(2013) said that, "We cannot continue to dismiss bullying as a harmless, almost inevitable, part of growing up." "We need to change this mindset and acknowledge this as a serious problem for both the individual and the country as a whole; the effects are long-lasting and significant." According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 20 percent of U.S. students in grades 9 through 12 were bullied at some point in 2011. Bullying should be a crime, there are kids out there that are killing themselves because of what other kids are saying about that person. It's just horrible.
CYP Core 33 5.2 Outline the policies and procedures that should be followed in response to concerns or evidence of bullying and explain the reasons why they are in place The Department of Education is clear that no form of bullying should be tolerated. The current anti-bullying guidance for schools is ‘Safe to Learn: embedding anti-bullying work in schools’. We strongly abide by the anti-bullying policy. Everyone has the right to feel welcome, secure and happy. Bullying of any sort stops members of the setting from being able to achieve their full potential and prevents equality of opportunity.
“To This Day”, Bullying Breaks Us Leona Nelson Bullying can leave you broken. Youths are the most vulnerable of us and words have a habit of leaving scars on them. Laughter can cause tears and even your closest friends can be cruel. We spend almost twelve of our most important developmental years of life being emotionally and even physically beaten down and broken because of bullying. Thrust into the real world with our confidence almost permanently shattered, we are expected to be successful and important when prior to that we were always told the opposite.
“Bullying is a big problem that effects millions of students, and it has everyone worried, not just the kids on it’s receiving end” (Lyness 1). Bullying does not just affect kids, but the parents too. It affects the parents because a lot of their children begin to be afraid attending school. In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda was affected by being bullied lead her to think about suicide, scared of coming to school, and victims like Melinda begin to not care about school and fail. Melinda was affected by being bullied and led to many things and one of them is thinking about suicide.
Difficulty concentrating, difficulty learning, depression, low self-esteem, Child is always hungry and very thin and poor health is signs of child neglect. If a child is not willing to participate in physical activities, poor peer relationships, focused on sexual relationships and pain in certain areas are signs of sexual abuse. We need to learn the signs of child abuse because children everywhere are dying because of child abuse. If we learn the signs of child abuse, we will be able to prevent it. You may be able to take a class that teaches you about the signs of child abuse and just child abuse in general.
Diblasio believes that people are more aware of bullying and are finally taking action and reporting it. For example she claims “people are more likely to know about bullying and feel that they have to repot it” (Diblasio). This may be true; however are they targeting the right people? Most of the parents whose child is being bullying instantly assumes it is the schools fault, yet they don’t target the actual bully first. Like I have mentioned in the previous paragraph, schools only have limited power when it comes to bullying.
Although, this may not prevent such tragedies from occurring, we as a nation will know that we tried and will continue to try to prevent and educate our youth to better handle situations like this. The Lonestar College shooting was a bad incident but it could have been worse. Students and teachers took the necessary precautions to insure student and faculty safety. On January 22, 2013 the student and faculty body became one. Similar to the incident in Boston and West, people united and became on to make sure everyone was safe and those injured were treated.
Unit 5B TDA 2.9 1.1 Three different policies that promote children and young people’s positive behaviour are; Anti-bullying, rewards and sanctions and the behaviour policy. At my setting the aim of the anti-bullying policy is to ensure that pupils learn in a supportive, caring and safe environment without fear of being bullied. Bullying is anti-social and affects everyone; it is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Also to take positive action to prevent bullying from occurring throughout the school and to produce a consistent school response to any bullying incidents that may occur. The procedure that is put in place for anti-bullying is: For the school of my placement takes action immediately if bullying happens, which then we help bullies realize the consequences of their actions and to teach them different and better ways of behaving in the future and we also support victims of bullying by providing them with ways on how to deal with any types of bullying if it was to happen again.
Patrick McAuley Satire Essay 1/22/13 Bully for the Best According to an article written by MSNBC contributor Linda Carrol, everyday across our country one out of every six school kids is affected by the terrible use of bullying. Bullying is the largest problem concerning the safety and well-being of children at school. Students complain that bullying problems have driven them to lose focus in their learning, causing grades to drop and self-confidence to deteriorate over time. Bullies seem to target the weaker students, both physically and mentally. All schools say “no” to bullying, but why not say “yes”.
Effects of Bullying on Children Joanna Solis American InterContinental University ENG106 Professor Bennett May 14, 2012 Abstract Bullying causes so many devastating effects in people’s lives, especially children because many times they do not know what exactly is happening around them, much less the consequences words or sometimes even a push or a shove can have. Bullies need to understand that there are consequences for them too, in the long run, they could be faced with the same faith as the ones they themselves bullied. Whether it’s banter or just playing around, there’s a fine line between teasing and bullying. Effects of Bullying on Children Bullying has always been a part of American culture and it is seen in almost every school across the country. There are even some people that view it as a “normal” situation in which, in their opinion, everyone has to deal with at some point in time.