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A prominent argument within the United States is about what profession has the most vital jobs in our society. One profession people typically skim over is arguably the most important in the United States and worldwide: teaching. Teachers and other education professionals teach the future how to take care of themselves in society, critically think about problems afflicting it, and become productive members of it. Nevertheless, one of the biggest problems plaguing education is bullying. Education professionals know bullying is a recurring power imbalance where the perpetrators antagonize their victims with the intention of inducing anguish. This knowledge raises three questions: Why do certain people become bullied or bullied, how do these reasons

As a result, utilizing trustworthy sources is vital in conducting accurate and thorough research. This research paper highlights existing literature on this topic, with each source in the literature review being selected due to their research on bullying in U.S. public high schools in the past decade. The literature review format is theme-based, with six themes using scholarly articles to corroborate your paper’s thesis. Through their use of qualitative and quantitative methodology, each scholarly article addresses the issue of how bullying affects a student’s mental health. Nonetheless, there is one thing these articles do not address and is accordingly mostly unknown about this matter: How intersections of social location factors through intersectionality place students into bullying roles and how that affects their mental health. We need to study this because a large number of students are enrolled in the public education system. Thus, most of them have experienced or witnessed bullying in school and online at least once in their life. Educators are responsible for ensuring all students receive education in a safe and supportive environment, so they must mitigate bullying by understanding how a student’s various identities mold them into either someone who is a bully or is

public education system encounter intersectionality relates to how intersections of bullying affect their mental health. As current and future educators, we are intrigued by learning about three key issues: why people become bullies or bullied, how social location intersections contribute to these issues, and how intersectionality influences these high schoolers’ mental health. This research project will mainly relate to how high school students face bullying due to these intersections in their social location, for it is essential knowledge for educators to know how patterns of privilege and oppression contribute to forming students into being bullied or a bully resulting from students' intersecting identities (Price et al., 2019). Using this knowledge, high school teachers can manage bullying inside and outside the classroom by understanding that intersectionality is the root cause of traditional bullying and cyberbullying. After this academic research paper concludes, you will be able to justify how intersectionality drives students to become bullies or bullies, how this drive affects their mental health, and how educators can mitigate such effects for their students.

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