Outline (Bullying in School)

TEAM: REBECA MONTOYA, GEORGINA ABURTO, ANA SERRATO, SAIDA RODRIGUEZ

Topic: Bully children at schools

Thesis statement:
Bullying in schools is believed to be a normal part of school life, however, when people begin to have this mentality, they forget that bullying is physically and psychologically harmful to both the bully and the victim. Therefore, bullying must be eradicated from schools by raising awareness and increasing supervision.

I. Introduction
A. Background
B. Recently there’s been much increased awareness of bullying in schools and whilst may appear that bullying is on increase
II. Causes of why children bully
A. Why do children show their frustration to weakness children?
1. A child is impaired in some way and is frustrated and resentful because the source of their difficulty has not been identified. Bullying in schools is a worldwide problem that can have negative consequences for the general school climate and for the right of students to learn in a safe environment without fear.
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2. The child is being bullied, so the responsible adults have repeatedly failed in their duty of care.
B. Abuse at home & a poor role model talks about the kind of relationship the children will have at school.
1. The child has no role model at home, or a poor role model for on or both parents and has never the opportunity to learn behavior skills. 2. The child is being abused and is expresing their anger through bullying.
III. Several children get harmed physically and psychologically because of bullying.
A. There continues to be a good deal of resistance to the view that bullying is harmful to the health of children. Some of the resistance comes from people who proudly assert that being bullied at school never did them any harm. http://www.ericdigests.org/1997-4/bullying.htm
B. Children tell us many things about bullying in schools.
1. Knowledge gained from children is important for two reasons. Firstly, although awareness of the sad consequences for children of continual bullying is certainly increasing, there is still on the part of some schools and some educational authorities a marked reluctance to acknowledge how serious it is; and secondly, if planned and effective action to stop school bullying is going to happen, we need to know what schoolchildren themselves are prepared to do to rid our schools of this persistent problem.
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IV. Characteristics or facts of bully children and reactions of their victims.
A. The major defining physical characteristic of victims is that they tend to be physically weaker than their peers--other physical characteristics such as weight, dress, or wearing eyeglasses do not appear to be significant factors that can be correlated with victimization.
http://www.ericdigests.org/1997-4/bullying.htm
1. Students who are victims of bullying are typically anxious, insecure, cautious, and suffer from low self-esteem, rarely defending themselves or retaliating when confronted by students who bully them. They may lack social skills and friends, and they are often socially isolated.
2. Students who engage in bullying behaviors seem to have a need to feel powerful and in control. They appear to derive satisfaction from inflicting injury and suffering on others, seem to have little empathy for their victims, and often defend their actions by saying that their victims provoked them in some way
B. Bullying at schools leaves several consequences in their victims.
1. As established by studies in Scandinavian countries, a strong correlation appears to exist between bullying other students during the school years and experiencing legal or criminal troubles as adults.
2. Victims often fear school and consider school to be an unsafe and unhappy place

V. Adults have the responsibility in their hands, they could make the difference between creating a bully or saving one.
A.I think it is important not to immediately blame individuals. and specially not teachers. The problem, as so often lies further up the management chain.
We all have collective responsibility and bullying is the result of a number of factors. I believe the way forward is to identify all the factors and especially the causes.