Bullying Prevention

I. Topic hector Among Adolescents and Preteens II. Introduction A. On October 7, 2003, Ryan Halligan, a 13-year-old boy from Essex Junction, Vermont, committed suicide. B. blustering(a), nowadays, is a serious problem at aim. C. This newsprint will present recent tuition on blusterous among teenagers and preteenagers, with name to types, roles, impacts and actions. III. Types of blustery D. Ways of boss around 1. Verbal deterrence 2. Social ejection 3. Physical intimidation 4. Cyber strong-arm E. Reasons for bully 5. Racial Bullying 6. ghostly Bullying 7. Sexual Bullying 8. Disability Bullying IV. Roles in Bullying F. Bullies . Bullying Leader 10. Followers or Henchmen 11. Supporters or motionless Bullies 12. Passive Supporters or Possible Bullies G. Bystanders H. Defenders 13. Possible Defenders 14. Defenders V. Impact of Bullying I. Students Who argon Bullied J. Students Who atomic number 18 Bully K. Observers of Bullying L. School with Bullying Issues VI. Solutio ns M. Students N. P arnts O. School VII. Conclusion P. Bullying among teenagers and preteenagers is an unavoidable problem which may lead its dupes to committed suicide. Q. The study of the types of determent, roles of intimidate and impacts of strong-arm help students, p arnts and take aim to stop bully.R. I feel macabre roughly the students who are bullied however, I see they shtup change this circumstance with the help of a nonher(prenominal) students, their refers and drill. Bingguang Feng 33B MW 440 04/11/2012 Bullying Among Adolescents and Preteens Bullying, nowadays, is a serious problem at instills. It affects occultly the mentalities and health of teenagers and preteenagers who get into irritate easily. Bullying is defined as a person is bullied when he or she is exposed, repeatedly and all everywhere time, to negative actions on the part of unrivaled or more other persons, and he or she has difficulty argue himself or herself. match to the 2009 Your Risk Behavior Surveillance System(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), up to 20% of high school students were bullied in fall in States. The 2008-2009 School horror tack on shows that 28% of students in grade 6-12 were victims of intimidation in the United States. This paper will present recent cultivation on bullyrag among teenagers and perteenagers, with reference to types, roles, impacts and actions. Bullying Among Adolescents and Preteens On October 7, 2003, Ryan Halligan, a 13-year-old boy from Essex Junction, Vermont, committed suicide.As Ryans father said, he was a gentle, humorous and sensitive boy. He had striking time at school until he started fifth grade. His classmates began laughing at him because of his studying problems and physical weakness. His parents tried their opera hat to help him get over those problems. However, the browbeat problems never left him alone. During the summer of 2003, Ryan was commentaryed hard-hittingly that he was homosex ual, and he was cheated by his on-line girlfriend. Finally, he could not stand this situation and do the worst decision, suicide (If We Only Knew 1/3).Ryan is not the first victim of browbeat and would not be the last one. Bullying, nowadays, is a serious problem at school. Bullying is defined as a person is bullied when he or she is exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more other persons, and he or she has difficulty defending himself or herself. Because of bullying, more and more students are afraid to go to school. According to the 2009 Your Risk Behavior Surveillance System(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), up to 20% of high school students were bullied in United States.The 2008-2009 School Crime Supplement shows that 28% of students in grade 6-12 were victims of bullying in the United States (Bullying Definition 1/2). This paper will present recent information on bullying among teenagers and preteenagers, with reference to t ypes, roles, impacts and actions. First of all, bullying nookie be categorize by the shipway of bullying or the reasons for bullying. Bullying is however categorized as verbal bullying, favorable bullying, physical bullying and cyber bullying by the ways of bullying. Verbal bullying is an aggressive behavior by means of derogatory languages.It includes bad-name-calling, ridicule, slanderous comments and bruiting deceitful rumors. Social bullying is a rousing social action used by people who bully others. It includes social separation, ignoring somebody and setting others up to look stupid. Physical bullying is an unadorned aggressive action used to force person to do some matter he or she unwilling to do. It includes kicking, hitting, spitting, shoving and stealing others money or damaging souls be acheings. Cyber bullying is in any case cognise as electronic bullying. It dope be verbal or visual.Provocative calls, annoying messages or emails, threatening cyberspace s ite, or showing someone horrible pictures or videos is considered as cyber bullying (What is Bullying? 1/3). Tyler Clementi, an eighteen- year-old university student from Piscataway, New Jersey, jumped from the George Washington Bridge because his roomy who used webcam to view he was kissing another man and stick on the video on the profits without letting him know (Allen 2/4). It is estimated that more than 33% of young student live experienced cyber threats online (Cyber Bullying Statistic).Despite the ways of bullying, bullying is classified into racial bullying, religious bullying, fellowshipable bullying and stultification bullying by the reasons for bullying. Racial bullying is too called ethnic bullying. It is an aggressive behavior that some people treating someone badly because he or she does not have the same racial cultures or background as the people who bully do. Making fun with someones racial culture, calling their racist names, or commenting their racial bac kgrounds badly belongs to racial bullying. religious bullying is very similar to racial bullying.Someone is bullied because his or her religious notion or background is different or special. Bullying through heavy something unfavorable about a religious belief or background, abusing someone base on his or her religious belief or background, or laughing at someone because of his or her religious belief or background is religious bullying. Not only race and religion, but also sex is another reason for bullying. Sexual bullying is a bullying behavior that using peoples sexuality or sexual activity as a weapon by males or females to hurt other males or females. It can be physical or non-physical.Sexual bullying includes treating someone badly because of his or her gender, playing jokes or making rough comment about someones sexual behavior, or saying someone a homosexuality. Johnny Cagno, a middle-school student in Rhode Island, had experienced sexual bullying for a long time. His cl assmates kept saying that he was gay because his hobby is different. As Johnnys mother said I felt like everyday I was sending him off to struggle (Bullying Words Can Kill). The last reason for bullying is disability. Disability bullying is that someone is treating badly because he or she is disabled.People ordinarily bully cripples by making fun of their disability, laughing at them because they are disabled (What is Bullying 1/3). In addition to know about types of bullying, the roles of bullying are also necessary for students, parent and school to net attention to. In bullying action, people can be classified into three groups by their actions. The first group is the bully. It includes bullying attractor, followers or henchmen, supporters or still bullies and passive supporters or possible bullies. The bullying leader is the one who starts bullying and leads other students to bully someone else.The followers or henchmen are the students who like to bully others and follow t he bullying leader, but they are not the first one to bully. The supporters or passive bullies like bullying but do not discipline part in it. They ordinarily enjoy watching and make people pay attention to the bullying. The passive supporters or possible bullies are students who like bullying, but they do not show their feeling of bullying to anyone. The second group is bystander. They are known as disengaged onlookers. They do not take any side of bullying. They do not like or hate it.They just watch and think the bullying is none of their business. The last group of bullying is the defender. The possible defenders are the students who hate bullying. They want to help the victims of bullying. However, they did not take any action. The defenders are the students who dislike bullying and try to do something which can help the students who are bullied (What is Bullying 2/3). Despite the roles of bullying, bullying has wide-ranging negative effect on the students who are bullied, s tudents who bully, students who observe bullying, and schools.Because of bullying, the victims of bullying become depressed, lose self- instinct and have health problems. Their grades also start to fall down. The worst thing is some of them attempt suicide. Johnny tried to kill himself by over taking cool pills. Fortunately, his was rushed to the hospital in time (Bullying Words Can Kill). Despite the damages of the bullying victims, the bullies ordinarily have more troubles than other students. They iron out frequently, steal others belongs, and drink alcohol and smoke. They usually have low grades at school. They can creative a negative climate at school.Some of them may process weapons to school. According to a recent statistics from 2010, one out of every 20 students has seen someone bring a gun at school (Bullying Statistics). The witnesses of bullying will think school is a danger aim. They have a feeling of fear when they see bullying. They are too stir to help the vict ims of bullying and feel guilty for their actions. The bullies try to tempt them take part in bullying. By the effects of bullying, the climate of school becomes negative. If the school does not take any effective action, it will be not safe for the students anymore.Students may think that teachers and school administrations do not allot about them and do not try to protect them from bullying. Then, students cannot study nearly in this environment. They are worried about their safety and feel insecure at school (What is Bullying 3/3). Bullying seems difficult to be stopped. However, with the help of students, parents and school, it can decrease or be stopped. First of all, the students should reputation bullying to teachers or their parents as soon as possible. The students who are bullied can share their experience with other students.They can perform it as a play to let more students know about bullying. They can formulate as an anti-bullying group to talk about how to stop bu llying, and help school develop protect principle and rules. In addition to stop bullying, parents also play important roles in it. They can communicate with their children and use their knowledge and experience to help their children. They can meet school administrators and give suggestions to school. The best way is parents volunteer in the bullying prevention at school. By volunteering with their children, parent can give a lot of courage to their children to fight bullying.John, Ryans father, tried his best to lead the Vermont Bully Prevention visor became a law (ACT117) in a short time afterward Ryans death (About Us). Beside students and parents, school also has debt instrument for fillet bullying. School staff can create policies about stopping bullying and set up a special department to hoi polloi with bullying problems. School also can post anti-bullying messages around school area. Holding meetings for students, parents and teachers talk about bullying, school can inf orm the parent how the bullying prevention going (Engage Parents & Youth).As has been demonstrated above, bullying among teenagers and preteenagers is an unavoidable problem which may lead its victims to committed suicide. In addition, bullying does not only affect on its victims but also has deep impact of bullies, observers and school. Indeed bullying can be categorized by why students bully or how students bully, and students play different roles in it. Therefore, students, parents and school try to work together in order to prevent students from organism hurt by bullying.As Ryan committed suicide after a long time had been bullied, his father said if we only knew, if he only told us (If We Only Knew 1/3). People feel sorry about the students who are bullied. Those students do not know how to deal with bullying. They are lack of self-protect consciousness and afraid to tell other people. The school and parents should give more information to them and teach them how to flight agai nst bullying. The government should also have set up a law to protect students from being bullying and punish the bullies. allows make the school to be a happy place again.Works Cited About Us. Ryans Story. Ryans Story insertion LTD, 2010. Web. 17 skirt 2012. Allen, Jane. Rutgers Suicide Internet Humiliation Trauma for Teen. ABCNews. ABC News Internet Ventures. Yahoo -ABC News Network, 30 September 2010. Web. 10 expose 2012. Bullying Definition. stopbullying. gov. U. S. Department of Health & Services, 2010. Web. 27 March 2012. Bullying Facts. Prevnet Promoting Relationships and Elimination Violence. PREVNet, 2011. Web. 28 February 2012. Bullying Statistics. Bullying Statistics. 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