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    Bullying takes many forms, including physical, verbal, emotional, and indirect bullying. It is a form of abuse that uses power and dominance over weaker individuals. Bullying most commonly occurs in schools and workplaces. In schools, bullying has led to serious consequences like violence, fights, and in some extreme cases, suicide. Children who are bullied experience both short and long-term effects on their emotional and academic well-being. Bullies tend to come from abusive family environments and lack warmth from parents. They bully others to gain a sense of control and power over victims. Victims are often insecure with low self-esteem. Anti-bullying laws and increased responsibility for teachers and administrators are needed to curb bullying

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    Bullying takes many forms, including physical, verbal, emotional, and indirect bullying. It is a form of abuse that uses power and dominance over weaker individuals. Bullying most commonly occurs in schools and workplaces. In schools, bullying has led to serious consequences like violence, fights, and in some extreme cases, suicide. Children who are bullied experience both short and long-term effects on their emotional and academic well-being. Bullies tend to come from abusive family environments and lack warmth from parents. They bully others to gain a sense of control and power over victims. Victims are often insecure with low self-esteem. Anti-bullying laws and increased responsibility for teachers and administrators are needed to curb bullying

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    Bullying takes many forms, including physical, verbal, emotional, and indirect bullying. It is a form of abuse that uses power and dominance over weaker individuals. Bullying most commonly occurs in schools and workplaces. In schools, bullying has led to serious consequences like violence, fights, and in some extreme cases, suicide. Children who are bullied experience both short and long-term effects on their emotional and academic well-being. Bullies tend to come from abusive family environments and lack warmth from parents. They bully others to gain a sense of control and power over victims. Victims are often insecure with low self-esteem. Anti-bullying laws and increased responsibility for teachers and administrators are needed to curb bullying

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    Bullying takes many forms, including physical, verbal, emotional, and indirect bullying. It is a form of abuse that uses power and dominance over weaker individuals. Bullying most commonly occurs in schools and workplaces. In schools, bullying has led to serious consequences like violence, fights, and in some extreme cases, suicide. Children who are bullied experience both short and long-term effects on their emotional and academic well-being. Bullies tend to come from abusive family environments and lack warmth from parents. They bully others to gain a sense of control and power over victims. Victims are often insecure with low self-esteem. Anti-bullying laws and increased responsibility for teachers and administrators are needed to curb bullying

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    Bullying is an issue that has been affecting many in the world today.

    It takes place in many


    forms some of which are direct and include physical harm on the victim. Verbal bullying involves
    name calling and insults or threats being directed at the victim and may also involve emotional
    bullying where the victim’s emotions are targeted by the bully. Other forms of bullying may be
    indirect where the harm is not caused by the person directly but it still ends up affecting the
    person.

    Bullying is termed as a form of abuse that uses power and dominance to those that are
    weaker and less powerful. Bullying has been taking place in various areas but it is
    mostly common in schools and workplaces. It exists in various social groups, social
    classes and is found all over the world. The behavior is usually repetitive and
    aggressive and it is based on the sole intention of hurting the victim. Bullies carry out
    the behavior to harm the other person as a way of gaining power over the other person.
    It is normally a behavior that is planned and purposeful.

    Bullying in schools has become very common and it has led to some very serious
    consequences. It has led to physical violence in forms of fight and in some extreme
    cases deaths by suicides. Cases have emerged of some forms of bullying in the schools
    that have led to some of these severe consequences. Children who are victims have
    had to live with short term and long term consequences of the behavior. Some of the
    other effects include poor performance in their studies, depression, bedwetting, being
    withdrawn, changing schools regularly and is some cases suicides among others
    (Norfolk, n.d). Over 7% of children especially in the 8th grade tend to stay at home
    once a month since they are bullied in schools (Banks, 1997). Reports have also shown
    that about 15% of students are bullied on a regular basis with some being initiated into
    the bullying practice. Direct bullying is more common among boys than with the girls.
    However, physical abuse in boys tends to reduce as they progress in age. The victims
    of bullying sometimes carry these effects such as depression and low self-esteem into
    their adulthood.

    Historical Overview
    Bullying in schools has been ongoing for a long time now and is experienced in very
    many areas of the school. It occurs in some specific areas in the school compound and
    environment which include the School Bus Park, hallways and bathrooms and even
    during recess (Banks, 1997). It normally consists of a group of bullies who like isolating
    a student and bullying them by teasing and taunting the student. Some of them
    pressure the student to perform various tasks that humiliate the student. Teachers and
    school administrators have also been known to perpetrate bullying in the schools. They
    target a particular student and humiliate or abuse the student aggressively.

    The causes of bullying arise from the social setting of the bullies. The bullies usually get
    the trait from the family setting or from experiences from home. Studies have shown
    that most bullies emerge from families that experience physical forms of punishment
    and where the families are undergoing some form of abuse. School bullies tend to lack
    warmth from their parents and they then strike back through bullying other children in
    order to handle their problems. They may also acquire the behavior by learning it from
    friends and peers (Banks, 1997).

    There are several characteristics that bullies have in common especially in the schools.
    Most of the students who feel the need to bully others are usually looking to gain control
    since they normally feel more powerful than their intended victims. They tend to get
    satisfied once they see their victims suffering and they do not feel empathetic at all
    towards the victims (Staffordshire, n.d). When defending themselves they sometimes
    use the reasons that the victim provoked them to bully them. Most bullies usually have
    high self-esteem and they rarely perform the bullying act since they feel bad for
    themselves. They are however antisocial, defiant and badly behaved. They tend to
    break rules and display a lot of arrogance and opposition in schools.

    Victims of bullies, on the other hand, are usually very insecure, cautious and they suffer
    from low self-esteem (Olweus, n.d). They rarely confront the bullies to defend
    themselves. They are insecure and anxious and may lack social skills needed to make
    friends. They tend to come from families where their parents are overprotective. The
    major characteristic that is found with victims of bullying is that they are weaker than the
    bullies and this makes it difficult for them to fight the bullies back.

    Conclusion

    Bullying is a serious issue that is affecting very many children in the schools and has
    been going on for a very long time now. There is the need to come up with a method
    that will help eliminate its existence especially the new form of bullying that has
    emerged that is the cyber bullying. Anti-bully laws can help eliminate this kind of bullying
    together with the other forms of bullying that have been in practice. Cyber bullying is
    hard to detect but its consequences can be very damaging as witnessed by the Phoebe
    Prince Case. The existence of such anti-bully laws like the one in Massachusetts can
    help deter the bullies from carrying it out due to the harsh measures that are taken
    against them once they are caught.

    The laws can also place more responsibility and give the teachers and school
    administrators more authority to stop the behavior and deal with the bullies. Need to ban
    bullying in schools, the law needed to be passed now. Parents can also be sensitized
    by the need to monitor the behavior of their children especially when they are using the
    internet. Many of the students have been reported to take part in some of the cyber
    crimes and as more and more students join and continue to use the internet and other
    technological devices, the cyberbullying may continue. It is therefore very important that
    laws are established especially in the U.S to help curb the behavior before it evolves
    further and becomes uncontrollable.

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