ESSAY

Current Issue­- Bullying in schools

            Bullying is defines as an aggressive behavior  that is persistent, intentional, and involves an imbalance of power  or strength. There are four kinds  of bullying, that is physical, emotional, verbal and cyber bullying. In colloquial speech, bullying is most often used to describe a form of harassment associated with being performed by a child who is older, stronger, or otherwise more powerful socially, upon weaker peers.  School bullying is a type of bullying that occurs in connection with education, either inside or outside of school. Recently there's  been  much increased  awareness of bullying in schools and whilst it may appear that bullying is on the increase.

 

ARTICLE 1 – CAUSES OF BULLYING IN SCHOOL

Bullying is when someone repeatedly acts or says things to have power over another person. Bullies mainly use a combination of intimidation and humiliation to torment others. According to the first article that I choose, I find out that there are some causes of bullying in school. Bullying is not a new problem, but it is gaining more attention as episodes of school violence are increasing. The causes of bullying is desire for  attention showed  that children who do not get attention or emotional support  at  home  may try  to get noticed even in negative way  by humiliating  someone  else. Bullying in school also causes by a cycle of abuse that is some children are only repeating behaviours they witness at home.  The child is being abused and is expressing their anger through bullying.  Other than that, bullying in school also  caused by  influence of media  that encourage  and  even  praise  violent  behaviour as a  means to assert oneself. Taken out of context, a trouble child may use these examples as ways of being aggressive to gain popularity with peers. Besides that, gang membership also becomes a factor of bullying in school. Gang memberships often use threats and intimidation to initiate new recruits and continue to use these methods to deal with opposing gangs.  In addtion, undue influence also causes a bullying in school while the child has fallen in with the wrong crowd and so on.

ARTICLE 2 – EFFECTS OF BULLYING IN SCHOOL

 Bullying can leave some effects on the individual who being a victim of bullying. According to the second article that I choose by Valerie Martin, I find out some of effects of bullying in school. That  one of the most profound impacts of bullying is its effect on a child's self-esteem. Bullying can lead to feelings of worthlessness  and  depression, which can interfere with schoolwork. When a  child’s  is worrying about bullying, it may make difficult for  them  to  concentrate  on necessary tasks and  impossible for them to concentrate on their studies or to succeed at extracurricular activities. Deficits in academic performance can easily occur when bullying victims succumb to depression or otherwise become  demoralized. They certainly also occur when victims ditch school to avoid bullies.  Besides that, bullying  in school  causing a  physical harm  to  children who become a victim of bullying such as bruising, scrapes, cuts and damaged clothing.  Bullies may also attempt to steal or destroy objects of value, such as electronics or money.  While, effects to bullies are likely to become violent, drop out of school, or get into other serious trouble as adults. Bullies also become a disrespect for teachers.  In addition, bullying  also  creates a hostile  school environment, which may effect  even children who are not directly bullied, who may fear being bullied and become distracted from their studies and other pursuits. Therefore, bullying also causing legal action, against the school or education authority and against the bully's family. Bullying also damaged  relationship between  parents and child that  may  be  strained  because of the child's hostility towards school. A child may blame his parent for forcing  him to go and may also begin asking for more allowance and lunch  funds money if  the bully  is demanding  money from him. A child  also may isolate himself or develop a general distrust of people. A child may also seek  revenge on  his bully or feel  justified in attacking other children to relieve stress or anxiety. 

ARTICLE 3 – WAYS TO REDUCE BULLYING IN SCHOOL

Even though great strides have been made, bullying in schools still remain a problem. Signs of being a victim of bullying regularly present themselves. While bullying   decreases as a child gets older, many of the effects of bullying can last long in the child's life. Before it's too late, intervention must take place to stop and control bullying. Both victims and instigators of bullying need to be professionally counseled.  According to the third article from Wikipedia page, I find out that there are some ways to reduce the bullying in school.  Parents can be educated in bullying too, which will allow them to reinforce what they know at home. Also, by being informed, parents will be better able to recognize if their child is an instigator or victim of bullying. Besides that, parents should teach their child to defend himself or herself, verbally and physically, if necessary. But, parents should not teach their  kids to hit or fight back; it will only make things worse. Parents should offer to make the complaint if their child is unwilling to report the bullying cases  to a teacher. Schools can modify curriculum and hold school-wide awareness and prevention programs to prevent bullying. School should do a supervising to get a maintain higher visibility so that a bullying cases can be identify, enforce anti bully laws, help bullies with anger control and the development of empathy. School should recognise that bullying can occur at  all  levels  within  the hierarchy  of the school. In addition, school should  offer a variety of extracurricular activities which appeal to a range of interests, emphasize caring, respect and safety.