Stricter Punishments for Bullies “For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage ' and by asking students to simply 'get over it. ' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let 's break this silence and end school bullying” (Linda Sanchez). This is stating that schools are letting bullies get away with bullying, and telling the victims that it is normal. But there is nothing normal about being picked on because of who you are. This is what is happening, The National Education Association reports that 6 of every 10 American teenagers witness bullying in school every day. An estimated 160,000 students stay home each day out of fear of being
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The definition of bullying is a form of abuse that can be emotional or physical. Although some people believe that bullies are already getting punished enough and that they bully because they are insecure or hurt. Admittedly the bullies are being slightly punished and they may be hurting. Despite this the bully has no right to push their pain onto somebody else. Also not all people bully because of problems they have, they may do it just for fun or to show off in front of peers. The parents of Audrie Pott, a student in Sarasota California, are informing kids and teenagers that nobody should feel like they need to commit suicide. Their daughter, Audrie Pott, committed suicide after three boys from her school sexually assaulted her and put up explicit pictures of her online a week before she took her own life. The court decided that the three boys had to apologize and pay a fine of $950,000. Even though the boys had to pay a fine that does not teach them a lesson, it teaches them that a life can be replaced by money. Now Audrie’s parents have a fund to help victims of bullying, to try to not commit suicide. (Stacy Teicher Khadaroo,1). Another example is in Bucyrus, Ohio. A wave of immigrants moved/settled there and 96% of the town’s 12,000 residents were white. So the citizens started discriminating them, one classroom teacher told his students that …show more content…
Now opponents often argue that bullying teaches people early on that life is not going to be easy. One cannot deny that the world is a mystery and that you have to be strong enough to get thru it. However, bullying somebody won’t make them stronger it will make them feel worse. Plus, there is already enough to teach kids that life isn’t easy. Bullying just adds not needed stress to the victim 's life. Victims of bullying suffer psychological and sometimes physical scars that last a lifetime.Victims report greater fear and anxiety, feel less accepted, suffer more health problems, and score lower on measures of academic achievement, and self-esteem than students who are not bullied. Victims often turn their anger and feelings inward, which may lead to depression, anxiety, and even suicide (Kuther, 12-13). In other words victims become miserable and it can ruin or change their life. Martin Teicher, a neuroscientist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, has been examining the emotional changes during bullying. Teicher and his colleagues went to their young adult subjects, focusing on those they had assumed were healthy in this respect who 'd had no history of abuse. The subjects, however, varied in how much verbal harassment, such as teasing, ridicule, criticism, screaming, and swearing, they had received from their peers. What
The definition of bullying is a form of abuse that can be emotional or physical. Although some people believe that bullies are already getting punished enough and that they bully because they are insecure or hurt. Admittedly the bullies are being slightly punished and they may be hurting. Despite this the bully has no right to push their pain onto somebody else. Also not all people bully because of problems they have, they may do it just for fun or to show off in front of peers. The parents of Audrie Pott, a student in Sarasota California, are informing kids and teenagers that nobody should feel like they need to commit suicide. Their daughter, Audrie Pott, committed suicide after three boys from her school sexually assaulted her and put up explicit pictures of her online a week before she took her own life. The court decided that the three boys had to apologize and pay a fine of $950,000. Even though the boys had to pay a fine that does not teach them a lesson, it teaches them that a life can be replaced by money. Now Audrie’s parents have a fund to help victims of bullying, to try to not commit suicide. (Stacy Teicher Khadaroo,1). Another example is in Bucyrus, Ohio. A wave of immigrants moved/settled there and 96% of the town’s 12,000 residents were white. So the citizens started discriminating them, one classroom teacher told his students that …show more content…
Now opponents often argue that bullying teaches people early on that life is not going to be easy. One cannot deny that the world is a mystery and that you have to be strong enough to get thru it. However, bullying somebody won’t make them stronger it will make them feel worse. Plus, there is already enough to teach kids that life isn’t easy. Bullying just adds not needed stress to the victim 's life. Victims of bullying suffer psychological and sometimes physical scars that last a lifetime.Victims report greater fear and anxiety, feel less accepted, suffer more health problems, and score lower on measures of academic achievement, and self-esteem than students who are not bullied. Victims often turn their anger and feelings inward, which may lead to depression, anxiety, and even suicide (Kuther, 12-13). In other words victims become miserable and it can ruin or change their life. Martin Teicher, a neuroscientist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, has been examining the emotional changes during bullying. Teicher and his colleagues went to their young adult subjects, focusing on those they had assumed were healthy in this respect who 'd had no history of abuse. The subjects, however, varied in how much verbal harassment, such as teasing, ridicule, criticism, screaming, and swearing, they had received from their peers. What