Everday teens are being bullied by their classmates at school and no one even tries to help them. They just stand there and watch them get beat up in the hall ways; they don't think to go to the principal or a teacher. Some students don't realize that bullying can hurt people, not only physically but emotionally too. Sometimes bullying can cause suicide if it gets too extreme. Bullies don't only hurt others in school but they also hurt them outside of school too. Teachers and other school staff need to be more observant about the students.
Should schools be more concerned about their students being bullied? What do you think can be done about bullying in schools? Were you ever bullied, or were you ever a bully, in school? What do you think causes bullying in most cases?
Hillary Moore (noon)
12 comments:
Schools should be very concerned about bullying. I think hall supervisers could stop a big porton of bullying in the halls and also bigger consaquences would also stop bullies. I think ones home life causes bullying at school, just somewhere to take their anger out at.
Scotty
I wasn't bullied in school nor was I a bully in school but I hated watching people be bullied. I was one of those kids who never did anything about it, and always wished that someone would. I can rememebr my sister being bullied about her teeth because she had a really bad over bit, and because she was made fun of she was mean and started to bully people herself, teachers let these people make fun of my sister and because my sister wasn't their favorite student I believe that they let it happen. I think that if there would have been more done to stop the kids from bullying my sister maybe she would have ended up differently and maybe she wouldnt have felt so bad about herself all those years. I think that all school staff should do more than just say stop to students, that they need to take it outside the box and bring parents into the picture or more I dont really know but this is a problem that needs to be taken care of.
Alex S. (8:00)
I do believe bigger action should be taken against bullies both in and out of school. However, a bully at school may be picking on others because the way he is treated at home. So no the "bully" should not just be given a detention, or suspended for bulling someone schools have counselors, why aren't they helping? Maybe the bully has something that they are really bothered with but can't talk to either of their parents or a family member about. A counselor talking to them and a punishment maybe helpful to both children.
Thysha 8:00
I believe bullying comes from a need to either express jealousy or make you feel better about yourself. Schools need to improve in MANY ways this being a big one. How can children concentrate properly if they are distracted by either picking on someone or being picked on? The children need to focus on learning how to become good, strong forces in society.So in my opinion the school system should really look at themselves and their students and figure out how to stop all of this negativity surrounding the school environment.
Jessica Ervin (8:00)
I think that most teachers should be more observant of bullying in their schools. If a children is getting bullied, I think he or she should go straight to a principal. Then, i think the student doing the bullying should get suspended at the least. Bullying can cause emotional and mental breakdowns that could lead to students hurting themselves or even committing suicide.
Macy
I was never a bullied at school, my father fought me to defend my self if ever attacked to if anyone messed with me at school. No everyone gets to be so close to their father or even have a father figure so I can not make that assumption for everyone, I think schools should defenatly look closer at the safety of ther students, but also I think that parents have a big say in this subject. Some people think that schools are responsible for kids, when they are really not. The papents should he held fully responsible for their kids accions. Kids should be discipline at home, at school the should display their disipline not learn it there. Also something that will help is have more serious consequences for bullies that would help stoping this problem.
Aaron Vega (8:00)
Schools ahould take care of what they can legally at the school. If a child is a known bullier, they should be taken out of school for an extended period of time and make the parents take care of the problem. If it continues, take the child out of school permanently. If the parents are held accountable, this would help. Most parents work, and if you take away income, they will (hopefully) take care of the problems themselves. If they can't, the child needs to be taken out of school permanently.
Remember somethough, teachers are teachers, they are not parents and they should not be responsible for doing something the parent should be doing. Yes they are responsible for what goes on in an classroom but the can't and shouldn't try to give these children their morals and what they think is right.
Suicide from bulleying is an absolute tragedy. It is happening in younger children everyday now it seems. I think this is developed younger now because of TV and the influence it has on our kids. If you don't wesr this you are a nerd or arn't cool. Or, if you don't listen to this group or that group you are not cool. A lot of it stems from stuff as simple as that.
Now you add to it, Facebook, IM, instant camera feeds, and other medias that give kids another avenue to pick on one another. I see this a lot on FB because I have relatives that have kids on facebook. Theyy are made of of for ewverything from shoes they wear to clothes they wear, or even the hobbies they have. IE Gleen club, or raising rabbits to what church they go to.
I think that forms should be held at the beginning of every school year that outlines what bulleying is and what will happen to them if they do it, how they can report it without being known. Makin it annonmous if you report it. Another good idea would be to post it throughout the school, who did it, and what happened to the victim and what the punishment was with the child being named so others can watch out for the same thing.
I was bulleyed for lunch money a couple of times and I told my dad. He said to pick up a big stick and knock the shit out of him. That is what I did and it never happened again, but that does not make it a correct thing to do.
I think now there are too many medias that kids can use to do things to ther kids. They are in much more pressure than when I was a kid. It is much harder to control now than it was when I was a child. Education to the dangers of bulleying is one answer, show the consequenses of bulleying as maybe another.
This is a big problem that will only get worse if we don't do something soon.
Jesse Hill 8:00
Schools ahould take care of what they can legally at the school. If a child is a known bullier, they should be taken out of school for an extended period of time and make the parents take care of the problem. If it continues, take the child out of school permanently. If the parents are held accountable, this would help. Most parents work, and if you take away income, they will (hopefully) take care of the problems themselves. If they can't, the child needs to be taken out of school permanently.
Remember somethough, teachers are teachers, they are not parents and they should not be responsible for doing something the parent should be doing. Yes they are responsible for what goes on in an classroom but the can't and shouldn't try to give these children their morals and what they think is right.
Suicide from bulleying is an absolute tragedy. It is happening in younger children everyday now it seems. I think this is developed younger now because of TV and the influence it has on our kids. If you don't wesr this you are a nerd or arn't cool. Or, if you don't listen to this group or that group you are not cool. A lot of it stems from stuff as simple as that.
Now you add to it, Facebook, IM, instant camera feeds, and other medias that give kids another avenue to pick on one another. I see this a lot on FB because I have relatives that have kids on facebook. Theyy are made of of for ewverything from shoes they wear to clothes they wear, or even the hobbies they have. IE Gleen club, or raising rabbits to what church they go to.
I think that forms should be held at the beginning of every school year that outlines what bulleying is and what will happen to them if they do it, how they can report it without being known. Makin it annonmous if you report it. Another good idea would be to post it throughout the school, who did it, and what happened to the victim and what the punishment was with the child being named so others can watch out for the same thing.
I was bulleyed for lunch money a couple of times and I told my dad. He said to pick up a big stick and knock the shit out of him. That is what I did and it never happened again, but that does not make it a correct thing to do.
I think now there are too many medias that kids can use to do things to ther kids. They are in much more pressure than when I was a kid. It is much harder to control now than it was when I was a child. Education to the dangers of bulleying is one answer, show the consequenses of bulleying as maybe another.
This is a big problem that will only get worse if we don't do something soon.
Jesse Hill 8:00
School should take bullying more seriously, yet it seems to me they never do. When a bully gets in trouble what happens. He has to say sorry and has a detention. I mean I honestly feel the best what to take care of a bully is by have a group of people pick back at him. Show him or her how it feels. You can always use the tell a teacher first but if that doesn't get the point across go with take matters into your groups hands.
Micah
Yes, I believe schools should be more concerned with kids get bullied at school. It is probably worse today than it has ever been.
I think there are probably alot of reasons kids bully; outcast from the majority, doing the same as their friends, wanting everyone to be afraid of them, bad home life and doing the same that gets done to them. I'm sure the list could go on and on. It's a shame that you send your child to school, in hopes that it is what is best for them and it is the exact opposite.
I think parents and schools both play a role in this. Parents of bullying children probably don't want to admit their child has a problem, in some cases probably don't know they are. Parents of children being bullied should make it a point that the school is aware of the situtation and do something about it. Schools should be more strict and aware of things like this, counselors especially.
I have two girls one that just recently graduated and one in 8th grade. My oldest one was bullied in class and the teacher saw it. I made it very clear to the principal and the superintendant that this was unexceptable. The bullying stopped, but my daughter was treated differently the remainder of her year in this class. This is such a hard thing to deal with. You don't want your kids to be looked at differently because they told "their mommy" on them, then again you don't want your child to be haunted by things like this.
Maybe if parents were more aware of what went on in their childs day at school it could cut down on this, both sides of bullying too.
Schools should in turn look for signs of things like this, watch the kids that are known to have behavioral problems and been caught doing things like this. Maybe even educating them a little more of the effects this has on kids, being more strict with their punishment.
i think bullying kinda starts at some point in time that person was bullied by someone and they want to bully someone to get their mind away from being hurt again and so they bully and feel like they have a point to prove.i was bullied in my life by older siblings and peers at school but my thought about everything was i can throw the same punch that other person could throw so why should i be scared and from that day on i kinda fell away from letting other people bully me and i became one unknown to me because i would get into alot of fights and i sometimes come out on top so others would be scared to be friend me and there was alot of other peers who followed me so i was known to be a bully. but all that didnt prove nothing and i can now call myself an gentleman not a bully.
Demario Jordan
Yes I do believe that schools should be more concerned about students being bullied because faculty and staff should want the students to feel welcomed and safe when they come to school not worrying about what some one is going to do to them. I think the teachers need to pay close attention to their students and listen to what they have to say when a child tells them that another child is bullying or bothering them. No I was never bullied and I was never a bully in school thats just something that I hate to see someone doing or it being done to someone I think it is so cruel. I think that in most cases bullying is being done because the person is hurt inside and needs to let their anger out or the persons not getting enough attention at home. Bullying can be caused by alot of things but their are a lot of ways to stop and prevent it also.
Sierra (noon)
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