Bullying the Cause and Effect

Bullying and its effects on people

Did you know that "according to the i-Safe American survey of students bullying statistics, about 58 percent of kids admit to never telling an adult when they've been the victim of a bullying attack?" this was from the bullying statistics website. That is more than half of the kids that get bullied, who do not tell a soul what is happening to them.


In the New York Times an editor wrote about  Sticks and Stones a book written by Emily Bazelon who writes about characters that were bullied and how looking at bullying in a different context might help. John Schwartz the editor who wrote about Bazelon's book states this " In those days before bullying made national headlines getting knocked around was a part of growing up; the psychic toll went largely unnoticed. No state had laws on the books that “clearly addressed bullying,” she writes, until the shootings at Columbine High School." This says so much right here, at one time what we consider "bullying" now was not during that time. It shouldn't have to take a a tragic event for awareness of bullying to become an important topic. This is another reason why bullying has stayed and actually increased in being an important topic to be talked about. Suicides, school shootings, bullycide, etc. are the many reasons for why bullying is still high up in the important issues in this society.

Interviews

Kari Ludy a senior and I had a conversation about bullying and her opinion on it. In Ludy's interview she talks a little bit about cyber bullying and how that has become more popular. There's an actual movie out called Cyberbully and here's a little scene from it where the main character is being bullied  and thinks of actually trying to harm herself. There are multiple types of bullying; cyber is being said to be in the rise and becoming more popular. Cyber bullying could happen while students are at school, home or through texting as well.

Anissa Hawkins, a sophomore,and I had a conversation about bullying as well but the twist is that she in her past was bullied. Hawkins also talks about how even though people may say they believe should stand up for others that person seems to always wait until someone else does.


The link is a video of Levi Myers on bullying, he is an education major and thought it would be interesting to see his view on bullying. He has to observe for an education requirement and he says in the interview how he sees the bullying already starting at a young age.

bullying doesn't just effect kids, and teens but adults as well this is why awareness needs to be promoted more. Also more needs to be done when a person is being bullied. Suicides and school shootings the majority of the time are caused by the effect of those people being bullied.

Studies use to show how bullying affected children during their childhood but "Now researchers have found that elevated risk of psychiatric trouble extends into adulthood, sometimes even a decade after the intimidation has ended." This is stating that being bullied at a young age can still have a major affect on a person during adulthood as well. Another interesting fact is that most of the time a bully was before becoming one was bullied.

Videos of bullying 

The next few videos are of Emily O'Donnell bullying Victoria Brito in the library. One of the reasons we did this was to see by having someone bullied in a public area to see if anyone would try to interject or try to stop it at all.
Emily and Tori in the library  This video shows O'Donnell throwing papers at Brito while she reads and also calls her a loser.
Emily knocks Tori's book off desk in this video, this is just another sign of bullying while in a public place to see if there would be any reaction.
                                                                                                                                                                      



The  photo below is of O'Donnell taking the chair out from under Brito as she is about to sit done trying to get her to fall on the ground in the library

Emily taking chair from Tori as she sits down.

These videos are taking place in public areas on purpose to whether students or even faculty would try to interject if they had saw some sort of bullying happen. As we looked around we saw that some people stopped what they did and watched what was happening but never got up or tried to say anything.

After Brito had gone through all the bullying from O'Donnell I interviewed her to see what her opinion was on for the people's reactions to the events that just occurred. Her ideas for how to get more awareness around the community and campus are great ideas.

Just by looking on YouTube there are numerous videos of people talking about being bullied, self harm, and possible suicides. People's voices need to be heard so people can understand bullying is not something that is good for anyone. So with this whole project i am just trying to talk and bring up the issues and the effects bullying has on people. From kids to adults the effect is all the same, people get hurt by it. This video is about a girl who committed suicide because she was bullied by schoolmates for a long time. This is just one of the various videos all over the web on bullying self harm and suicides.
There's another video that is of Amanda Todd a girl who was bullied even after she moved place to place and it ended in her taking her own life. This all started from being bullied, people need to be aware that one small comment about a person could really have an effect on them.  Here's a little video on Hannah who went through some bullying and depression but got help and started to open up. Since she finally opened up she turned her life round. This is a good video on how people can see they are not allow and how opening up could change things for the better.

The effect that the school shootings and the recent involvement of students getting into fights while at school as well. Videos of teens and young kids fight while at school seem to be getting more and more popular. This is not the entertainment that should be going viral. This is not what people should be watching to watch, it's sad that some of the top videos on YouTube are school shootings, and fights while in school. This is why i believe bullying, school shootings, violence it all needs to silenced and given awareness.

Many people believe we need to have more bullying awareness, but it's hard people to stand up and say anything if they never see anyone stick up for them. This is mentioned in Anissa's interview on how people want to make a difference but they wait for others to do so instead of doing it themselves. Bullying may never fully end unless everyone is willing to help and stand up for one another. But until that day comes hopefully this blog can help others stand up for themselves and other as well.
There are website out there also for teens and kids who may want to get help but after scared to reach out. Kids Help Phone is a website where kid and teens who feel like they need help can go if being bullies or abused or even both.