...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...
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...Madera High School staff does not have the right people for those who suffer bullying to go to. When a student tells a teacher about the bullying that the teens is going through the teen expects to receive help from the staff members. The thing is that the students do not have a specific place to go to when the teen is going through bullying. In the survey conducted students were asked that in a scale from 1-10 how often do people get bullied in Madera High School and there was an average of 135 students whom said that there was people being bullied from about 5-7. Meaning that bullying is most likely seen in High School. From these statistics not every single one was reported causing the students to decide to avoid going to school because...
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...of Research) Bullying and Academic Performance of the Grade 7 students in Andres M. Luciano High School CECILIA G. TULABOT Master of Arts in Education Major in Educational Management Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction In schools, bullying occurs in all areas. It can occur in nearly any part in or around the school building, thought it more often occurs in recess, hallways, bathrooms, on school buses and waiting for buses, classes that require group work or after school activities. Bullying in school sometimes consist of a group of students taking advantage of or isolating one student in particular and gaining the loyalty of bystanders, who, in some cases want to avoid becoming the next victim. School bullying is a widespread issue that affects secondary school students in three essential parts of their lives; psychologically, educationally and professionally. Bullying is a sort of aggressive behavior against others such as, verbal by calling nasty names, physical by kicking, pushing or tripping up and social by everyone stopped talking to you. Academic achievement is the first aspect which influences bullying at school. therefore, bullied children live within fear, self-blame, feel weak and it affects their personality traits and self-confidence, so this situation makes them unable to study well and they might hate going to school. Furthermore, they will lose their opportunities to participate with others or enjoy school activities. Hence...
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...In colloquial speech, bullying is most often used to describe a form of harassment associated with being performed by a child who is older, stronger, or otherwise more powerful socially, upon weaker peers. Bullying can occur in situations including in school or college/university, the workplace, by neighbours, and between countries. Whatever the situation the power structure is typically evident between the bully and victim. It seems to those outside the relationship that the bully's power depends only upon the perception of the victim, with the victim being too intimidated to put up effective resistance. However the victim usually has just cause to be afraid of the bully due to the threat and actually carrying out of physical/sexual violence, or loss of livelihood. Bullying is behind most claims of discrimination in the workplace. Types of bullying Bullying is when someone repeatedly acts or says things to have power over another person. Bullies mainly use a combination of intimidation and humiliation to torment others. The following is some examples of bullying techniques: * Calling the victim names and stating the victim is useless at whatever they do * Spreading gossip and rumours about him/her * Threats of job loss and disciplinary action for unspecified reasons * Constant negative criticism for unspecified allegations * Taking the victim's possessions or taking control of the victim's work * Demoting the victim * Making the victim do what they do not want...
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...Bullying Research question- Why do people in high school bully each other? Outline I. Introduction- thesis II. What is Bullying? a. Definition of Bullying b. Who is affected? III. Effects of Bullying a. Extreme stress b. Poor Academic Performance c. Suicide d. Drug use IV. How to stop Bullying a. Parents Involvement V. Conclusion Bullying is when someone or a group of people with more power repeatedly and intentionally causes hurt or harm to another person or group of people who feel helpless to respond. In school, this has become a common problem causing many parents to be concern as to the affects of this with their children. Children that are bullied by other school mates are often times depress have poor grades in school and socially not as involve as other kids in school activities or activities at home. This leaves a major and pressing question, why do children in high school bully each other? Bullying is the use of force to abuse or intimidate others. The behavior can be habitual and involve an imbalance of social or physical power. It can include verbal harassment or threat, physical assault and may be directed repeatedly towards particular victims, perhaps on grounds of race, religion, gender, sexuality, or ability. If bullying is done by a group, it is called mobbing. The victim of bullying is sometimes referred to as a "target". Bullying can occur in any context in which human beings...
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...Robert Cooney 1/26/16 EN-102-024 1300 Words Mean Girls In Real Life In most high school’s around the world there is always that clique that is the most popular and thinks they are the best. The teenagers in those cliques are usually the most ill-mannered people you will ever meet. As sad as it is to say, every high school has a clique that is rude. Whether the people like it or not bullying happens. Many people talk about how they were bullied in high school and how they were not treated the way everyone wants to be treated. The film accurately describes female high school bullies , the role of cliques in schools, and bullying. Mean Girls, is a movie that was released in 2004, and is about bullies in high school. This movie portrays female high school bullies very accurately. Whether showing how they act around boys or backstabbing each other. They want to prove the school that they are the prettiest. The character that shows the most competitiveness of being the prettiest is Regina. She creates a book full of...
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...Stop The Bullying Every day, on every playground and hallway in our American schools, children, youths, and teens are harassed, tormented, made fun, physically and mentally abused and embarrassed by bullies. Is your child one of these bullies or a victim of bullying? This bully behavior is not only happening in the United States but all over the world. Many children and youths observe miserably as other school children get bullied at school. Bullies usually pick on personalities and individuals who are weaker than themselves, so they can build themselves to feel better about themselves. Sadly to say, many individuals have witnessed bullying or been a bully themselves. As parents, school administrators and citizens of a community we need to unite and stand up to bullies and give our children the tools, knowledge and skills to reach out for help from their peers, teachers and parents. In many school systems across the nation, plans to protect students from the growing occurrence of bullying are being developed. Bullying within our school systems has become a nationwide growth and development of strategies and proposals between parents, teachers, school administrators and government to assist our school systems to promote antibullying programs, therefore giving the kids who are being bullied an outlet to reach out for help. The current antibully programs in the school systems are not effective because they are based on self-reporting systems and those have been shown...
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...Bullying has been a very challenging issue to resolve for many years. It is increasingly spreading by the use of social media, where most bullies spread malice at the touch of a button. Bullying’s prevalence has lead to numerous consequences such as anxiety, depression, diminished effort in academics, and suicide. Many schools have implemented effective anti-bullying policies to prevent these consequences from occurring, but this school’s current policy hasn’t incorporated strict rules and consequences to battle issues associated with bullying. In order to eliminate bullying as a whole, the school must implement a new policy which imposes strict consequences on bullies. Bullying is a very prevalent issue that is easily caused by many different...
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...12 13 March 2012 Bullying Cannot Be Ignored Most people see bullying as “kids being kids”, but for Jamie Nabozny that was not the case. Students harassed, taunted, and teased Nabozny for being gay. The harassment started out verbally, but rapidly progressed into traumatizing physical and sexual abuse. The physical abuse was so severe that Nabozny couldn’t even use the school restrooms. One day while Nabozny was using the school restroom, several of his class mates came in and started harassing him. At one point Nabozny was pushed to the floor by one of the students, while kicked and urinated on by the others. The abuse did not stop there, it eventually became sexual. Male students would touch Nabozny inappropriately while whispering in his ear asking him if he liked it. When these situations were taken to the school administration they simply said “boys will be boys” and no one was held accountable (Documentary). School administration must enforce the Code of Conduct to ensure that all students feel safe. In Mark Brown’s article, “Life After Bullying”, he states that bullying is a serious problem. It is known that bullying has become a worldwide problem. “Bullying is a type of aggression in which the behavior is intended to harm or disturb, occurs repeatedly over time, and where an imbalance of power occurs, with a more powerful person or group attacking a less powerful one” (Nansel et al). “Younger children have a different definition of what bullying is, which changes as...
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...Is Hollister’s Bullying Policy Effective? Students come to school five days a week expecting to have a normal day. They expect to go through all of their classes and then go home at the end of the day. This was not the case on April 20, 1999 in Columbine High School when Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris shot and killed twelve classmates and one teacher. It is belief that the Columbine High School shooting happened because of bullying. Could this have been prevented if there was a clear bully policy in place? Can we prevent this from happening in Hollister High School based on what is stated in our bully policy? The current policy states, “students who participates in bullying or who retaliate against anyone who reports bullying will be discipled...
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...are dismissed as irrelevant. Also dismissed are those who spread the tale of the victim's woe through the grapevine. In truth, however, this supporting cast plays a significant role in peer-to-peer violence....Bystanders make or break bullying episodes." (Our Children) This article examines the role of the bystander in bullying incidents and outlines some strategies to help encourage young bystanders to act in these situations. OUR CHILDREN Nov./Dec. 2003, pp. 8-10 Reprinted with permission from National PTA. Article originally appeared in OUR CHILDREN magazine, Vol.29, No.3, November/December 2003 pp. 8-10. The Bystander: A Bully's Often-Unrecognized Accomplice By Margaret Sagarese and Charlene C. Giannetti A few years ago, an upstate New York newspaper headline noted that 60 high school girls and boys, ages 14 to 21, faced criminal prosecution for leering at and cheering on two brawling 15-year-old boys. The headline and accompanying story startled us. What we found amazing about this news item was that the police were holding "the human boxing ring" accountable. The "innocent bystander" status usually accorded people on the periphery of such violence was ruled out. The furor over the Glenbrook North High School (Northbrook, Illinois) incident this past May also stripped bystanders of innocence. Even though no one watching or videotaping the vicious female hazing was formally charged, public outrage reverberated throughout the country. The senior...
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...English 101 Section 0203 The Bully and the School Having the chance to wake up every weekday and go to school is an opportunity 121 million children around the world lack (Shah, "Poverty Facts and Stats”). On the other hand, the overwhelming majority of the children in the United States, and other First World countries, have access to educational resources. Yet, around 160,000 children in the United States alone miss school because of bullying (Phoenix & Honda, “Our children Faces a Bullying Epidemic”). Since most bullying takes place at school, it is imperative that these schools take actions by implementing anti-bullying policies into their school code of conduct. The schools are primarily responsible for reducing bullying among students and must seek effective solutions to this growing problem. Bullying would not be such a huge problem if school officials stepped up and started intervening. But how can they intervene when many cannot even recognize signs of bullying, or have not been trained on how to properly handle the situation? If not handled correctly, it can worsen and create more issues for the victims. In a survey done by Frank Barone, principal of Amsterdam High School New York, teachers believed approximately 16% of students are bullied victims (Barone,80). Barone also surveyed students, 58% of whom revealed that they are bullied victims. He found three core reasons as to why teachers and faculty members do not recognize bullying. First, the teachers believed that the...
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...The Damaging Effects of Bullying, Why It Needs to Stop, and How to Stop It There are many problems in our school system today, but the number one problem, in my opinion, is bullying. “An Analysis of School Anti-Bullying Laws in the United States,” written by Maryellen Kueny and Perry Zirkel, states that “bullying has been a persistent problem in middle level and high schools.” According to Kueny and Zirkel’s article, “an early national study found that among sixth through twelfth graders, 56% of students witnessed bullying and 71% know of a peer who is being bullied.” In the same article mentioned before, “a study of bullying in American schools found 86% of students in grade 6 through 10 engaged in bullying sometimes or more frequently.” As you can see bullying plays a big role in our school systems today and causes many problems not just for the student being bullied but for the bullies themselves. Bullying should be put to an end because it causes damage to those who are bullied and the bullies, as well. Physical bullying, verbal bullying, convert or hidden bullying, and cyberbully are the four main types of bullying. Out of the four types, verbal bullying and cyberbullying are the most common. Verbal bullies use words to harm others through name-calling, insulting, making racist comments, or harsh teasing. Cyberbullying can happen at any time. The Alannah and Madeline Foundation says that cyberbullying includes: “abusive or hurtful texts, emails, posts, images or videos...
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...Written Campaign Proposal: Bullying Brittnay M. Howell ECE 205: Introduction to Child Development Instructor Nadia Hasan August 11, 2014 Written Campaign Proposal: Bullying Bullying has been a problem for world for generations. According to a UCLA psychology study, bullying boosts the social status and popularity of school students, which in turn makes the student want to bully more. The website NOBullying.com states, “20 percent of U.S. students in grades 9-12 reportedly have experienced bullying, while 28 percent of students in grades 6-12 report the same. Experts agree that most incidences of bullying occur during middle school. Most of these students in the study reported name calling as the most prevalent type of bullying, followed by teasing, rumor-spreading, physical incidents, purposeful isolation, threats, belongings being stolen, and sexual harassment. Surprisingly, cyberbullying occurred with the least frequency. 70.6 percent of teens have seen bullying occurring in their schools and approximately 30 percent of young people admit to bullying themselves” (Bullying, 2014). The best way to bring down the percentage of people bullied not only at school but in life is to bring more awareness to the situation through facts, campaigns, and history. Campaign Proposal There are multiple affects that being bullying has to child development. Children who are bullied experience negative...
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...CYBER BULLYING CAMPAIGN A I million dollar budget for cyber bullying campaign is appropriate for high school to ensure students accelerate their academic achievement, and the safety and well-being of our students is a top priority. Bullying affects a student’s ability to focus on learning and to succeed in the classroom and beyond. I will have a detailed program to include the following; Establishing an Anti-Bullying Hot Line In my program, establishment of anti-bulling hot line must be included. This will gather for students who may not be comfortable reporting to administrators and staff at school. While proactive measures are critical to prevention, it is also essential that all reported instances are treated with utmost seriousness. Establishing a Bullying Prevention Guide for Students and School Personnel My program must include provision of a guide which will help guidance or parents of students with disabilities to advice their children about cyber bulling. This guide will include a part used by students themselves. The guide provides strategies for responding effectively when students are bullied. This guide helps prepare parents and guardians of children with disabilities to talk with their children about bullying. It provides strategies for responding effectively when children are bullied and for including these strategies in children’s Individualized Education Program (IEP). Establishing Bullying Prevention and Intervention Guide for Individualized Education...
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