Bullying in schools (Bullying in Schools)

Member Name: rossmoorlock

Product:	Bullying in Schools
Date:	20/03/01 (209 review reads)
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Disadvantages: Children’s lives are made hell

Whatever anybody says, bullying is something that is always going to be in schools. Although quite a lot of schools now have anti bullying programmes it still goes on, and no matter what any body tries to do about it, it will still carry on.
In the ideal world, bullying would not exist but in our world today thousands of children suffer every day because of these bullies.
When I was at school most of the bullies were the people that were popular and they just said things to try and impress their friends.


When I was younger I was never really bullied, but I think that every child has little comments made about the clothes that they wear or about their family. Lots of people used to say to me "Your mums fat" and " I take it your mums diet isn't working". At first I used to take it very personally as obviously I loved my mum and I didn't want anybody to say anything bad about her. But in the end I realised that it is more important about what I think and not about what other people say to try and wind me up.


As a child there is always a lot of peer pressure. You always have to have the right clothes on and the right trainers on, or else you will have the Mick taken out of you. When I was young I always had sensible footwear like Clarks shoes. Not really by choice but because they would do a good job and would last a long time. I always received a few comments from other people but it didn't really bother me that much at first.


After a long time of people making comments towards you it starts to hurt inside and makes you really want to cry. The sad thing is that you know that if you cry the bully will have succeeded and then will probably laugh at you even more.
At a young age the pressures of wearing the right clothes is incredible. If you turned up to school wearing a hi-Tec or gola shirt people would be laughing and taking the Mick out of you all day.

I had the mick taken out of me a lot because when I
was at school I took Food Technology. I was quite a popular member of my year and being male I therefore had the piss taken out of me for quite a long time. Thankfully I took the subject with one of my male friends so it didn't work out too badly, but it is just little things like that, that lead to bullying.

My parents were quite strict and you might say a little bit posh too. When I was young I had a side parting forced apon me in my hair. This was not the 'in' thing to do and I was called a lot of names about that. In the end my parents cracked and allowed me to do what I wanted, but by then I had taken a lot of stick.


Lack of money in a family is the cause of quite a lot of bullying. If I child turns up to school in scruffy dirty clothes then they will have the Mick taken out of them, even if it is not really the child’s fault. The bully will quickly start calling them names and most of the time other people will soon join in. Bullies always seem to bully people about really personal things. It could be about appearance, or the way somebody talks. I was always called posh because I said words like grass, bath and past in a different way to everybody else. My mum had a word with my teacher about it and my teacher told the whole class about how some people from different parts of England will say words differently and after that I didn't get as many comment.



There are a few different types of bullying. There is verbal which is generally name calling and making nasty comments. This can somes times be worse then physical which is obviously people hitting you or making some kind of physical contact with you.

At my old school there were certain people that always started off the bullying. They always seemed to be very tall and a lot stronger then everybody else. These were the people that did all the physical bullying. I found that the people that went around calling people names were generally quite intellige
nt people. They did it because they could afford all the good clothes and were clever and could easily think of things to say and things to bully people about as they considered themselves to be pretty much perfect.


When I was at school I remember there was this little boy called Peter. He was only small and had very white hair and his teeth were pretty messed up so he had a bit of a lisp too. So many people took the Mick out of him just because of this, even though they didn't even know him or know anything about him. At first Peter didn't really show any emotion, but after it had been going on for a while he started to get angry and upset. He was letting the bullies know that they were getting to him. This just made it worse. More people joined in and there was nothing that Peter could do about it. He knew that if he told the teacher he would have received more stick.
In this kind of case there really needs to be somebody that a child can talk to in private. I know that in some schools there are bullying councillors but I don't know if these are any good.


In my class at school there was this kid called Daniel. He had admitted to the class that he had worms. At first nobody was really sure what to think, but after a few days people starting jumping to conclusions. Everybody thought that if they went near him they would catch it too. If I was being totally honest with you folks I have to admit that I was a part of this and I thought that too. I personally didn't want to go near him just because the thought of it really made me want to be sick. Daniel had to put up with comments for weeks and weeks, which really upset him. He ended up to scared to come to school because of what people might say to him. In the end his mum told a teacher at the school and everybody was spoken to. The fact that he had told on everybody made it worse really. Nobody wanted anything to do withhim because he was a 'snitch'. He was given more stick then he wa
s receiving before.


The problem for a person that is being bullied is that there is no way that they can get away from all of the comments. They can’t spend their whole lives hiding so in some cases they just take it. There has to be some system that is set up by all schools where a child that is getting bullied feels that there is a way out and somebody there to talk to. There has to be a lot of secrecy involved in this and every conversation that a councillor has to be kept private.
In my school I remember when a girl went and spoke to a teacher about what was going on and then the teacher discussed to us about what had been said in front of this girl. I felt that this was not right but there was nothing that I could do about it.


There have been a few cases of bullying that I will probably remember for the rest of my life. When I was at school there were not that many fights going on for some reason, so whenever there was a fight everybody would gather round chanting 'fight fight fight'. Obviously this only encouraged the two people to fight even more. It was when the fight was over and you saw the two people walking away bleeding or still lying on the floor that you begin to feel kind of guilty for enjoying what you had just seen.


Bullying can make children’s lives misery. Going to school should be something that is enjoyable and not something that you are afraid of. There should really be stricter punishments for bullies. Nowadays in schools a bully will only get a harsh talking to or possibly some form of detention, where he will be kept inside at a lunch time or something like that. If this is the only punishment that a bully receives then it will not put them off. Maybe if everybody was made aware of the fact that it they were caught bullying they would be expelled then less of them would bully their class members in the first place.


Most head teachers of schools if asked the question, Do
you have any bullying going on in your school? Would say no every time. Not only because they don't want a bad reputation but because they just don’t know about what goes on. When I was at school bullying went on every day, but even a bully isn't stupid enough to call somebody a 'stupid thick fat ginger' in front of a teacher. So half of the time the teachers don’t know what is going on. This is because the children don't trust the teachers enough to tell them, and quite a lot of teachers aren't particularly approachable and don't seem very caring.
Something needs to be done about bullying and it needs to be done fast. It is stopping a lot of people from learning at school and obviously it is very important that every child is given the same opportunity of getting a good education.
The bullies need to be stopped but how?

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