We need to confront the bully because people can be driven to make some terrible choices. For example, take the Columbine shooting massacre for instance, “the young gunmen attributed their acts to retaliation for years of taunting that they said friends and relatives had inflicted on them..” (PERSONAL HEALTH; A Bully’s Future, From Hard Life to Hard Time). After being bullied for so long, they made a bad choice that went down in history. School should be a safe environment for kids and they pushed to the edge to harm people to get back at the bullies. Bullies can make the victim harm themselves or worse. According to the CDC, there are about 4,400 deaths per year from suicide. For every suicide, there are about 100 attempts. Imagine knowing a bully pushed someone over the edge enough to…
There has been a progression of bullying happening as many may have noticed, in order to be able to get the bullying to stop or to even calm down someone needs to step up and have a talk, or needs to discipline the bullies. Walking down hallways at school, people say mean words, they do not think of other people's feelings as they say the cruel words coming out of their mouths. Mostly, the reasons being why children, and young adults are usually bullying someone may be because they were not disciplined enough as a child, their parents may have not been around to do so, or they may have a rough life at home. The reasoning trying to be stated is the bullying comes from selfish people. A person can tell if somebody else is selfish or not because selfish people tend to block out what others are feeling around them, how their days went, and/or what is going on in their lives. Selfish people do not care about anyone else except for themselves. A selfish person could see somebody with nothing to their name and still not help them because they do not want to do anything for anybody else. Everyone may have a friend or a family member who they may think is a selfish person, as many people may know a person that is selfish do not be afraid to stand up to them and knock them down and tell them what they are doing is wrong. Selfish people are everywhere in todayś society and they do not care if…
Bullying, an unfortunate but seemingly common human activity, has scattered itself through societies since the beginning of time. Today we experience the overwhelming attention bullying has garnered. With attention come questions. Is this attention warranted or exaggerated? Why? Many believe this attention is exaggerated but considering the cause and effect of bullying, the attention is definitely warranted and not exaggerated. On another note, taking action towards young children/adults accused of bullying as a crime is not appropriate. The attention for bullying is warranted because of the tragic effects and it’s continued widespread through technology, but that doesn’t mean these young, innocent children should be punished as criminals due to their youth and level of maturity.…
W.E Jacobs and Maureen McMahon in their article “Counterpoint: School Children Should Learn to Defend Themselves against Bullies” from the Points of Reference Center expresses why they believe that children should be able to defend themselves from bullies. Jacobs and McMahon argue that bullying is everywhere and has two aspects which is the victim that is supposed to act a certain way to the bully and the bully who shows the aggression. Most of the bullying going on now a days has to do with children, mostly in schools or on social networking. Many people do want to stop this such as teachers and parents but they are unable to because it doesn’t happen around them (Jacobs and McMahon np).…
Bullies, who are they and how do we protect our children and society from them? This is a question that is asked everyday by parents that have children that have been bullied. Do we place blame on our schools for not protecting our children from the bullies or do we place the blame on the parents of the bully? We first need to try to figure out how to help these children or if there are any actions we can take to help them. Should there be harsher punishments for the children that bully others? In this paper we are going to try to find solutions to some of these issues.…
Bullying has become an epidemic, and it needs to come to an end. If people will stand up for each other and protect each other, I believe bullying would cease to be effective. It preys on those who do not have the confidence to defend themselves. Often times, the bully hurts others as a way of protecting himself. He believes that if he attacks others, then they will not know he himself is hurting, or has been hurt in the past. It becomes a coping mechanism for him. The biggest thing to keep in mind is that bullying should not be responded to with more violence. They need to be shown love, but firm love. A love that says, “I love you enough to not let you continue down this path. Let me show you another way.” Then you are not only l protecting those that the bully hurts, but also you are protecting the bully himself in the long run.…
More than ten-thousand kids get bullied each day, causing more than one-thousand teenagers to commit suicide at such a young age. You need to ask yourself these questions, have you ever been jealous of someone else, talked about someone else, or made fun of someone else? If you said yes to any of these questions you’re a bully, or your about to be one, so stop now! A bully is worse than a bystander because it’s their fault if the victim commits suicide, they influence the bystander, and they take their problems out on others.…
In today's society it is hard for schools and adults to properly identify and deal with bullying. It is hard to ignore the fact that most bullying goes unnoticed or unreported in schools, a place where adults are constantly present. With the exposure bullying has gotten in recent years people would think that schools have sophisticated methods of dealing with bullying, however this is not the case in most schools. Throughout many schools it can be seen that not enough is done to resolve the bullying and harassment happening on a day to day bases. Many schools work very hard in hopes that one day bullying will end, but it is hard for schools to know what to classify as bullying or harassment, since most of it can start outside of school grounds…
In conclusion, children are bullied because they are smaller, weaker, and younger. Children might become a bully because of something that is happening at home like abuse. Bullies are worse than bystanders because, they lose trust in others, they feel guilty for what they did, they are the reason why the victim kills themselves, and they have to suffer a humongous consequence. So, what are you going to do? Become a bully or stand against…
Right now, 160,000 kids are either being bullied at school or are at home because they can’t face going to school! This is a frightening statistic. No child should be scared to go to school. The sad thing is that every 1 in 7 students in each grade are either a bully or has been a victim of bullying. No one has the right to think they anyone is lesser than them. No one has the right to put anyone down. The only way we can deal with bullies is to stand up to them, show them that the way they are treating others is unacceptable, and needs to be changed. Bullies expect that people treat them with respect, but they do not show that to anyone! Bullying is taking over schools, and it needs to be controlled.…
Secondly, over 4,400 teens take their lives each year from bullying. 100 teens attempt it each year. 14% of teen’s conceder it, but only 7% of teens actually tries it. Have you ever considered it? In 1996 more teens died from suicide than cancer, heart disease, aids, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza and chronic lung disease CONBINED! That is a serious problem. Many teen have committed suicide, for example Megan Myers she was cyber bullied so bad that she hung herself 3 weeks before her 14th birthday. There is way more stories just like that. It’s not fair how teens take their lives because of bullying. It gets even worse when students bring guns to school to “get back everyone who has ever hurt them.” 75% of school shootings are because teens are on suicide missions so they kill there selves…
Until recently, children who were victims of bullying in the classroom or on the playground could find peace at home or at school. Students who use the computers to bully people should be prosecuted for cyber bullying made on social media.…
Schools need to be safe for kids to learn. 160,000 kids skip schools because of the constant fear of being bullied. If they fear about being bullied then it is not safe. About 30% of the student are either the victim or bully, or both. 77% of kids are bullied verbally and mentally abused. Out of the 77%, 14% suffer depression and sieve abuse. About 64.5% reported that they have been bullied twice a year, 18.5% have reported bullying incidents twice a month. Without punishments schools won’t be safe to learn because bullies get away with…
There should be higher consequences for someone who bullies. Bullying kills kids and teens. Youths today do not realize that words do hurt. It is not just words that hurt, actions hurt to. Bullying is not just face to face. Cyberbullying has a big impact on bullying too, not just face to face. It happens on any online site. Most online sites that bullying occurs on is MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Bullying is a serious problem. It can and has led to suicide.…
First, I would like to explain the aspects and outcomes of bullying and being bullied. A lot people think being bullied is having someone threaten to take your lunch money or beating you up after school, that isn’t always the case. In some situations, bullying can go to the extreme. Bullying can take a person to the point of no return and can lead some of the calmest people into dangerous acts like self-harm and…