Bullying is common in any school or social teenage setting and is a worldwide problem. This problem, however, is constantly unnoticed and seen as just kids being kids. Where is the line drawn? When does it stop being kids just being kids and start to become something more dangerous? Even when the line is crossed, how often does someone stand up and say something? Why doesn’t anybody help these young, helpless kids? It is time for someone to find a solution and put an end to this worldwide epidemic. Bullying has been known to cause suicide. It is used in many different ways, and usually targets a specific kind of teen or child. Bullying is downplayed because parents tend to think that kids should learn to “fight their own battles” and defend
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That year, two students brought guns to school, both of whom had been identified as gifted and who had been bullied for years, killed 13 people, wounded 24 and then committed suicide (Boodman). A year later, an analysis was done by officials at the U.S. Secret Service. They found that 37 premeditated school shootings involved bullying playing a major role in more than two-thirds of the attacks. In a nation-wide study, 432 gifted students in 11 states were studied for bullying. More than two-thirds of academically talented eighth-graders say they have been bullied at school and nearly one-third of the students harbored violent thoughts as a result of their bullying (Boodman). Not only is this a problem in the United States but it is just as big of a problem in the United Kingdom as well. There is an estimated fifteen to twenty-five students a year that commit suicide in the United Kingdom due to casing of bullying or other forms of harassment (Coastkid). Unfortunately leaving school isn’t even a way for these helpless children to escape the …show more content…
There are three major types of bullying. These include school bullying, hazing, and cyber bullying. School bullying is the standard humiliation at school in front of classmates. For them, the bullying is entertainment. The other students either laugh at the victim being humiliated or they are involved in humiliating the victim and find pleasure out of making somebody feel worthless. Hazing is a kind of bullying where it is often seen as a joke but can be just as harmful as any other kind of bullying. Hazing may constitute as harassment, abuse, or humiliation with requirements to perform tasks, usually as a way of initiation into a social group or sports team (Elliot). The term can refer to either physical or mental practices, in which the victims can either, be physically harmed or mentally degraded. It is an arguable matter where to draw to line between normal hazing and a simple rite of passage, and then there is a gray area where the other side passes over into sheer degrading, even harmful abuse that should not be tolerated even if accepted by the victim voluntarily (Elliot). The last form of bullying is cyber bullying. This involves bullying or harassment over the internet including social networking sites such as Myspace, Facebook, Twitter and any other website. This type of bullying has grown over the years with the media growing and younger kids have started to use the
That year, two students brought guns to school, both of whom had been identified as gifted and who had been bullied for years, killed 13 people, wounded 24 and then committed suicide (Boodman). A year later, an analysis was done by officials at the U.S. Secret Service. They found that 37 premeditated school shootings involved bullying playing a major role in more than two-thirds of the attacks. In a nation-wide study, 432 gifted students in 11 states were studied for bullying. More than two-thirds of academically talented eighth-graders say they have been bullied at school and nearly one-third of the students harbored violent thoughts as a result of their bullying (Boodman). Not only is this a problem in the United States but it is just as big of a problem in the United Kingdom as well. There is an estimated fifteen to twenty-five students a year that commit suicide in the United Kingdom due to casing of bullying or other forms of harassment (Coastkid). Unfortunately leaving school isn’t even a way for these helpless children to escape the …show more content…
There are three major types of bullying. These include school bullying, hazing, and cyber bullying. School bullying is the standard humiliation at school in front of classmates. For them, the bullying is entertainment. The other students either laugh at the victim being humiliated or they are involved in humiliating the victim and find pleasure out of making somebody feel worthless. Hazing is a kind of bullying where it is often seen as a joke but can be just as harmful as any other kind of bullying. Hazing may constitute as harassment, abuse, or humiliation with requirements to perform tasks, usually as a way of initiation into a social group or sports team (Elliot). The term can refer to either physical or mental practices, in which the victims can either, be physically harmed or mentally degraded. It is an arguable matter where to draw to line between normal hazing and a simple rite of passage, and then there is a gray area where the other side passes over into sheer degrading, even harmful abuse that should not be tolerated even if accepted by the victim voluntarily (Elliot). The last form of bullying is cyber bullying. This involves bullying or harassment over the internet including social networking sites such as Myspace, Facebook, Twitter and any other website. This type of bullying has grown over the years with the media growing and younger kids have started to use the