Anti-Bullying Programs
What is a bully? According to The Free Dictionary as quoted by Joseph Simplicio, a bully is a "...person who is habitually cruel or overbearing especially to smaller or weaker people." Bullies cause children among school age to feel clinically depressed, isolated, powerless to change their situation, and they often perform poorly in school. Children should not have to feel this way ever which is why the Gresham-Barlow school district needs a policy to prevent bullying.
The first step in making an effective bullying policy for the district is to really understand that bullying can be done in several forms like threats, intimidation, social isolation, and humiliation according to Kate Anton at the YMCA Crisis Center in …show more content…
Eight Years earlier, only 14 percent of that population said they had experienced bullying." (Ollove, Michael) This means that a lot more people are reporting their bullies instead of keeping quiet. Ollove explains in the article Bullying Increases the Risk of Teen Suicide how experts agree that anti-bullying programs that encourage victims to confide in adults helped improve better reporting on bullies. By creating a zero tolerance policy it encourages victims to report their incidents, which in return help to narrow down and isolate …show more content…
By giving keeping parents informed we are helping them to pay attention to their child's behavior and communicate with them, which can lead to parents helping their children from falling victim to bullying. According to "Challenge Discovery Projects," "every thirty minutes a teenager attempts suicide due to bullying and one out of ten students drop out of school because of bullying." Parents need to be informed more about bullying because many of them believe that bullying can only be caused through physical altercations, when truth be told it can takes several more forms than just
What is a bully? According to The Free Dictionary as quoted by Joseph Simplicio, a bully is a "...person who is habitually cruel or overbearing especially to smaller or weaker people." Bullies cause children among school age to feel clinically depressed, isolated, powerless to change their situation, and they often perform poorly in school. Children should not have to feel this way ever which is why the Gresham-Barlow school district needs a policy to prevent bullying.
The first step in making an effective bullying policy for the district is to really understand that bullying can be done in several forms like threats, intimidation, social isolation, and humiliation according to Kate Anton at the YMCA Crisis Center in …show more content…
Eight Years earlier, only 14 percent of that population said they had experienced bullying." (Ollove, Michael) This means that a lot more people are reporting their bullies instead of keeping quiet. Ollove explains in the article Bullying Increases the Risk of Teen Suicide how experts agree that anti-bullying programs that encourage victims to confide in adults helped improve better reporting on bullies. By creating a zero tolerance policy it encourages victims to report their incidents, which in return help to narrow down and isolate …show more content…
By giving keeping parents informed we are helping them to pay attention to their child's behavior and communicate with them, which can lead to parents helping their children from falling victim to bullying. According to "Challenge Discovery Projects," "every thirty minutes a teenager attempts suicide due to bullying and one out of ten students drop out of school because of bullying." Parents need to be informed more about bullying because many of them believe that bullying can only be caused through physical altercations, when truth be told it can takes several more forms than just