Although, equality has been fought for years the world is not perfect, and bullying and harassment still exists and now more than ever amongst teens. Before social media became a big part of teens daily lives the place where most of the bullying took place was in high school. High school was the main place where bullying and harassment started and expanded. Now, harassment and bullying in high schools, as well as in social media, has become a tragic issue in many of these teens lives. As previously briefly mentioned, bullying, harassment, online bullying, and online harassment are the reasons why most teens take the onerous decision of taking their own life away to stop feeling pain or unwanted. All these are ongoing atrocious activities caused …show more content…
Currently this year, 2017, there is about two thousand - seventy kids from grades 9th to 12th. The survey was given to all grades of kids ages 14-18. The questions on this particular survey varied from whether an individual was harassed or knew someone that was and what was done about it, if anything was done. Bullying and harassment is such a complicated concept in Madera High, as well as in most other places, because to some individuals bullying and harassment can vary meaning not everyone has the same self esteem or definition for both of these concepts. Schools for a long time did not deal with harassment the law dealt with it. However, schools are now being sued and losing because no one is taking action upon this deadly issue that is making kids not want to attend school because of the harassment received by other individuals. This has definitely become a school issue because schools are now getting sued more than ever for taking action incorrectly against a student and also for not taking action when supposed to, which is why the survey was done at Madera High, because it is extremely important financially and reputationally, to know what is going on with the students at each school. The results from the survey conducted at Madera High were very …show more content…
This survey statistics showed that bullying and harassment was not a huge issue, but the bullying that did occur was not dealt with appropriately by the school staff members. Why can that be? Part of this could be because the teens don’t speak up due to the fact that now in days that is considered “snitching” or simply because staff members do not have a protocol in place. One of the questions in the survey was, “If you ever experienced a form of bullying, how did it make you feel? Did you go to someone for help?” Stephanie Soliz, a student, responded, “It made me feel scared and it made me fear interacting with new people. I did go to someone for help I went to my teacher but she didn’t really help.” This student opened up to her teacher and nothing was done about it. If someone speaks up and nothing is done what is there to do next? It is just a helpless feeling teens deal with all on their own because of situations like