In the essay “Beyond Bullying” by Krissy Darch and Fazeela Jiwa the readers got a chance to further their understanding of the injustice many victims bullying receive in Canada. The essay starts off with focusing mainly on two victims of bullying; Amanda Todd and Rehtaeh Parsons. These two victims cases were posted on social media under the title of cyberbullying but little did everyone knows that both girls were faced with sexual harassment by younger men. The felonies that Rehtaeh and Amanda both went through was the outcome of a sexist system that states a women body does not belong to her solely. The term bullying is understood differently, across the globe.
Bullying is a very terrible and overwhelming experience for any person to experience. Most people being bullied find that standing up for themselves is not an option because of the allusion that they have no power over the antagonizer. So imagine if the bullies were a fourth the age of the patronize victim. In Carolyn Thompson’s article,“ Bullied NY Bus Monitor Teaches Kindness Year Later” we hear the heart-wrenching story of an elderly bus monitor named Karen Klein, who witnesses that strangers affection expressed through a generous donation of an exponential sum of money can surpass the viciousness of a few immature boys. Thompson expresses her belief that Klein deserves this exceptional amount of money through the entirety of her article.
Jamie Nabozny was a typical middle school student who happened to be gay. The bullying started with some students calling him pejorative (CRAFT) names behind the teacher’s back, and sometimes, right in front of the teacher’s face. He put up with it for some time until attempting to commit suicide. He had to have his stomach pumped while his mother stood by with no idea of how how to help her son. Nabozny’s mother spoke to the middle school principal who dismissed her claims saying “boys will be boys”.
Once in school there was a girl who couldn’t speak well. She could only make out a few words, but not sentences. Kids bullied her because of her issue. Teachers ignored her and let it slip. The kids bullied her even physically, and nothing was done to help her.
Chapter 3 Bullying is not a good thing at all . but the good thing is There are a few different teen activists standing up against bullying . One of these teen activists is named alex libby. He was bullied all of his life.
In another example, a Judge wrote, regarding a student who was bullied for years about his weight, that if the charges were proved liability would be placed upon the students involved and the school system. Finally, Darden explains the tragic social media bullying of a 12-year-old, who committed suicide. He reported that Justice Outreach, a legal advocacy group are working to hold parents criminally responsible for their child’s cyberbullying. Edwin Darden concluded that school districts are trying to find solutions for this problem, but in the end the main point is “school officials must be relentless in preventing bullying beforehand as well as responding decisively” (Darden, 2015), as courts should not be the solution to an “on-the-ground problem” (Darden,
Bullying is a growing issue in our society affecting many people. People do not realize the damage they are doing to people and their families. Not only do the bullies hurt the people verbally, but they can get hurt mentally which could lead the victim to harm themselves or commit suicide. Even though we are not all white or all African American that does not mean we all should not be treated the same. Chris Crutcher wrote Whale Talk to show how bullying can dramatically hurt people by expressing acts of violence, using profanity and racial slurs.
In “Bullying as True Drama”, writers Danah Boyd and Alice Marwick describe how adults need to listen to the dialect of young people during discussions of bullying. They wrote this article for the New York Times in 2011 after hearing on the news that a 14-year-old boy committed suicide after being bullied mercilessly. This young man had asked for help, but many teenagers will not ask for help because “It requires acknowledging oneself as either powerless or abusive.” (Boyd and Marwick 362) Boyd and Marwick used their years of research of questioning and witnessing teenagers throughout the United States.
In “Phoebe Prince: Should School Bullying Be a Crime?”, an article written by journalist Jessica Bennet, addresses and outcomes of school bullying whether if bullies get the consequences they deserve or not. This article aims the spotlight on bullying, a 15-year-old who took her own life due to harassment, torment, rumors, physical threats all leading it to being bullied by well-known good students. Not only does this article talk about Phoebe’s death but they talk about others who suffered the same as her. Students who were tormented for being gay all leading up to them ending their lives. The process of being bullied has never been taking into consideration nor importance in the school system or by people in general, till something bad happens
Individuals with disabilities are victims of bullying and abuse. Bauer uses the statistic from University of Massachusetts, which found that “Almost half of the young people surveyed wouldn’t want to sit next to a student like Margaret on a school bus” (Bauer 445). That statistic is appalling. Students wouldn’t even want to sit next to their classmate who has Down Syndrome or a different intellectual disability. Another shocking fact that Bauer uses is, “More than half of parent’s didn’t want such
There is an article online about Hannah Smith and her story, she had hung herself of inside her room because of cyber bullying. Hannah and many other youth have become not only bullying victims, but also suicide victims (Fagge and Nick, paragraph 3) Kathy Shaidle and her friends seem to be stating that bullying has no consequences and that anti-bullying is bullying. That if someone is protesting gay-bullying that this makes them a gay bully (Kathy, page 1). So the families that speak out against bullying suicides are suicide bullies? Families of these suicide victims are left heartbroken and questioning whose fault it was, if they had done something more could they have prevented their child’s death.
The article title “Bullying Free Speech (Forbes Magazine),” by Harvey Silverglate and Will Creeley argues how human tragedies should not be used as an assault on liberty. The effect to upturn anti-bullying on college campus may have a serious consequence on campus free speech. Rutger University freshman Tyler Clementi commited suicide after discovering his sexual private life was exposed by two student who secrectly recorded the incident and published the video online. Sen. Frank Lautenberg and Rep. Rush Holt authored a bill called “The Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act” that would prevent future college bullying by expanding on the anti-harassment regulations. Silverglade and Creeley argues that even if well-intented the legislation is flawed.
Hate crimes and assault are something grownups do. No anti-bullying program can succeed unless it confronts these underlying prejudices. Only when such intolerances are reduced will bullying go down” (Bronson, P & Merryman, A. 2011). Hate speech effectively works in children’s world. Since the bully will be an adult and may repeat the same blunder, the cycle never ends.
Now, a reported 1 in 5 children, that’s 20.8%, are reportedly bullied in school according to the National Center for Educational Statistics, that’s about 7,321,600 kids in elementary and middle school alone. One of the many, many examples of this is Desiree Andrews, a 14 year old cheerleader at Lincoln Middle School in Wisconsin. During a game, some of the basketball players realized that they were making fun of Desiree, because she has Down’s Syndrome. As soon as the basketball players knew about this, they went into the crowd and said “Don’t mess with her.” The players were very angered by this and knew that it wasn’t
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
