School bullying occurs in every area of society. Students experience harmful effects when they experience emotional and physical abuse. Society must take active steps to end this ongoing injustice against students and help schoolyard bullies understand the effects of their actions. One in ten students is a victim of bullying at some point in their educational process (Will 1). The FBI's National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime noted that student victimization occurs most often in public schools (Will 2). Victims of bullying suffer emotional distress and often have difficulty making friends (J Love 346). Distressed victims will have problems in the workplace and in their future families if bullying remains strong in schools. School bullies can demonstrate their “power” in several ways. School bullies may mock peers, spread vicious rumors, play cruel pranks, or use physical force to assure their target that they are in charge (J Love 346). Furthermore, cyberbullying is a growing trend in this technologically advanced society (J Love 346). Children often have unsupervised access to sites like Facebook and Twitter. These sites make it easy for school bullies to discriminate against other peers. Solutions to help put an end to school bullying need to be carefully thought out by all school authority figures. One approach attempted by many schools is called the systematic approach. This approach includes rigorous enforcement specific to school bullying (Will 3). School authority figures are responsible for enforcing the rules in this system. In this way the school bully is directly identified as responsible for the violence in the classroom. While this approach is well intentioned, it does not address the root of the problem. Authority figures cannot understand why a school is being bullied (Will 3). Adopting intervention measures by school authorities is another idea to help prevent school bullying. Schools could start placing cameras on buses to capture acts of aggression by school bullies. Additionally, school officials can search lockers for evidence of bullying and can hire security guards (Will 3). These measures often violate children's sense of privacy. While this measure is well intentioned, it can have unexpected results. Many children therefore feel the need to rebel when they feel their privacy is being invaded; this method can cause more harm than good.
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