Bullying has been a major issue throughout schools; it has especially affected elementary
and secondary schools. The country has begun to actively address the problem. Bullying should
not be a topic taken lightly, most people do not see the effects that bullying can cause. Bullying
can be either verbally, physically, intimidation, and cyber bullying, all having a major and
negative impact on the victim. Often the victims are scarred and traumatized and live in fear for
many years while the culprits proceed to bully other victims. Bullies often target those students
whom appear insecure, are categorized as “nerds” and do not have a big crowd of friends
surrounding them.
Generally students who become bullies often do it for the satisfaction of feeling they have
power or control over a person. It appears that the suffering and inflicting injury on others
derives them satisfaction. Studies have indicated that often bullies come from homes where
physical punishment is used. When witnessing this in your household children begin to think that
physical abuse is a form of solving your problem.
Victims of bullying are usually insecure, have low self esteem, and rarely defend
themselves when confronted by a bully. They also lack social skills, in most occasions don’t
have many friends, and are often isolated from other students. The major physical characteristic
of a victim is they tend to be weaker than the other students.
Bullying should be an issue that should be addressed by both schools and the parents.
Often in some cases schools neglect the effects of bullying and believe that it is just a phase of
growing up. They do not realize all of the effects bullying causes to the victim, in some cases the
victim is filled with fear and insecurity that they go as far as committing suicide because they do
not know how to handle the situation. Other times bullying also originates from the household,
children see their parents or a family member solve a problem through abuse either verbally or
physically and then have a mentality that the only solution to a problem is through abuse. This is
why bullying should be addressed by both schools and parents. Schools should implement more
consequences and not neglect the issue of bullying. Schools should provide help to those
students who have been a victim or a culprit. By doing this the issue of bullying would not be as
common on school grounds. The other half of the responsibility should be on parents. Parents
should be more careful on how they resolve conflicts and build an honesty relationship with their
child, so the child would be comfortable telling the parents any issues they are having. Also
parents should talk to their child about bullying and the consequences of it and explain to them
that bullying is not a form of entertainment or a way of gaining power over anyone.
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