Essay On Bullying Should Not Be Harshly Penalized

Why Bullying Should Not Be Harshly Penalized Childhood and teenage bullying is a growing problem in the US with the help of social media. Bullying is an aggressive act of verbal criticism or physical violence towards a person or a group of people. Bullies have been in the school environment since anyone can remember. Children and teenagers used to handle bullying themselves, by talking to their families and getting advice on what to do. Either they gave the kid enough of his own medicine to make him stop or they talked to the bully’s parents and his parents would knock it right out of him. Back in the day, you would never hear of a family trying to sue the school district or anyone for a child being bullied. The reason is because the definition and perspective of discipline has completely changed since then. Bullying has gotten out of control because children no longer have any respect for others due to the lack of discipline and morals being taught at home. Society used to take responsibility for its own actions and there was always a solution to its own problems. Today’s society likes to victimize itself and put …show more content…
So many parents in this generation want school teachers to raise their child for them and then blame anybody for when the child messes up or does something wrong. People need to understand that bullying is not a crime. At its heart, bullying is just a reflection of how adults treat each other in the Hollywood, business, and the political world. Magazines, newspaper articles, and television shows all are full of criticism to somebody’s work, physique, style, music, etc. Whatever the case may be, children do what they see. It is solely up to parents to raise their children correctly and teach them how to overcome obstacles such as bullying. That is the harsh truth of it all. However, that does not mean that bullying should be ignored or that bullies should not get any