Bullying Awareness
Bullying Awareness
Bullying has become a great concern to many people, and parents especially because of kids and teenagers who have emotionally and physically suffered from being bullied by their classmates. Students have been pushed, hit, and verbally bullied by others and adults don’t think this type of actions are so serious and prefer to ignore it. In the past years there has been cases of suicide and murder of students who have been bullied and it has caught many schools attention. Is not that bullying has become more common now a days. The difference is that the media is making this problem more public than it used to and it is making people more cautious about this problem. Now there are schools that want to take action into preventing this type of conduct within the students by implementing bullying awareness programs. Is this change the real solution in preventing bullying? First we have to understand the meaning of this word or else my whole point is not going to make sense. According to the dictionary, “bullying is the use of strength or influence to intimidate someone else”. The whole purpose of it is to force another person to do what one wants. We have to be realistic and understand that creating programs specifically created for this purpose will not resolve the problem, and here is why. If that is the meaning of bullying then every single person in the world has being bullied, people always tell us what to do or not to do, we have been criticized, insulted, and offended by others. It is up to us as an individual to decide if we are going to allow this type of aggravations affect us in any way. There is nobody out there that can take control over our feelings other than ourselves. If schools create a bullying awareness program everyone already knows what we are going to be told, but that doesn’t mean that everyone in the program is going to listen and actually do what they are expected to do. People already know what is right and wrong, teenagers
Bullying has become a great concern to many people, and parents especially because of kids and teenagers who have emotionally and physically suffered from being bullied by their classmates. Students have been pushed, hit, and verbally bullied by others and adults don’t think this type of actions are so serious and prefer to ignore it. In the past years there has been cases of suicide and murder of students who have been bullied and it has caught many schools attention. Is not that bullying has become more common now a days. The difference is that the media is making this problem more public than it used to and it is making people more cautious about this problem. Now there are schools that want to take action into preventing this type of conduct within the students by implementing bullying awareness programs. Is this change the real solution in preventing bullying? First we have to understand the meaning of this word or else my whole point is not going to make sense. According to the dictionary, “bullying is the use of strength or influence to intimidate someone else”. The whole purpose of it is to force another person to do what one wants. We have to be realistic and understand that creating programs specifically created for this purpose will not resolve the problem, and here is why. If that is the meaning of bullying then every single person in the world has being bullied, people always tell us what to do or not to do, we have been criticized, insulted, and offended by others. It is up to us as an individual to decide if we are going to allow this type of aggravations affect us in any way. There is nobody out there that can take control over our feelings other than ourselves. If schools create a bullying awareness program everyone already knows what we are going to be told, but that doesn’t mean that everyone in the program is going to listen and actually do what they are expected to do. People already know what is right and wrong, teenagers