David Hamlin
Mr. Denslow
English IV
01 November 2017
Schools Should Do More to Prevent Bullying.
Bullying has become a strong emotional subject for me. I was bullied a lot growing up. It initially began when I was in second grade. It all started when a kid named Calvin decided to pick on me daily. He would always shove me and make fun of the way I dressed, and even shoved me into a moving vehicle. The School did nothing about it but send me to confinement in light of the episode. My next involvement with bullying was in the eighth grade. This occurrence happened every day directly after wrestling practice. This twelfth grader would dependably ridicule me for being from California and for my weight. I told the coaches yet nobody did anything, so one day after training, the bully instructed me to go outside with him because he wanted to talk out the circumstance and I went with him because I wanted to talk the circumstance out. As soon as I got outside he and his friends jumped me and began beating me up so badly that I had to go to two different hospitals to find out if they had to do surgery on my eye. I had chipped pieces of bones in my right eye socket, I needed stitches under my right eye, and I had a concussion from it. When I went back to school a few days later, all the other kids decided to shove me even more and tell me that I should go commit suicide. Eighth grade was my first time I started cutting myself and contemplating suicide. I went to counselling to help me through this situation. When I got into High School the bullying continued for 3 years and the school didn’t do anything about it. I would walk down the halls and people would slap my binder out of my hands, shove me into the school lockers and make fun of my weight. One day I got tired of the bullying and when this one bully decided to push me I hit him and because of it I got a school ticket. One year I cut myself really bad, people said it looked like the repulsiveness symbol, Freddy Krueger, got ahold of me and slashed my arm. This is the reason I believe schools ought to accomplish more to prevent bullying. Presently things are not all that awful and I adore coming to class now. One day I found a solution to my problem after doing some research. The solution that I thought of was schools ought to do so much more to prevent it and not look the other way.
My own story is only one of more than 3.2 million occurrences of harassing that happen every year these episodes incorporate; cyber bullying, and physical bullying. Everyday there is stories that children are getting bullied at schools and schools aren’t doing anything. I have read stories such as schools bullying students. One story that comes to my mind is a elementary student in Texas who is 4 years old got sent home because of his long hair and the mother was told to not come back until the son’s hair was cut. I have even read that most schools even choose to ignore these situations. Another I was reading, was the teacher had this student sit in the front of the class while other kids would hit him. This is wrong and this is why I believe schools ought to do so much more than what they already do to prevent bullying at schools.
There are diverse approaches to counteract bullying, those ways incorporate; helping children to comprehend bullying. Educators, instructors, and other school experts should converse with kids at a youthful age about what harassing is and how to face it securely(stopbullying.gov). I trust that if school experts talk and tune in to the kids about their bullying issues and really go past the honorable obligation, at that point bullying would most likely gradually decrease in absolute terms. I also believe that school administrators can play a powerful role in preventing bullying. The reason that I believe that school administrators can play a powerful role, is because these people tend to have the authority role when students are away from their parents, and since they have the authority role, students look to them.
For the school directors, they should make their school a more secure school environment to where every one of the students are acknowledged for their identity and what they put stock in. Schools ought to likewise encourage kids more to do what they cherish and not be apprehensive in doing such. For instance, sports, and after school exercises can help in avoiding bullying. Examples of after school activities include; Art Club, Dance Club, and so forth (stopbullying.gov). I trust that these school activities will work since it has children all taking part in such exercises, and inspire them to know each other. School administrators can also help prevent bullying by building up and authorizing school principles and strategies. Examples of these approaches incorporate; A School Mission Statement, A Code of Conduct, and A Student Bill of Rights (stopbullying.gov).
A School Mission Statement, builds up the vision for the school. A Code of Conduct, portrays the positive behaviors expected of the school community. State laws once in awhile indicate what must be incorporated in a school’s code of conduct. A Student Bill of Rights incorporates positive things students can expect at school. Keep it short and simple to recall, so it’s helpful in everyday school life. A way a student bill of rights can be can be composed out is like such; In this school, each student has a privilege to free articulation, a privilege to take an interest in choices that influence this schools instruction. Each student additionally has a privilege to be approached with with respect and dignity by the school community. Students have a privilege to positive school disciplinary approaches and practices.
In Oklahoma there are three state laws that address and deny bullying, harassment, and intimidation. The three incorporate; School Safety and Bullying Prevention Act (2013), Oklahoma School Security Act (2008), School Bullying Prevention Act (2002) (sde.ok.gov). The School Bullying Prevention Act, became effective November 1, 2002, this act requires the school board of each district to adopt a policy for the control and discipline of all children attending public school in that district. The Oklahoma School Security Act, became effective November 1, 2008. This act amended the School Bullying Prevention Act. this demonstration requires the school leading body of each locale to embrace a strategy for the control and teach of all kids going to state funded school in that area.. (sde.ok.gov) Although no federal law straightforwardly addresses bullying, now and again, bullying overlaps with discriminatory harassment when it depends on race, national origin, color, sex, age, disability, or religion. (Stopbullying.gov). I trust that these laws do prove to be useful with schools, but I also believe that there should be more laws. The reason I believe this is because people tend to not follow these laws, and there should be a law that if you do not follow these laws there should be some serious consequences.
There are such a large number of various sorts of bullying. These types include; verbal, physical, and cyberbullying. The primary sort of bullying is called verbal bullying. Verbal bullying is portrayed as a negative explanation enlightened to the casualty or regarding the casualty. Examples of verbal bullying incorporate, ridiculing, ordering the casualty around, judging/criticizing, discounting or minimizing the victim’s experiences, and threatening. Individuals who encounter verbal tormenting tend to endeavor suicide too. (bullyingstatistics.org).
Another kind of harassing is physical bullying. Physical bullying is bullying that damages somebody's body, or some person's belonging. Examples of this type of bullying include; hitting, kicking, stealing, shoving, fighting and etc. This type of bullying can prompt outrage, absence of trust, and even endeavors of suicide (bullyingstatistics.org).
At last, the last sort of bullying is Cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is bullying that includes bullying or harassment using electronic forms of media or direct contact via text. Cyberbullying has turned out to be progressively normal, particularly among young people with cyberbullying, it is sometimes very difficult to know who the bully is because they can give false information or even be unknown. This kind of bullying can likewise prompt suicide and even low confidence. (nobullying.gov). All these distinctive sorts of bullying can all lead to suicides and some of the time include school shootings. Cyberbullying can even occur at school regardless of if destinations are blocked or they are on watch, children will dependably discover a path around it. The way I trust schools can vanquish cyberbullying is toss out every one of the computers and backpedal to learning with just course books.
Bullying has been a critical issue in schools and in the general population eye all through late decades. Marty Mathiesan, a essential at Nevada Union High School, as of late stunned his students by equally punishing all parties occupied with a fierce attack on an unadulterated school kid. After the essential got wind of this circumstance, he made it clear that not only the bully but the student videotaping this fight would be reprimanded (Bullying190.blogspot.com). I concur with what this principal did one hundred percent and I believe that all schools should do the same. If more schools did this sort of thing, then the bullying rate would drop so much and make schools safer than what they were.
The term bullying was not openly perceived until a well known newspaper made a publication of this behavior. In 1862, after just about seventy-two years of distributions the day by day news paper The Times, composed their first story on bullying when they announced a soldier allegedly died due to bullying. The outcomes of bullying achieved its pinnacle when two adolescent young men shot and executed their schoolmates after professedly being casualties of harassing. This was known as the Columbine School Shooting. In 1999, Columbine secondary school experienced one of the most exceedingly awful secondary school shootings ever. This occasion revealed the crude truth behind tormenting.(Bullying190.blogspot.com).
Over the years the percentage of students that have reported being bullied has grown more than 30 percent (students.com.miami.edu/Sarah Harting). There is a solid connection amongst bullying and suicide particularly in schools. Recently, a progression of bullying related suicides in the US and over the globe have attracted consideration regarding the association amongst harassing and suicide. In spite of the fact that excessively numerous grown-ups still consider tormenting to be "simply part of being a child," it is a difficult issue that prompts many negative impacts for casualties, including suicide. The measurements on tormenting and suicide is disturbing. Suicide is the third driving reason for death among youngsters, bringing about around 4,400 passings for every year, as indicated by the CDC. For each suicide among youngsters, there are no less than 100 suicide endeavors (bullyingstatistics.org). A majority of high school students consider suicide, and very nearly a fourth of the high school students have actually attempted it. According to statistics reported by ABC News, almost 30 percent of students are either bullies or victims of bullying, and 160,000 children remain home from school each day due to (abcnews.go.com/suicide-bullying connection by Susan D. James). I trust that what is being said is genuine because everyday a child chooses to play hooky because of bullying and the schools choose not to do anything about it. Bullying-related-suicide can be connected to any type of bullying.
In a few situations where bullying victims murdered themselves, bullies had told the high schooler that he or she should kill him or herself or that the world would be better without them. Other people who hear these sorts of explanations ought to rush to stop them and disclose to the victim that the bully isn't right (bullyingstatistics.org, al. 57). Individuals who experience suicidal thoughts should call the suicide hotline number 1-800-273-8255 or go to the hospital for help.
In conclusion to my point I am expounding on, I trust that if schools take after such methods that I discussed, at that point we as a general public with the schools help can meet up lastly beat harassing. More school experts putting a stop to harassing rises to a more secure schools condition which prompts a substantially more secure world.