How Does Bullying Cause School Shootings?
Victims of bullying are often left with a scar whether it is physically or even emotionally. Bullying effects the victims in many different ways and the results of bullying could also ruin someone’s life. There are many things that could happen to the victims if the bullying is not stopped. As a start the victim could start to skip school in order to avoid the traditional bullying or to get away from the embarrassment that would have been a result of cyberbullying. The victim could turn to gateway drugs or alcohol in order to escape the bullied life that they go through. “Students who engage in bullying behavior are at increased risk for academic problems, substance use, and violent behavior later in adolescence and adulthood.” (Center for
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Disease Control, 2015). Bullying can break a person down emotionally. According to the Center for Disease Control the students who do happen to experience bullying are tend to have bad grades during the time that they are being bullied due to depression, sleep difficulties and anxiety.
Bullying and Suicide
According to the data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suicide is the 3rd leading death cause among teens. With that being said, there is a very strong connection between bullying and suicide. Suicide related to bullying can be associated with traditional bullying and cyberbullying. “Bully victims are between 2 to 9 times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims, according to studies by Yale University” (bullyingstatistics.org). This statistic alone lets us know that bullying is a huge problem in today’s society. Many victims to bullying believe that their way to escape all of the pain, insults, and terror is by taking their own life away. As a result there is so much pain and suffering that affects families, friends and other individuals when a bullied victim commits suicide. There are many signs and warnings to look out for someone who may be considering suicide:
• Withdrawing from friends, family and society (stompoutbullying.org)
• Talking about or showing interest in death or dying(bullyingstatistics.org)
• Giving away favorite possessions and saying goodbye to people (bullyingstatistics.org)
• Experiencing dramatic mood changes (stompoutbullying.org)
• Increasing Alcohol or other drug use (stompoutbullying.org)
Bullying and School Shootings
For plenty of time now anti-bullying groups have always tried to prove the connection between bullying and school shootings.
Due to the rare situations it is always hard to find out if bullying actually causes school shootings or does it have to do with the victim having some type of mental and psychological issues. Although according to pacer.org “One study shows that 60 percent of students with disabilities report being bullied regularly compared with 25 percent of all students.” With that being said it is safe to say that bullying could be the root problem for those victims. Furthermore bullying is also linked to school shootings. After being bullied and harassed some student victims believe that the only way to end bullying is to bringing some sort of weapon with them in order to protect themselves. “A new study based on a survey of more than 15,000 American high school students found that victims of bullying are nearly twice as likely to carry guns and other weapons at school.” Stated by the Centers for Disease Control’s survey. As a result of bullying these statistic numbers are too high and need to be stopped. There is no reason that any student should not feel safe while they are trying to get an …show more content…
education.
My story
When I was younger just starting middle school at a new school, I was desperate to make new friends. The first group of friends that I began to hang around turned out to be bullies. I remember the first test that I had in my math class, I didn’t know the answers. My former friend Gerald looked at me and realized that I was struggling with the test, so he told me to get the answer from the boy sitting in from of me named Mike. When I first asked Mike for help on the test he refused to help me. When I turned around I realized Gerald was looking at me, he told “you better tell him to give you the answers before you beat his ass”. Desperate for the answers on the test I did exactly what he told me to do and surely enough Mike gave me the answers. Looking back on that moment throughout high school and even now I felt bad about what happened. Ever since then I have always been one to stand up for other people whose voice is not loud enough to be heard, I refuse to be a bystander. Furthermore a bystander is a person who witness somethings bad happening and refuses to take action.
Bystanders are also those people who stand behind and record the bad thing that is going on. To help put an end to bullying these bystanders need to stand up and help out fellow students who are being bullied. Another way to prevent bullying is to have positive behavior interventions and support groups. According to the Illinois PBIS Network “Thus schools currently implementing PBIS with fidelity are likely to experience a decrease in behaviors associated with bullying as an effect of their school-wide PBIS efforts.” Meaning that schools that use the Illinois PBIS Network have lower bullying rates. This is just from one program in Illinois, and I believe that there are plenty more. I believe schools should hire programs like these in order to help prevent bullying at their school, and if the program is not in the schools budget then they should offer volunteer or up stander clubs at their
schools.
Solutions to help prevent, or end bullying for Students
Solutions Description
Understand school rules Some schools have strict policies about bullying, these policies are there to prevent bullying. (Stopbullying.gov)
Don’t Respond/Don’t Retaliate Getting back at a bully will only turn you in to one, your retaliation is what the bully wants. (Safeteens.com)
Speak with a trusted adult Involve a parent or school counselor to help fix the situation. (Safeteens.com)
Be a friend not a bystander Stand up and help out the situation, don’t allow other people to be abused by bullies. (Safeteens.com)
Solutions to Prevent and Report bullying for Parents
Solutions Description
Be Aware of what your kids are doing online Talk with your kids about Bullying and cyberbullying and other issues regularly (stopbullying.gov) Keep the evidence Record dates and times of the instances, use this as evidence in order to report a case for bullying. (stopbullying.gov)
Get the Facts Find out what is really happen from both sides and why it is happening. (stopbullying.gov)
Report the problem No only should you report the case to the school, but also if it necessary report the situation to the police. (stopbullying.gov)
Bullying is and has always been a huge problem in today’s society and it needs to be dealt with. With bullying continuing to go on, the attempted suicides and school shootings will continue to happen. Victims have been affected by bullying for too long, Schools, parents and other student bystanders need to stand up and put an end to bullying. Also there are many programs that will help schools with high bullying rates, also there are teachers and counselor who need to step up their job and stop bullying when they see it. There are many solutions that have been proposed and now they need to be taken into action.
Disease Control, 2015). Bullying can break a person down emotionally. According to the Center for Disease Control the students who do happen to experience bullying are tend to have bad grades during the time that they are being bullied due to depression, sleep difficulties and anxiety.
Bullying and Suicide
According to the data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suicide is the 3rd leading death cause among teens. With that being said, there is a very strong connection between bullying and suicide. Suicide related to bullying can be associated with traditional bullying and cyberbullying. “Bully victims are between 2 to 9 times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims, according to studies by Yale University” (bullyingstatistics.org). This statistic alone lets us know that bullying is a huge problem in today’s society. Many victims to bullying believe that their way to escape all of the pain, insults, and terror is by taking their own life away. As a result there is so much pain and suffering that affects families, friends and other individuals when a bullied victim commits suicide. There are many signs and warnings to look out for someone who may be considering suicide:
• Withdrawing from friends, family and society (stompoutbullying.org)
• Talking about or showing interest in death or dying(bullyingstatistics.org)
• Giving away favorite possessions and saying goodbye to people (bullyingstatistics.org)
• Experiencing dramatic mood changes (stompoutbullying.org)
• Increasing Alcohol or other drug use (stompoutbullying.org)
Bullying and School Shootings
For plenty of time now anti-bullying groups have always tried to prove the connection between bullying and school shootings.
Due to the rare situations it is always hard to find out if bullying actually causes school shootings or does it have to do with the victim having some type of mental and psychological issues. Although according to pacer.org “One study shows that 60 percent of students with disabilities report being bullied regularly compared with 25 percent of all students.” With that being said it is safe to say that bullying could be the root problem for those victims. Furthermore bullying is also linked to school shootings. After being bullied and harassed some student victims believe that the only way to end bullying is to bringing some sort of weapon with them in order to protect themselves. “A new study based on a survey of more than 15,000 American high school students found that victims of bullying are nearly twice as likely to carry guns and other weapons at school.” Stated by the Centers for Disease Control’s survey. As a result of bullying these statistic numbers are too high and need to be stopped. There is no reason that any student should not feel safe while they are trying to get an …show more content…
education.
My story
When I was younger just starting middle school at a new school, I was desperate to make new friends. The first group of friends that I began to hang around turned out to be bullies. I remember the first test that I had in my math class, I didn’t know the answers. My former friend Gerald looked at me and realized that I was struggling with the test, so he told me to get the answer from the boy sitting in from of me named Mike. When I first asked Mike for help on the test he refused to help me. When I turned around I realized Gerald was looking at me, he told “you better tell him to give you the answers before you beat his ass”. Desperate for the answers on the test I did exactly what he told me to do and surely enough Mike gave me the answers. Looking back on that moment throughout high school and even now I felt bad about what happened. Ever since then I have always been one to stand up for other people whose voice is not loud enough to be heard, I refuse to be a bystander. Furthermore a bystander is a person who witness somethings bad happening and refuses to take action.
Bystanders are also those people who stand behind and record the bad thing that is going on. To help put an end to bullying these bystanders need to stand up and help out fellow students who are being bullied. Another way to prevent bullying is to have positive behavior interventions and support groups. According to the Illinois PBIS Network “Thus schools currently implementing PBIS with fidelity are likely to experience a decrease in behaviors associated with bullying as an effect of their school-wide PBIS efforts.” Meaning that schools that use the Illinois PBIS Network have lower bullying rates. This is just from one program in Illinois, and I believe that there are plenty more. I believe schools should hire programs like these in order to help prevent bullying at their school, and if the program is not in the schools budget then they should offer volunteer or up stander clubs at their
schools.
Solutions to help prevent, or end bullying for Students
Solutions Description
Understand school rules Some schools have strict policies about bullying, these policies are there to prevent bullying. (Stopbullying.gov)
Don’t Respond/Don’t Retaliate Getting back at a bully will only turn you in to one, your retaliation is what the bully wants. (Safeteens.com)
Speak with a trusted adult Involve a parent or school counselor to help fix the situation. (Safeteens.com)
Be a friend not a bystander Stand up and help out the situation, don’t allow other people to be abused by bullies. (Safeteens.com)
Solutions to Prevent and Report bullying for Parents
Solutions Description
Be Aware of what your kids are doing online Talk with your kids about Bullying and cyberbullying and other issues regularly (stopbullying.gov) Keep the evidence Record dates and times of the instances, use this as evidence in order to report a case for bullying. (stopbullying.gov)
Get the Facts Find out what is really happen from both sides and why it is happening. (stopbullying.gov)
Report the problem No only should you report the case to the school, but also if it necessary report the situation to the police. (stopbullying.gov)
Bullying is and has always been a huge problem in today’s society and it needs to be dealt with. With bullying continuing to go on, the attempted suicides and school shootings will continue to happen. Victims have been affected by bullying for too long, Schools, parents and other student bystanders need to stand up and put an end to bullying. Also there are many programs that will help schools with high bullying rates, also there are teachers and counselor who need to step up their job and stop bullying when they see it. There are many solutions that have been proposed and now they need to be taken into action.