Bullying : Bullying And Bullying

Teasing and playing around are all part of growing up; however, what happens when it happens over and over. The Hernando County Code of Conduct defines bullying as:

Understanding the notion of bullying is undermined by an individual’s point of view, life experience, and personality. What some people declare as bullying others shake off as a typical behavior of kids. Whether the bias also has a base in gender or age the issue that needs to be dealt with is the damage done to the victim and the mental health needs of the perpetrator. The question regarding bullying is about norms and responses to violations of the norms. How students and adults interpret the actions, reactions, and feelings are tied to the level of open communications that exist. Adults often believe it when the student says ‘I’m fine’ because they want to believe it. Students are quite skillful about saying what they think adults want to hear. This lack of communication at home and school leaves a student who is being bullied isolated and vulnerable.

A Bully- or bullying- is someone who takes actions in spreading lies, attacking someone physically or orally, making threats, or excluding someone. It is a common way people use this to feel powerful, to control someone, to hurt people, or to just get “attention.”

The formal definition of a bully is a person who uses strength or power to harm or intimidate those who are weaker. Bullies use intimidation, and threats to harm others in order to make themselves feel powerful and less insecure. Bullies will usually harm another peers due to their own personal insecurities or problems that may occur. If a person has issues such as the way he or she looks, or their intelligence, it may cause them to intentionally harm another person who contains the qualities or skill that the bully does not have. Bullying leads to major problems such as self-harm, a loss in self-confidence, and in extreme cases, suicide. These problems, caused by bullying are an eye-opener to people around the world, but unless personally affected by it, most people do not take charge and find a way to keep it from happening or stop it from reaching the point of no return.

Bullying has become an increasingly widespread social phenomenon. It is defined as a way of seeing aggressive behavior occur within someone that intentionally and repeatedly causes another person injury or discomfort. Bullying may take place in the form of physical contact, verbal use, or even psychologically. There is a major difference in bullying and normal conflict between people. It does not only occur in children, but also in adolescence. Zielinski (2014) suggests that the effects of bullying in childhood can last a lifetime, both for the child who’s bullied and their tormenter. Harassment falls into the same category and effects individuals in similar ways to those of bullying. Girdwain (2016) explains several factors that constitute bullying in old age. This paper examines Zielinski (2014) and Girdwain (2016) relation to other research articles to show the brutal side of bullying and how to fully understand the effects of it on children adolescents even the elderly.

When someone uses higher strength to influence, intimidate or force the victim to do what they want is known around the world as a bully. Bullying has become a big problem in the U.S. as days go by it seems like there is nothing that can stop this problem. There are different types of bullying and different places that bullying can occur. There is physical bullying, verbal bullying, relational aggression, cyber bullying, sexual bullying, and prejudicial bullying. But the most common ones are physical bullying, cyber bullying, and relational bullying. Bullying can also occur in different places like at home, at school, at parks, at workplaces, etc. In recent time periods, all around the country the number of suicides among teens have been rising, unfortunately due to bullying. To protect the students more, the department of education should start to apply some more strict rules against bullying. Although bullying can make someone raise their confidence, the victim is helpless and insecure so this problem needs to be stopped as a result, the possible victims can feel safe and protected out in the public.

What happens with bullies and the people that get bullied during school and when they get out of school?” Although most bullies think they're hot stuff and have the right to push people around, others are actually insecure.”says U.S. Department of Health & Human Services “Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time.”says U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems.” bullying needs to stop it’s not good for the bully and the person getting bullied.bullying at school should stop because it can impact someone's ability to learn, Anxiety,and ways to prevent bullying at school and in the community.

The issue of bullying has become a continuing challenge in most schools. Bullying is something that continues to affect all schools throughout the United States. Bullying is defined as recurrent physical, verbal, sexual, or emotional attacks or pressure by one person who is viewed as being physically or mentally tougher than someone else (Raskauskas and Modell, 2011). Additionally, bullying is especially seen in or experienced by students in special education programs. Many students in special education have experienced bullying in some form or fashion. Hartley, Bauman, Nixon, and Davis (2015), states that peer hostility and victimization by bullying are unrelenting issues for students obtaining special education services for their debilities. Personal stakeholders in and out of the school system continue to try and find ways to prevent and stop bullying.

Bullying is defined as “unwanted, aggressive behavior among people that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both persons who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems.” In this day and age, there are so many places advertising a no bullying sentiment or trying to get people to donate money or read about how to stop the bullying that goes on in high school. These websites and foundations are all good and dandy but they don’t do anything. They really have no effect on the teens who are actually getting bullied or doing the bullying. Teens will really do what they want in regards as to how they act towards their peers regardless of

Hugues Sampasa-Kanyinga, Paul Roumeliotis, and Hao Xu’s (2014) study analyzed the connection between students (7-12 grade students) being bullied through the use of electronic communication and students bullied at school with three dependent variables (ideation, planning, and attempt), also part of the purpose was to examine if depression had any effect on either the independent or dependent variables. Sampasa-Kanyinga et al. investigated the hypothesis that cyberbullying and school bullying increased the formation of ideas about suicide, planned strategies and the actual try to commit suicide and how the last three dependent variables were influenced by depression (p. 2).

Bullying is defined as unwanted or aggressive behavior that causes someone to feel afraid or intimidated. This behavior could be something physical, verbal, or something done electronically or through social media. If someone feels threatened by someone’s actions or words, it could be considered bullying, even if that was not the intent.There are many types of bullying, how to recognize bullying, how to report bullying, what to do if you see incidents of bullying, and what resources are available to persons who have been bullied.

Fisher et al. (2014) discusses the prevalent ethical issue of bullying in the United States. The research questions the correlation between school diversity, student race victimization, and bullying. 4,581 middle school students in grades sixth through eighth were surveyed. The data collected was from a 208-questionare, assessed the students’ physical, social, and psychological behaviors. School diversity was measured by dividing the number of a specific ethic racial group by the total number of students in the school. Student race victimization was calculated by a specific question in the survey of “a kid at my school teased me about my race/ethnicity or the color of my skin.” Bullying was determined by 13 items in the survey related to social exclusion, physical aggression, and name calling. The students were also asked to write the number of times these incidents occurred in the past year (p. 1241-1244). Results proved that there was a link between bullying and race. Middle school European American students were bullied more than their peers when they are the ethnic minority (Fisher et al., 2014). After carefully reviewing the study, the privileged group of European Americans may still experience oppression of bullying while being the minority in a school setting.

Individuals belonging to certain populations are at greater risk of being bullied and victimized. Children that are overweight, of color, disabled, or members of the lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual (LGBT), are all at increased risk of victimization. Students with developmental disabilities are two to three times more likely to be bullied than nondisabled students (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2015). It’s also been noted that disabled students are more worried about their own personal safety and remaining free from injury while attending school than students without disability. 24.7% of African-American students, 17.2% of Hispanic students, and 9% of Asian students reported being bullied at school (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2015). 74.1% of LGBT students were verbally bullied in the past year because of their sexual orientation and 55.2% because of their gender expression (National School Climate Survey, 2013). 64% of students enrolled in weight-loss programs reported experiencing weight-based victimization and 84% of students observed students perceived as overweight being called names or getting teased during physical activities (Puhl, Leudicke, & Heuer, 2012).

Every teenager hates when their parents relate back to their generation being in school and how it was so easy. The world needs to take into account all of the ongoing norms that keep altering in generations today. Society around us changes everyday which means the things you have to go through are different than what other generations might’ve had to overcome. Robin Henig and Maria Konnikova separately researched and wrote about this “millennial generation” and how different aspects are playing into the decline of maturation for adolescence into adulthood. Technologies easy access to social media today is what really needs to be focused on. Although social networking allows for great connections and even expands your friend group, Konnikova is right. Networking is only causing a decline in social interaction around the world and in my opinion leading us as humans to more judgement, ridicule, and bullying. The acts of bullying are affecting Gen Y's adult years more than people are realizing, as it potentially leads to psychological problems, wrong decisions, and even alters social interactions with others.

What is a bully? A bully is a person who uses strength or power to harm or intimidate those who are weaker. There are many types of bullying. There is verbal bullying when someone is saying or writing mean things. Verbal bullying includes teasing, name-calling, inappropriate sexual comments, and threatening to cause self harm. Another form of bullying is social bullying. It involves hurting someone’s reputation or relationship. Social bullying includes spreading rumors about someone, telling other children not to be friends with someone, and embarrassing someone in public. Then there is physical bullying which involves hurting a person’s body or possessions. Which includes hitting or kicking, tripping, taking or breaking someone’s things.