Wednesday, October 2, 2013
12-year-old Girl Arrested for Bullying
While reading news articles, I came across this article about bullying. I thought that it was interesting that a pre-teen got arrested for constant bullying. I think that this can be a great article to share with students because it can open up conversation on the topic of bullying. This article can possibly show students the repercussions of bullying. Even though the article claims that all severe bullying cases can go under investigation, I believe that it is biased due to the fact that the school where this incident occurred was a private middle school. I am curious to see if this would to happen in a public low-income school would the same actions be taken?
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This is pretty amazing that such a severe case of bullying has occurred to result in an arrest. When I was growing up it was never severe enough to warrant such action. I liked your point on if it would be investigated at a low income school Ivan. I really don't think it would but I wouldn't put it on the government or the police for these lack of action. It seems to me even in low income the police would get involved but the culture of the community always seems to show no urge to protect kids from these acts. Often times I've noticed in my life that parents just look the other way and say it's part of growing up and they'll be stronger for it. That just creates a progression of the problem in raising more kids to have that same outlook when kids will one day get bullied under their watch. While I believe some bullying and teasing is part of life and makes people stronger there is still a line that should not be crossed. Parents and teachers need to step up to stop the problem before it becomes so severe that an arrest is needed.
ReplyDeleteNicholas Duback
I wonder about the arrest and if it is the best response a community can give to bullying. Bullying is a reflection of a culture that normalizes violence. If this bullying happened in this school, in this community, it's not just an individual problem (the girl) but the school's problem as well. Then again, we can say that the arrest is them taking responsibility. I just believe that arresting someone and putting them away without helping this person (especially if she is 12!) and without a dialogue/action to prevent this behavior and change the culture is not very useful.
ReplyDeleteNick: True.. bullying gets perpetuated by a belief that "kids are just being kids." But it doesn't just happen in low income communities. and yes, very well said, it is everyone's responsibility.
On Monday I was listening to several teachers talk about bullying and pranks people play. They were trying to set the line of what classifies bullying. I found it interesting that the different ages of the teachers played such a role in their classification of bullying. For me, as the youngest person in the conversation, I felt that much of what the older teachers called bullying was playful fun by the participants. This article obviously displayed the severe end of the spectrum but I think its the less harmful cases of bullying that are more difficult to identify and deal with.
ReplyDeleteBy Tim