When I was coming through school bullying was a usual thing in my life and a very unpleasant experience. I was picked on throughout my elementary years to my first year in High school. It seemed like they would start picking on me for no reason, maybe out of bored who knows. No matter how nice I was to them they would always have something mean to say to me or start picking apart how I looked and dressed. Sometimes they would push me around or slap me in the back of the head. Nothing was ever really done about it. I would say something to the teacher and the group of kids that picked on me would lie. It was my word against theirs. It was an experience that no child should have to go through.
It is interesting to note that bullies can be created by having bad role models in their lives that give them an unhealthy example of interacting with others. Children pay close attention to how adults around them act, especially if the adult is very close to them. With this said lack of knowledge and bad environment, which are your bad role models, help make bullies (Healy, 2010). So maybe the schools are not the only factors in the bullying problem. But if that’s the case the school system needs to step it up a notch to help promote a healthy environment and role models.
Bullying is becoming a serious and common problem in schools with the growing suicides in younger children. In Psychology Today states that “Bullying is a “warning sign” that a school system is sick” (Healy, 2010). I have to say I’ve never thought about the school being the problem, but the more I think about it, that could possibly be a factor in the issue. But the school system is not the only factors. The way the child is being raised and the environment they are in are other contributors to the problem.
Healy M., (2010, October 19) School bullying. Psychologytoday.com. Retrieved February 13, 2011, from the World Wide Web: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/creative-development/201010/school-bullying
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