I believe that the current generation (my generation) is out of control. People lack in the manners department and it drives me crazy. Bullying is at an all time high! On average, 160,000 U.S. students stay home from school DAILY because of the fear of bullies. I want to try and set up something in my high school to prevent bullying, because I too have been bullied all my life, traumatizing me and depressing me to the point of hospitalization. It needs to stop! We can be the change, but please, if you believe there is a way to decrease bullying- share your ideas! I already have: Start an organization in our school, try to reach out to other schools in the area and teach them about bullying. Go straight to the main administration or school guidance counselors and attempt to set up an assembly including perhaps a skit, or something to get people's attention and aim to decrease bullying, maybe have a parent meeting with the district school board about it. How would you go about preventing bullying? Melanie, I completely respect your answer, but I simply do not agree. I know bullying will never be fully stopped, and that's my fault on bad wording, but I believe there are ways to discourage bullying. Maybe not stop it completely or much at all, but getting out the word and spreading compassion and love, I think that sometimes it gets to people- and let it be one person we discourage against bullying and they stop, that's still a difference. Thank you everyone for answering! Although I disagree with some of, you are all entitled to voice your opinion and speak your mind. :) I have taken some of your answers into consideration and I know that bullying will never be fully stopped. I have to agree with Ashley. She took a good example, racism. In a way racism and bullying go hand in hand. Sometimes bullying occurs because people are racists, and I feel bad for them and their ignorance.. Racism took decades, centuries, and so on to prevent, or at least decrease. To this day, there are still racists, but the amount has been greatly decreased. I believe the same thing can happen with bullying. I thought this was a good website: http://www.pacerteensagainstbullying.org/ Take a look at it, and next time when someone bullies you or you witness bullying take a stand. I can't force you and I'm not trying to force anyone to do anything, but just think about your actions (this includes adults as well) before acting on them.
Best reply by ChanceEncounter:
Reinstate corporeal punishment.
Read more replies Do you believe that bullying can be prevented or stopped? If so, how?
well if people bringing guns to school is not going to stop it nothing will
Have the bullies identified for counseling along with their parents or guardians. Encourage kids to not stand by if they see bullying.
put parents in jail for the actions of their children.
i would stand up to the bully
I’m not much for schools aka government handling children and bullies.
what’s wrong with society is that parents aren’t parenting their children. Everywhere I look I see kids bossing around their parents, and that’s where the problems originate.
encourage home values and strong families, that’s the best option in my opinion
i think that many people in this society have such a lack of compassion for others nowaday and it’s very sad to see. i got picked on myself and it’s not fun, but you know, i ignored it, and eventually it went away. if a kid is bullied they should stand up for themselves.
It is inevitable. As humans we are social creatures. All social structures require a hierarchy. While I don’t condone it or tolerate it, it cannot ever simply be stopped. It is up to the adults to moderate.
share stories of those who have been bullied or else share your story.Also you could put the bully on “Bully beatdown”.
It sucks but there is no possible way to stop bullying. There are always people who need to feel better about themselves. Just tell the kids being bullied that they will go farther in life then the bullies. Its comforting and true. Also, tell the kids being bullied to just ignore the bullies. The bullies want a reaction, if you don’t give it to them, they will stop. Good job with the organization. But the skit will have the bullies making fun of you guys even more, bad idea.
There are always going to be bullies, even into adulthood. If you want to do something about bullying, don’t try to get the bullies to stop what they’re doing, get together with other students and figure out how you can respond to bullies so they’ll be discouraged from bullying you.
Dealing with bullies is a skill that can be learned. Ask for that.
No and if you think an “organization” is going to stop kids from being kids then you deserve to have been picked on because you are obviously the most naive person in the world.
There is nothing anyone can do that will actually work, taking them out of classes and making them listen to sob stories just makes them stupider they should actually be learning math, reading in school not every ones little pet brainwashing project.I was a bully and I was bullied, it is part of life, if you are not strong enough to handle it or get over it natural selection will weed you out. You will never change survival of the fittest and natural selection, have as many money wasting studies as you want.
btw: if I had a child and someone was in the smallest way cruel to them, I would literally tear their face off and burn them alive. Most children unfortunatly have cowardly selfish parents who don’t care about them.
I believe so but it may take a long time. There is a lot of bullying go on. When it does stop there is always going to be a few people who still bully’s. It just like racism back then there were a lot of racists people. As years passed by people were taught not to be racists and eventually got better. Today there are barely any racists people but there is still racists out there. I think you should take the people who mostly bully others and take them into the school counsellor try to encourage them. You should go deeply into them to see why they are like that. Everyone bully’s for a reason whether they have something against them or something at home is happening.
unfortunatly, i dont believe it will stop, as some poeple seem to not understand anything different or better or worse than them so they pick on those people.
i feel i am polite i have a buggy and i stop to let people past never really get thanks may get an evil look, if im with my partner who is a big guy they say thanks which makes me feel people will only respect people they are scared of!
a little manners goes a long way, i feel happy if i help someone, and feel happy when people help me, im getting fed up with the way the world is, but i think its only getting worse.
you mean you want to start up a big gang to bully the bullies? you dont get you way, but you dont want the bully to have his way but your too weak to stop them????
Im just trying to consider what you are suggesting……you are essentially saying that teaching kids to tell tales is better that teaching them to deal with the problems that life throws at them or get eaten up…..is that what your saying???? Life should be fair and all that???
I know this sounds very odd, but I think many, many bullies actually need to be talked to and helped. Now, don’t get me wrong, some are just bit*chy school kids with no sense of manners, however, others are deeply troubled and confused about where to channel, aggression, hurt, and distress. I believe that expressing feelings and leading a healthy life should be the focus of an anti bully program instead of just teaching children/teens how to tell on each other. Of course it’s important to also make hotlines available as well as counselors for people who need to talk things out. But instead of calling it a bully hot line it should just be a help hot line. Many youngsters are afraid to tell and adult about the big bad bully because of the way society has come to see this action as wimpy. You know the saying “Don’t be a tattletale” Nobody at school likes tattletales and therefore kids don’t want to express their feelings. Remember it’s more difficult for them to realize the difference between expressing important feelings and simply being a “tattletale”. Basically I would prevent it by teaching how to express feelings (that it’s okay to do so!) and making help available to ALL who desire it.
Back years ago the way to deal with a bully was to give them a dig in the face, do that now and they’ll have everyone and their granny jumping you when you least expect it.
I think that schools need to be stricter and take action as soon as possible, rather than sitting back and waiting for things to get worse
Also it’s not always a bad idea for more kids and teens to know how to defend themselves anyway.
So much bullying now ends in terrible violence.
Yes.
If adults will grow up and actually try to prevent these things from happening instead of quietly watching like they are scared to intervene.
I’ve seen a kid get picked on while the teachers all just stand there and let it happen!
COWARDS!
http://www.tcmstornadoes.com/bullying.htm
compliance with Florida Statute 1006.147 on bullying and harassment
Maybe you need laws in place like we have.
observance of Florida Anti-Bullying Week
http://www.eckerdacademy.org/articles/how-to-identify-and-prevent-bullying.html
http://www.floridainjurylawyerblog.com/2009/08/preventing_personal_injuries_c.html
http://fasa.net/FBPI/
http://www.bullypolice.org/fl_law.html
This is how my state handles it.
I believe much of bullying could be prevented if we stopped modeling, reinforcing and tolerating that type of behavior. If your household is a place where the bigger people hit, take from and push around smaller people just because they can, your model is teaching your kids to be bullies. Taken in an adult context, bullying behavior could be seen as serious criminal offenses (assault, harassment, theft, robbery etc). But, for some reason, when children exhibit this behavior it’s tolerated as just kids being kids and, in some cases, it’s rewarded by parents who like seeing their children dominate other children. On a superficial level, we may say bullying is wrong, but on a deeper level, society strongly encourages it.
I think that the best way to prevent bullying is to help create self confidence in people from early childhood.Because if people had the confidence in them self they wouldn’t feel the need to bully other students.Because all bullys just pick on other people for the acceptance of peers and to make them feel better.And also the victims of bullying because if they had that confidence in themselves they wouldn’t become the victims of bullying.I know that because of experience and from studies.That children and teens with low self esteem are the ideal target for bully’s.
So all of this could be prevented by high self esteem.Also if the parents and authority figures in the school made the students feel confident they would resolve the issue.They should feel more confident to talk to them to get the help they need.Because I have seen myself teachers not take bullying as serious as it should have been.I’m sure if a lot more authority figures and parents did their job bullying wouldn’t be such a big issue.Anyway you sound like you’re doing a good job already.