Bullies as Criminals Ruth Benedict once wrote, “The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer, it’s that there are so many answers.” Every environment or society needs to know that any problem can have a different approach and strategy in order be solved. The act of legislating a new law to combat bullying will not fix the situation overall. Laws are not the answer to every common difficulty. How are making laws going to prevent something that has already become such a huge crisis? Laws give people the power to do something about bullying, not the authority to grant children a one way ticket to prison. Bullying may have played a terrible role in so many people’s lives, but by creating new laws will not solve this problem.
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Many bullies do not always have the intention to actually hurt people physically and they do not need to be sent to prison for their words either. If people do agree on allowing prison as the only solution, then what will be the outcome for the bully? Robert Trestan, a writer for the New York Times also agrees that allowing the law to permit prison to be the solution will only inflict more problems for the bully as well. He believes, “Passing new laws to criminalize bullying will only lead to leaving school with a record instead of a diploma. It is not the solution.” Many students at school are deemed to pass successfully, but if being a jerk is what lands them into prison, then it will only effect poorly on their future. Stomping out bullying by using prison will only postpone the problem, and not completely solve it. John Gleissner, a attorney and author of Prison & Slavery - A Surprising Comparison, states that “The public agreed to the idea of prisons because it got rid of the problem temporarily and seemed better than capital and corporal punishment.” The media or public thinks that by sending bullies to prison, the matter will end, but what they do not understand is that it …show more content…
Even the law holds parents responsible for any damage their child causes. The Co-Director of the Cyberbullying Research Center, Dr. Justin Patchin, clarifies that “Parental liability laws hold parents accountable, and financially liable, for the behavior of their children when it is deemed that the parents were negligent in their obligation to provide proper parental care and supervision.” Laws are mandatory when it comes to adults and parents, and although they had no part in the bullying incident, it is still their responsibility of what their child does. Even parents of many children who were exposed to bullying agree that adults are highly responsible for their child’s actions. Jeannie Chambers, mother of suicide victim, Kenneth Weishuhn, also agrees that parents and adults are to be held liable for their child’s behavior. She states that “ ‘A lot of people don’t understand: These kids learned it from home’ ” (Toppo). As Chambers stated in her quote on how kids learn bullying at home, everyone can agree that home is the most common workplace where bullying starts. Parents are encouraged to raise their children in a manner where they will not be revealed to bullying at all. Parents have had a chance to see their child grow their whole lives, and not being able to teach them the dangers and causes of bullying is a huge deal. Even Caitlin Rocco, a
Imprisoning …show more content…
Many bullies do not always have the intention to actually hurt people physically and they do not need to be sent to prison for their words either. If people do agree on allowing prison as the only solution, then what will be the outcome for the bully? Robert Trestan, a writer for the New York Times also agrees that allowing the law to permit prison to be the solution will only inflict more problems for the bully as well. He believes, “Passing new laws to criminalize bullying will only lead to leaving school with a record instead of a diploma. It is not the solution.” Many students at school are deemed to pass successfully, but if being a jerk is what lands them into prison, then it will only effect poorly on their future. Stomping out bullying by using prison will only postpone the problem, and not completely solve it. John Gleissner, a attorney and author of Prison & Slavery - A Surprising Comparison, states that “The public agreed to the idea of prisons because it got rid of the problem temporarily and seemed better than capital and corporal punishment.” The media or public thinks that by sending bullies to prison, the matter will end, but what they do not understand is that it …show more content…
Even the law holds parents responsible for any damage their child causes. The Co-Director of the Cyberbullying Research Center, Dr. Justin Patchin, clarifies that “Parental liability laws hold parents accountable, and financially liable, for the behavior of their children when it is deemed that the parents were negligent in their obligation to provide proper parental care and supervision.” Laws are mandatory when it comes to adults and parents, and although they had no part in the bullying incident, it is still their responsibility of what their child does. Even parents of many children who were exposed to bullying agree that adults are highly responsible for their child’s actions. Jeannie Chambers, mother of suicide victim, Kenneth Weishuhn, also agrees that parents and adults are to be held liable for their child’s behavior. She states that “ ‘A lot of people don’t understand: These kids learned it from home’ ” (Toppo). As Chambers stated in her quote on how kids learn bullying at home, everyone can agree that home is the most common workplace where bullying starts. Parents are encouraged to raise their children in a manner where they will not be revealed to bullying at all. Parents have had a chance to see their child grow their whole lives, and not being able to teach them the dangers and causes of bullying is a huge deal. Even Caitlin Rocco, a