1.0 Background of Cause
The existence of school bullying in every school is tough to be eliminated. Bullying is defined as a repeating act of treating people in an aggressive and violent way to show their strengths and power. Making the victim unable to defend themselves and listen to what the bully says. (Rigby, 2002). Bullying can be in the form of verbal, psychological or physical attacks towards the victim, making them to experience fear towards the bully. (Khalim & Norshidah, 2007). School bullying in the school at hallways, corridors, toilet, classrooms and at almost every corner in the school. Bullying in school will cause the victim to suffer from long-term psychological effects and it will affect the way of them in growing up. (Lee, 2016).
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During March of this year, a case of five students forcing their schoolmate to cut his tongue as he was threatened by the bullies if he does not want to get beaten up. (Chan, 2016). This incident happened at a school in Bukit Tinggi. During September of this year, a school bullying video was posted online showing a male student being beaten up and the classmates were just standing and looking at the incident. This video caught the attention of public and the police forces due to the brutal assault towards the male student. It is confirmed that the video was taken at a religious school at Putatan, Sabah. (The Star Online, 2016). With these incidents, it caught the attention of the schools, public and even the police force on the seriousness of school bullying
Around the world there are many kind of problems that afflict kids of all age but there is one in particular that is relevant, this problem is the bullying. Also many kids commit suicide because of this problem, this isn't an actual problem, the bullying exist many years ago almost all generations of humans witness the bullying in the childhood.
There are four types of bullying 1.physical bullying physical bullying includes hitting kicking tripping pinching and pushing or damaging property one other type of bullying is 2.verbal bullying contains of name calling insults teasing intimidation homophobic or racist remarks and verbal abuse. The third type of bullying is covert or hidden bullying this is the hardest type of bullying to recognize because it is usually carried by their back some examples for this is lying and spreading rumours making fun of their appearance and how they look and mimicking unkind stuff and the fourth type of bullying is cyber bullying cyber bullying occurs on digital technology that 's including computers and smartphones and social media, messaging, texts and websites and other this may include abusive texts emails or post and images another way of cyber bullying is group chats of nasty gossip or rumours imitating others online using their login. There are many ways to bully someone buy just don 't do it in the first place and don 't be a bystander thank you students teachers and judges for listening to my
Bullies are usually stronger and victims are usually perceived as weaker and unable to protect themselves.” (Masterson,1997) Bullying expands in many aspects of everyday life; from schoolchildren and teenagers, to adults , working environments and even spouses and family members. Considering that the first signs of bullying appear among schoolchildren, we should examine it in its infancy, that is, bullying in early years and school life, which in turn becomes with the passage of years violence and in some cases even crime. As far as bullying at school is concerned, “one definition is that a student is being bullied or victimized, when he or she is exposed, repeatedly and over time , to negative actions on the part of one or more other students.”
Bullying is an undesirable, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves actual disparity of power. According to Megan Brooks bullying is a serious public health problems, with significant short-and long-term psychological consequences for the child who is bullied and the child who is the bully. This only tells us that bullying can lead to difficulty that a certain children may experience and will have either short or long term problem. “Bullying has long been tolerated as a rite of passage among children and adolescents, but it has lasting, negative consequences and cannot simply be ignored.” Committee chair Frederick Rivera, MD.
This article explains what is bullying exactly. Bullying is any form of psychological, verbal, or physical abuse that occurs repeatedly among schoolchildren over a period. Statistically, the dominant type of violence is emotional and occurs mostly in the classroom and courtyard of schools. Bullying is a kind of torture, methodical and systematic, in which the aggressor sums up the victim, often with silence, indifference or complicity of other comrades. The author explains some characteristic and consequences of bullying.
Recently, bullying has been becoming more and more of an issue. It’s gotten so bad that one out of four kids deal with it. Currently, bullying is worldwide. There’s no place where it began, because it’s pretty much human nature. Many people are trying to stop it, whether by using zero-tolerance policies, small punishments, and more, however, nothing has worked so far.
Bullying has been named an “emerging public health issue requiring intervention” (Ansary, Elias, Greene, & Green, 2015, p. 27). As a major problem in schools around the world, the issue of bullying must be addressed in order to keep students physically and emotionally safe. The act of bullying not only affects the well-being of the person being targeted, but it also affects the rest of the school community too. It can be difficult for teachers, principals, and superintendents to make an ethical decision about what to do when bullying occurs because there are misunderstandings about what bullying is, leading to the improper identification of situations.
Bullying and Cyber bullying: History, Statistics, Law, Prevention and Analysis By: Richard Donegan Abstract: Based on this article issue my scope will be mention about the cyber bullying or bullying that arises in the Malaysia among the secondary school student and also the university student. Bullying has been established in American society since the establishment of the country. Coming from capitalism economic and competitive social hierarchies, bullying is still a relevant issue throughout the year.
What is bullying? Bullying is hurting someone unreasonably or to cause embarrassment. School is supposed to be a place where students should feel safe and sound. Many students have difficulty to go to school every day due to bullying issues. Bullying is becoming a terrible problem in our society.
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.
Name: Syed Saheemuddin Topic: Bullying Thesis Statement: Bullying has long been a practice witnessed in schoolyards and classrooms across the country. To varying degrees, bullying has been proven to cause anxiety and depression in teens. Today's generation of teenagers, however, experience a heightened sense of fear due to increases in violent bullying behavior Background: Bullying is most common way if showing hatred toward others in today's society. family genetics play a big part because the type of behavior a child is raised upon, most likely he will end up doing the same things.
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
Why should we stop bullying? “I would rather be a little nobody, than to be an evil somebody.” ― Abraham Lincoln (GoodReads, n.d.). Bullying is a major problem that we haven’t been able to stop, bullying has been exceeding every year, and it is the time to make it stop!
Bullying Can Be Prevented Bullying is a form of violence to pick on victims because they are different from their bullies, have insecurity/jealousy or home problems. The hate towards their victim has something to do with the victim having an unusual gift or being intelligent the bullies has yet to become. It is important that this behavior should be prevented or it will become worse. Bullying is one of the main issues public and private schools have to face on a day-to-day basis. When the bully takes it too far, the victim snaps and retaliates by fighting him/her back physically or verbally.
Historically, the most momentous turning point of bullying happened in the mid 1970’s where a research professor of psychology Dan Olweus, conducted an intensive