not too many people, which if they are being bullied would want to achieve a new position, attain power, or even want to belong to such a company where other employee’s are bullies. Q3) If you were a victim of workplace bullying, what steps would you take to try to reduce its occurrence? What strategies would be most effective? What strategies might be ineffective? What would you do if one of your colleagues was a victim of an abusive supervisor? If I were a victim of workplace bullying, I would first approach my bully and inform him/her of the inappropriate behavior. If the behavior continued and the bully was not management, then I would go to management and let them know there is a problem. If the bully was a part of management, I would seek help from the special groups in most companies that are dedicated to...
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...“Bully.” We hear this word too often too think anything of it. The definition of the word bully is “A person who uses strength to harm or intimidate the weaker.” Everyday teens and young adults are ending their lives because of everything they hear. People don’t understand the pain they feel. I for one don’t, but I know there are people who do. “ Bully” isn’t a term to throw around randomly for no reason. Bullying needs to stop. More teenagers die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, birth defects, AIDS, stroke pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease combined. 160,000 students don’t want to go to school for fear of bullying. When an adult is charged with harassment , they are being charged for, essentially, bullying another person. So why wouldn’t another teenager? In Fairhaven, Massachusetts, a teenager was charged with manslaughter...
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...Larson-Bullying is like a cancer. It’s deadly, but can be cured. This torment negatively impacts the victim, the bully, and the bystander. A quote from once first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, said “ No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”. Bullying can really hurt the victim in a way you would never see because it hurts on the inside. It can also show on the outside like cutting or by isolating yourself from others. Most bystanders won't do anything because they are scared they will end up being bullied. How they respond directly affects them. Effects of bullying on the victim can have a very big impact. Statistics from factretriever.com states half of all children are bullied at sometime during their...
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...Report What is bullying? Bullying is about control and abuse. When you bully someone you really hurt them emotionally and sometime physically. Bullying is something that happens all the time with children and it's something that should not be taken lightly. Bullying can hurt people socially and sometimes lead to death. Children and adolescents who are bullied are at more of a risk for mental health problems. The mental health problems could include depression, anxiety, headaches, and problems adjusting to school. Bullying can also cause long-term damage to a child's self-esteem. Children and adolescents who are bullies are at a higher risk for substance use, academic problems, and violence to others later in life. Children or adolescents who are bullies and victims suffer the most serious effects of bullying and are at greater risk for mental and behavioral problems than those who are only bullied or who are only bullies. Those who bully others and those who are bullied are at higher risk for depression, NICHD research studies show. There are three components of bullying. One is power imbalance. When there is an imbalance of power, it is hard for the target to defend him or herself against bully's attacks. The difference in imbalance can be physical or psychological. For example in cases of physical imbalance the bully might be larger or stronger, older, or there may be a gang of bullies targeting the victim. Psychological imbalances are harder to recognize...
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...This article by Kowalski titled How to Handle a Bully addresses the topic of how help someone who is being bullied. The article begins by stating that “Meanness comes in many forms, and you can stop them all.” This statement is supposed to plant the seed in the reader's mind that bullying is easily avoidable. In the body of the article, it discusses solutions and proper ways to address bullies. The best way appears to be to address them immediately. The article concludes by explaining that students need to be involved in school rules against bullies. The link to your survey https://www.ditchthelabel.org/research-papers/the-annual-bullying-survey-2017/ Here is a survey/study that I found online. There were a few shocking findings when I...
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...I thought about how suicide rates have gone up in the past few years and why that could be. According to Ltd (2017), “In the last 45 years’ suicide rates have increased by 60% worldwide.” Friendships are extremely important in the life of a bully victim because a child can cope more easily with the support of friends. Friends can comfort the victim, help them not feel alone, encourage them to stand up for themselves, and help them get through the psychological traumas of being bullied. If more individuals stand up and act to punish the bullies there could be a change in society. I do not think it is realistic to think that bullies will be completely extinct, but I believe that there are ways to easily prevent and prohibit...
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...practice. There needs to be more awareness on bullying; at times it seems to be swept under the rug, ignore it and it will get better. This seams to be the best way to deal with anything that is not understood, get rid of the evidence and everything will be better. But it is not getting better, daily you hear of a child losing their life due to the effects of bullying, whether it be from death, or depression. No child should have to feel the effects of this, or have to live this daily because it is easier to ignore the situation than to find a solution. Hurtful words and actions taking place in the schools are unfortunate not only for the victim but also the bully and the bystanders; Bullying is out of hand and needs to be stopped. Children and young adults who are bullied tend to have a low self-esteem, and little to no confidence which can make them dread going to school. The effects of bullying are many, it starts with low self-esteem and according to researchers serious cases of bullying can end in suicide or murder. This is not only hard on the victim and the bully, but it is also hard on the parents, teachers and administration. There is not a cut and dry answer on how to stop bullying and most cases are different than the last. This is what makes it so hard to control, because it takes time and energy to evaluate the case and find an answer. Martin Greer wrote the blog “Why Don't Students Report Being Bullied”, and states two reasons; children that are bullied tell adults...
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