The 2011 anti-bullying policy, the Matt Epling Safe School Law, required that every school district develop a policy to address bullying within the school. The law states that schools must ensure bullying is prohibited and have safeguards in place to protect against false reports, as well as the person doing the reporting. The policy must also have appropriate people identified to implement and monitor the procedures, as well as investigate and report (Matt Epling Safe School Law, 2011/2014). The law has very little reach beyond requiring a written policy. There is no requirement in the law for implementation of the policy or the extent to which the policy must be implemented.…
Bullying should not be tolerated at schools NRocha psy 201-A5 Bullying at school Bullying at schools has been affecting many of the students. Students have been torturing in different ways; verbally abused, pinch, kick, pushed and mental abuse. Also, Female students are being bullied in a higher level than male students at schools. (Allie Bidwell, 2015).…
I researched about some students who are being pushed around in school and planned to turn the gun on them in school. Most these shooters ended up subsiding before the police arrive. I feel like a big solution to this problem is to stop bullying in school that causes depression and anger. A lot of people will complain that we never have a code red situations. Well, it is correct because most of these situations are really rare with people having some medical issues on dealing with depression.…
With school violence at a constant rise, it is essential that the root issue of mental health be looked at because no one truly knows when the…
That can cause some short terms effects like low self-confidence, depression, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts, abnormal fears and worries, sleep disorders, nervous habits, bed-wetting, poor appetite or digestive problems. In the long run it can cause psychological post-trauma disorders, self destructive behavior, and alcohol or substance abuse. Bullying can really break a person down, if people do not stop it now. The bullier could have problems of their own so they resort to bullying as a relief or a sense of power over another person. Meanwhile people bully others because of lack of adult supervision, jealousy, revenge, take their feelings out on or want to get noticed, they like having power over their peers, they have problems at…
Make them softer, by improving social and emotional health.” This is a good starter to take some kind of action, but it will not always be just the kids causing a school shooting. This statement “So, if you devote resources to shutting down bullying, discrimination and harassment, there is a chance to de-escalate conflict before it starts.” This is indeed true and can work, but if we are only considering the students and not the other people that have no association with the school. However, indeed this document on improving emotional health is a great way to decrease school shooting instead of arming teachers with guns.…
In modern day 21st century, society has become a mixture of indecisive decisions made by individuals. These choices lead to various world-renown events, and one of the main events that humans result to within the general public is school shootings. School shootings are recurring events that are seen to bring out the “flaws” in civilization. Sociologist Glenn Muschert defines school attacks as, “rampage attacks where victims were specifically targeted or selected for symbolic reasons” (Muschert). School shootings can be prevented with thoughtful, thorough regulations of guns and psychological evaluations of human beings.…
When I was younger I wanted to go to Harvard, that was my dream. Unfortunately, I was discouraged when I found out how much it cost to attend. However, that didn’t stop Selamawi Asgedom from not only attending Harvard, but getting a full-ride there. Growing up as a refugee in America, Mawi had to overcome many obstacles such as the appeal of stealing, the alienation from bullies, and the struggles of poverty, which then motivated him to work for what he wanted. The philosophy that if a person steals something small once, then the next thing that the person takes will be bigger, and then the stealing will escalate from there can be painfully correct.…
Have you ever been bullied in your life before? Bullying has become a big problem in America for many years now (The Really Big Problem Behind The Really Big Problem). This is important because lots of people can get injured (mentally and physically) from just one person being bullied. People such as parents, teachers, siblings, friends, classmates, and loved ones can get involved in bullying. Bullying tends to change the lives of many people and even take some lives as well.…
By screening children for their mental health, could schools prevent campus violence? This article has the opinions of 6 mental health experts on whether or not schools should screen their students for mental health problems. Most of their points support the screening in schools based on many factors. The lack of mental health care causes a burden to many children. Since school is where students spend a majority of their time,it is the ideal place to have access to mental health screening and intervention if needed.…
The district that I chose has a population of 24,729 residents. This district is located in the suburbs. The majority of the residents in this district in White. The district includes one early child education center, four elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school. The district's policy was clear in their definition of bullying and cyberbullying.…
How Far Will We Go to Keep Our Schools Safe? As a result of trying to keep our schools safe a new legislation has been passed that allows guns on school campuses. That decision has a lot of people questioning whether or not they made the right decision. For me they did not make the right decision yes, I believe that people have the right to bare arms but not in public places like school where kids are supposed to feel safe and not worry about firearms.…
America needs to start doing more about a big issue called bullying. Bullying affects 28% of kids sixth through twelfth grade in the United States. As is, bullying is becoming more and more of a problem. About twenty years ago is when bullying started to get a problem and now it is spiraling out of control. One of the many cliches is that the bigger kid is the bully, but that is not always the case.…
Essentially, the United States of America uses the internet every single day, but isn't always for a good outcome. Each day someone is being bullied, but most of the time peers won't be able to tell whether or not he or she is being bullied or not, the reason is something called cyber bullying, people get bullied online every day. Citizens, mostly children, talk to random people online to get to know them, but authorities can't stop the perpetrator until it is too late. Another dreadful outcome from lack of monitoring the internet is people can post whatever they want, carelessly thinking of what others may think, and will only get taken down from the internet if complains. Suicide is the Number 3 killer of teens in the U.S., around 4,500…
One problem that is ever evolving and continuously effects young adolescence in school is bullying. Bullying can be defined as an activity in which someone intentionally participates in either physically or emotionally harming a peer through any medium; such as words, actions, or technology. By applying this definition to the term bullying, it makes sense that almost every teenager in America can identify a time when they were bullied, when they bullied someone else, or a time when they saw a peer get harassed. And with an increase in technology use, minorities in school, and a growing LGBT group in the education system the problem is only going to get worse. There is a common misconception in the adult community as well as media that somehow…