Bullying Culture

The term “bullying culture” honestly does not seem fit to be in the same sentence as Benton High School (BHS) to most people. We do not have the old school bully’s who push kids up against lockers and demand for their lunch money. Sometimes I feel as though that is all the teachers look out for. My perspective of the bullying culture located in BHS contrasts harshly with what most would say. The thing about bullying that most people tend to forget, is bullying has advanced. Whether we like it or not, bullying does not happen in the same form as it used to. Bullying is not as much physical abuse, it is now verbal abuse. This verbal abuse often turns into mental abuse. From here, the victims often turn the mental into the physical abuse. This is something that I do believe happens quite often in BHS. I see it everyday. Students are demeaned, teased, and roasted. Yes, our generation literally made a term to make bullying sound more socially acceptable: roasted. Therefore, my perspective is …show more content…
Today, bullying is in the form of tweets, snapchats, and stories. Our students are being bullied everyday through technological platforms. Technology and social media has been a huge factor in the evolution of bullying. Considering the only way my generation stays in communication, outside of school, is our phones, this leaves a lot of room for bullying to evolve. Face to face confirmation is not a thing anymore. Due to this, the bullies had to find another way to cause harm. Words. Words do hurt, and the bullies know that. Our nation has changed the way we feel harm. We are now more sensitive to these words, because this is usually the only form of bullying we now come into contact with. I believe this is all technologies fault. Most people claim that taking away the face to face confirmation has desensitized us. No, it has actually caused our generation to grow more