“Hey Fatty!”, “What’s the difference between you and a pig. Wait a minute...nothing!”, “C’mon drink this peg, or get ready to experience your worst nightmare”,“If you say a single word about us to your parents, we will publicly shame you and them in ways you cannot even imagine”, “Those holes in your shirt show your worthless class”, “You lesbians are wastes of space”,“If I were a loser like you, I would kill myself” ---- “La intimidación” in Spanish, “Harcèlement” in French, “Budmaashi” in Hindi, “Ijime” in Japanese, and “Bullying” in English ---- these words may sound different but their meaning never change: using one’s superiority to physically, mentally, verbally, and nowadays even electronically, torturing and harassing another …show more content…
Moreover, bullying is not limited to a specific nation, rather is experienced in every single country around the world. In fact, “In the 2016 UNICEF U-Report/SRSG-VAC opinion poll on the experience of bullying 100,000 young people in 18 countries reported being bullied because of their physical appearance, gender or sexual orientation and their ethnicity or national origin.” In U.S alone, “the most common forms of bullying are: verbal insults, name calling and nicknames; hitting, direct aggression and theft; and threats, spreading rumours and social exclusion or isolation.” Unfortunately, teenagers and children, even below the age of 10, are the majority victims of bullying, and the most common ground for bullying are shockingly the educational institutions like in a school’s bathroom, locker rooms, or any place where administration cannot witness it. Bullying has no limits: it may mean calling someone inappropriate words regarding gender or sexuality, taking impolite pictures or videos of the inferior, or physically abusing by throwing mud or pushing at the …show more content…
Being around her would bring a smile on anyone’s face because she is bold, carefree and makes the craziest jokes. But, one day, her smile disappeared and the energy she would bring in a room, vanished. I knew something was wrong and after days of questioning her, she finally broke down in front of me and made me promise that I should tell no one. She told me that a group of girls were constantly bullying her by calling her ugly as she is black and has curly hair, and that she does not have the right to be funny because she looks ugly when she dances around to make others smile. This was making Sakho extremely depressed and she went from saying “I hate my curly hair” to “I hate God for making me black” to finally “I hate myself”. I realized that enough was enough because the thoughts of depression, lower self esteem and suicide is certainly not acceptable for a developing teenager. Therefore, I was going to tell her mother, but before that I told her that she is the most beautiful girl I have ever met because she is pretty from inside and that purity reflects on her
Bullying occurs every day due to social pressures, cultural insensitivity, and learned behaviors during formative years, and therefore is a pervasive issue that affects both the bully and the bullied, causing self-esteem issues, mental health problems, delay of social skills, and should be addressed and prevented by parents. Bully is a very widespread problem and affect many individuals, especially students. One out of every five students report being bullied (Pacer's National Bullying Prevention Center, 2016). Victims must learn to stand up for themselves. Consequences need to be required when it comes to bullying.
She was very weak inside but trying to show the opposite just for her siblings. After a while, her father got married to another women. The women was taking care of the house for about a year, but things completely changed. The new wife, started to show her real face. She secretly tease my friend by making her do all the housework by herself.
So I sat beside her then started making a conversation with her. At that moment, I noticed that she had something hidden in her heart like a secret or something that made her uncomfortable. When I asked her why she looked sad all the time? She told me that she had an alcoholic father. She mentioned that her father was treating them badly, and torturing her mother and her sister.
Around the world there are many kind of problems that afflict kids of all age but there is one in particular that is relevant, this problem is the bullying. Also many kids commit suicide because of this problem, this isn't an actual problem, the bullying exist many years ago almost all generations of humans witness the bullying in the childhood.
Being said, students spend most of their time at school, it is the most common place where bullying takes place, especially in middle school. It is becoming a trouble as it is interfering with the student’s academics during school. Bullying is a school matter, school administrators need to deal with situations, and have regulations to create a safe environment for all students. In the article of “School Bullying Declines, Federal Government Says” by Mike Kennedy, strongly supports the idea of helping bullied victims. Research shows students who are a victim struggle in school and would often skip class, furthermore are more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol, be depressed and are at higher risk of committing suicide (Kennedy).
Bullying is a phenomenon existing as long as humans exist. The fact that it didn’t have a name for years doesn’t mean that it wasn’t a widespread way of behavior, in cases where two different types of people were involved ; the strong and the weak ones. Although bullying is considered as a form of aggression, or in some cases as an infringement of the human rights, “bullying is commonly regarded as an aspect of aggression”. (Roland and Idsoe, 2001), there are significant differences between them , the most important of which that “bullying is different from peer conflict. It is conflict between individuals that do not share equal physical and / or psychological power.
Bullying is an undesirable, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves actual disparity of power. According to Megan Brooks bullying is a serious public health problems, with significant short-and long-term psychological consequences for the child who is bullied and the child who is the bully. This only tells us that bullying can lead to difficulty that a certain children may experience and will have either short or long term problem. “Bullying has long been tolerated as a rite of passage among children and adolescents, but it has lasting, negative consequences and cannot simply be ignored.” Committee chair Frederick Rivera, MD.
This article explains what is bullying exactly. Bullying is any form of psychological, verbal, or physical abuse that occurs repeatedly among schoolchildren over a period. Statistically, the dominant type of violence is emotional and occurs mostly in the classroom and courtyard of schools. Bullying is a kind of torture, methodical and systematic, in which the aggressor sums up the victim, often with silence, indifference or complicity of other comrades. The author explains some characteristic and consequences of bullying.
Recently, bullying has been becoming more and more of an issue. It’s gotten so bad that one out of four kids deal with it. Currently, bullying is worldwide. There’s no place where it began, because it’s pretty much human nature. Many people are trying to stop it, whether by using zero-tolerance policies, small punishments, and more, however, nothing has worked so far.
Cyberbullying is making the online “world” a harder place to deal with. Cyberbullying is the use of electronics to bully someone. Most teens experience cyberbullying outside of their school life so, do schools have the right to step into the situation. Cyberbullying is happening everyday to several kids. This takes place around the world on most social media sites.
Bullying has been named an “emerging public health issue requiring intervention” (Ansary, Elias, Greene, & Green, 2015, p. 27). As a major problem in schools around the world, the issue of bullying must be addressed in order to keep students physically and emotionally safe. The act of bullying not only affects the well-being of the person being targeted, but it also affects the rest of the school community too. It can be difficult for teachers, principals, and superintendents to make an ethical decision about what to do when bullying occurs because there are misunderstandings about what bullying is, leading to the improper identification of situations.
Bullying in Schools What seems fun and harmless for some students, is painful and degrading to others. Bullying has been a critical issue around schools, but before it was not as dangerous and know as it is now. These do not means bullying was not happening, it means it was not taken into consideration by parents or teachers. They thought it was just peer pressure or a kids game, and sooner or later the kids would be friends again. At one point, bullies think it’s normal to be mean and abusive to other students.
Bullying is a widespread problem in our schools and communities and has a negative impact on students’ right to learn in a safe and secure environment without fear. It is a process in which one person repeatedly uses his/her superior strength or influence to mistreat, attack or force another person to do something (Van der Werf, 2014). Bullying or peer victimization is now recognized as a complex and pervasive problem (Beran, 2009). It is an ongoing problem that is not restricted by age, race, gender or class. This behavior generally takes one of four forms, physical such as assault, verbal which involves threats or insults, social which entails exclusion or rumor spreading, and cyber which includes aggressive texts or social network posts
Bullying Can Be Prevented Bullying is a form of violence to pick on victims because they are different from their bullies, have insecurity/jealousy or home problems. The hate towards their victim has something to do with the victim having an unusual gift or being intelligent the bullies has yet to become. It is important that this behavior should be prevented or it will become worse. Bullying is one of the main issues public and private schools have to face on a day-to-day basis. When the bully takes it too far, the victim snaps and retaliates by fighting him/her back physically or verbally.
Bullying is defined as repeated oppression, physical or psychological of a less powerful individual by a more powerful individual, people or group. It consists of three main types of abuse which are physical, verbal and emotional. Bullying in schools is a common and worldwide spread problem that can have critical and negative implications on the general school climate as well as on the right of students to study in a safe and secure environment without fear. Many people believe that bullying is part of life, happens in all schools and so it’s not an issue to worry about and that it lets individuals know what life is all about as it toughens them but in reality bullying is a detrimental problem that affects most school going children and teenagers physically, emotionally and socially.