Samantha Straniero Mrs. Wein English 122 April 14, 2015 TITLE???? Have you ever been bullied and thought people just do it to get attention? Your head feels like its spinning and everyone is just looking at you. A tear drop rolls down from your face as you run to the bathroom, thinking is this real life? What would you do? Would you take matters into your own hands? Would you tell a trusted adult? School administration and staff are not taking cyberbullying serious enough. Bullying is when a person or a group repeatedly or purposely hurts or intimidates another person. Cyber-bullying is the act of attacking someone verbally online by sending or posting mean messages. Most of the time cyber bullying happens over social media. Over 80% of …show more content…
Governor Chris Christie passed a law called the Anti-Bullying Bill Of Rights Act in 2012. This law states that “All acts of harassment, intimidation, or bullying must be reported verbally to the school principal on the same day when the school employee or contracted service provider witnesses or receives reliable information regarding any such incident.” The witness(witness meaning teacher or administration) must than write a written report of the incident with in two days. Parents of the students involved in the incident have the right to have information about the incident and may request a hearing with the school board in its executive session.In most cases at the board meeting you will also hear from the anti-bullying specialist . At the next board meeting the board must write a written decision on accepting, rejecting or correcting the principals punishment decision.(CITATION: …show more content…
For example, A fourteen year old teen and his father are suing the Mohawk Central School District for not doing enough to stop other students from bullying him on a count of the fact he's openly gay. The law suit states that this kid has had his cell phone broke, i-pod broke. He’s been pushed down a flight of stairs, which resulted him in spraining his ankle. The last straw came when another student pulled out a knife and threatened to hang him from a flag pole while the teacher stood by and watched this happen. “The district said it would increase staff training to prevent harassment” It is very important that every student, not just the few that sign up for special projects or after school activities, but students who are involved in any various activities in school should attend meetings about teaching students how to respect each other. This will help teachers prevent cyber-bullying in school by drawing students together. (Youtube video, MOHAWK
Bullying occurs every day due to social pressures, cultural insensitivity, and learned behaviors during formative years, and therefore is a pervasive issue that affects both the bully and the bullied, causing self-esteem issues, mental health problems, delay of social skills, and should be addressed and prevented by parents. Bully is a very widespread problem and affect many individuals, especially students. One out of every five students report being bullied (Pacer's National Bullying Prevention Center, 2016). Victims must learn to stand up for themselves. Consequences need to be required when it comes to bullying.
I believe that districts should take a comprehensive approach to bullying. There should be collaboration between school administrators, teachers, parents and students to tackle bullying. In addition, school administrators should encourage victims and student witnesses to report bullying. Research also suggests that providing supervision in hallways and other areas can help to reduce bullying on and off campus. School leaders must always act on bullying reports and keep proper
Synopsis: In a recent “Daily News” piece, a news reporter was threatened by high school students attending Bronx High School of Science. The reporter wrote an article in the newspaper and the school staff found out about the situation. The principal apologizes to the reporter and is trying to keep the situation under control with the help of the New York Police Department (NYPD) and the Department of Education (DOE). A student that was a part of this article was bullied and the parent told three school officials and had to pull the student out of the school because there was no action taken place to prevent future incidents similar to what the student experienced.
McClatchy writes for a national newspaper in Minnesota and is currently drawing attention to cyber bullying. She explores new methods to combat this new type of bullying, which is derived from the internet. This article provides examples on several solutions that have been employed by different states to resolve the issue. Many state governments have come up with new laws requiring schools to construct policies to counter cyber bullying. The article also quotes a professor from John Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public health; he states that the increased usage and reliance on the Internet and smartphones will have a big impact towards cyber bullying.
In Madera High School, physical bullying and harassment may not occur often but on social media there is plenty of it, however, it is not always noticeable that it is bullying cause teenagers find it funny but it can really hurt the victim 's actions. Students and staffs from MHS do not witness physical bullying and harassment on school campus, however, if students do see it happening they are most likely not to report it to someone because the student thinks it is
Annotated Bibliography Sarahi Ali Gutierrez Nevada State College Annotated Bibliography Annotation 1 Piskin, M. (2002). School bullying: definition, types, related factors, and strategies to prevent bullying problems. Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice, 2(2), 555.
Part 6: Important laws for teachers In the education setting a lot of things can happen that is beyond the control of an educator or administrator to stop. Due to the high levels of responsibility that is given to educators and the multiple black and white and gray areas that exist within any conflict or dispute that, it is important to have laws and regulations that protect and aid educators in these situations. These laws cover multiple subjects and one of these topics is bullying and how to handle bullying within the school. According to FindLaw, “states have at least passed a law defining bullying and authorizing school officials or other authorities to take appropriate action to stop it.
Chapter 7: Why Current Anti-Bullying Strategies Fail My greatest inspiration for writing this book was to bring some more insight about truths we find hard to recognize or speak about. Having been introduced to the less obvious aspects of bullying and the less visible types of bullies, the reasons for the fiasco of some of the current anti-bullying strategies are probably becoming clearer. Regardless of all reason of civilization, humans are still irrational beings.
A lot of schools hold regular classes along with assemblies that help teach children on how to identify when bullying is happening. The students are also educated on how to respond
As an administrator, I don’t want my students bullying each other and I know from doing this research how important it is to stop the bullying when it first stops happening. “Most states now have legislation in place that requires schools to address electronic harassment in their antibullying policies, yet
Bullying can happen to anyone. Bullying is an aggressive or unwanted behavior that is being repeated to isolate, harm, or control other people. There are different types of bullying. Like, cyber, verbal, and physical bullying.
Bullying is a really big problem among teens. Some people don’t know what bullying isso here is a brief explanation on what it is, bullying is when someone uses their strength to harmsomeone who is weaker. That is the simplest way to describe bullying, there are many more waysthat people could describe what bullying is. That is just the general definition of physical bullying but there are different types ofbullying like verbal, cyber, and social bullying. Verbal bullying is when someone talks trash orbad about someone.
Bullying in Schools What seems fun and harmless for some students, is painful and degrading to others. Bullying has been a critical issue around schools, but before it was not as dangerous and know as it is now. These do not means bullying was not happening, it means it was not taken into consideration by parents or teachers. They thought it was just peer pressure or a kids game, and sooner or later the kids would be friends again. At one point, bullies think it’s normal to be mean and abusive to other students.
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
Schools with effective approaches educate their students on bullying, and create strict guidelines to follow with serious consequences if not followed. Granada Hills Charter High School has a strong anti-bullying policy, where students are required to adhere to a series of rules which strictly enforce bullying. Should a bully be present, the school enforces strict “disciplinary action if the bullying action negatively affects the school environment, the victim’s attendance, the victim’s feelings about him- or herself, and/or the learning experience” (Granada Hills Charter High School). If a student were to experience these effects, then the bully would be held to specific consequences such as counseling, detention, a parent-student dean conference, referral to school police with possible arrest, suspension, or recommendation for expulsion. The University of North Carolina conducted a systematic review of different anti-bullying policies, and concluded that “anti-bullying policies might be effective at reducing bullying if their content is based on evidence and sound theory and if they are implemented with a high level of fidelity” (Hall).