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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 3 2006, 05:34 PM (429 Views) | |
| Amaranth | Oct 3 2006, 05:34 PM Post #1 |
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The Lukewarm
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(Note: This is not related to any shooting which took place recently in the Amish school, or the incident in Colorado and Wisconsin) What do you think of bullying/violent behaviour at schools these days? Do you think anything is being done to stop it? I, personally, don't get bullied but I witness enough people getting bullied most days at school. It's rather shocking how low some people can be, just to inflict pain (mental or physical) upon someone just because they are different or because they don't like them. It happens a lot when you're not in the "in" crowd. Goths get a lot of the hassle, as do anyone who likes rock music. I don't think enough is done about it. They get told off every now and then but we know from experience that getting told off does nothing to them. It doesn't bother them, in fact, they laugh it off. They love the attention they're getting. I keep saying "They", I'm refering to the people who are picking on others. I don't think there's any label for them (well, bullies). What do you think? |
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| darkmoonlitdreamer | Oct 7 2006, 02:01 PM Post #2 |
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Cleris fans make me happy!
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I've been bullied on a lot, and couldn't agree with you more. A lot of people in my school don't like me at all, but honestly, I couldn't care less. I'm so used to it that as long as my friends have got my back I'm fine. I just look that them when they glare at me, and counterattack with a blank stare and an evil voice, saying, "Stop staring at me, it's rude. If you want to stare at something so much, go to the #*@$%'ing museum..." |
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| Inuyatta | Oct 7 2006, 06:48 PM Post #3 |
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Cloud/Aerith Realist
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I didn't get bullied a lot because...well, my reputation preceeded me from elementary and jr. high...but also, when I became an office aid and became friends with the security team, I usually used the threat of the security team to break up fights. Abusive of my priveleges, much? XD Hey, at least I used my powers for good. |
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| goddess_in_pink07 | Oct 8 2006, 12:01 AM Post #4 |
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Ambrosia
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Well, I never have a problem with getting picked on, because I'm not really the type to get teased...I mean, I just never have a problem with it, and if someone does happen to push me a bit, I just ignore it. :) It doesn't bother me at all. I just blow it off, because what negative things people say about me isn't true. But, people do get unfairly bullied... my brother has the same problem at school....Someone hits him everyday at school, physically. He's a very political person, who loves to debate, and would rather quietly sit at home and do his homework, than go to a party and skip out. He's afraid to show his true self at school in fear of getting teased.... which I understand. He likes to talk to me about the drama at school, and I try to help him. Just a few days ago, people were calling him "gay" and, they truely meant it. He really didn't understand, because he acts nothing like that at all. I told him to just shake it off, but he really took that comment hard... Kids these days just pick on people for simply being themselves. From what music they listen to, or from how they dress. (BTW, Scott its actually quite different here. Most people get picked on for listening to depressing, emo songs. Rock is the thing here.) Sadly, its something we can't really prevent. Its just life. We have to deal with it one way or another. |
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| Sadhana | Oct 8 2006, 02:55 AM Post #5 |
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capitalism is dead
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I haven't seen any real school violence, physical or otherwise, since my freshman year (age 14). Perhaps it's just my school or perhaps it's growing up. In my grade, people don't get picked on anymore. Sure, people fight on occasion, but there's never any of that typical "bullying" stuff. When people fight, they yell at each other, talk it out, and make up. It's never anything like, "Let's all gang up on so and so." It's just the kind of argument you get into with people when you're mad at each other for whatever reason. But since that occurs outside of school, in every facet of the world, I don't consider it school violence. By this year, everyone in my grade is pretty much accepted. We all know one another, are friends with one another, and accept one another. There aren't any rigid cliques, and everyone talks openly. Even the people that were considered losers back in middle school are accepted now. It's great. But since I have witnessed and been victim to school violence in the past, I won't ignore its existance. It's absolutely pathetic of kids to gang up on each other the way they do. There's not much schools can do about it-- from my experience, interference from higher powers such as the guidance department only serves to make matters worse. Children just need time to grow up, and become comfortable in their own skins. Once that's achieved, I think the psychological need to tease others in order to feel better about yourself kind of withers away. |
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| Skelly | Oct 8 2006, 08:29 AM Post #6 |
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a strange angel
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Hmm. In my school, it's rather common for us to pick on each other - I've seen it ever since I've transfered, which was since grade six. And it starts rather young - children usually get isolated or bullied during grade three or four or around that age. We rarely have any fist fights though, but I think the bullying goes deeper. People don't say comments to each other's faces, but we distance ourselves from people we find "weird" or "freakish". And there's a lot of backstabbing and backtalking going around - much worse than an actual face-to-face confrontation in my opinion. I've never been a victim of such a thing, but I've seen it - I still do, and I'm a bit ashamed to admit that I do it sometimes, especially when I'm angry. And I know my batchmates; only a few people actually bully because they're unsure of themselves and their place with their friends. It's more like everyone here is bored and they need someone to be like a clown to make them laugh. Which is much more sick and twisted, in my opinion again. |
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| darkmoonlitdreamer | Oct 8 2006, 02:50 PM Post #7 |
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Cleris fans make me happy!
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The thing is people are steriotypical. They can just glance at something and dub stupid, ugly, pretty, etc, and not even take the time to truly observe it. Our society is shallow that way. No one bothers to get to know someone anymore, actually most people never did in the first place. When I got bullied in middle school, people said I was ugly and found out when I was asked out by someone that I really liked, it was only because of a bet for 10 dollars. The bet was that if he asked out the ugliest girl in school and she said yes he would get the $10. And that girl was me... -_- I've only had, like, ONE nice bf. The one I'm with right now. *sigh* It's just really hurtful to get used like that, you know? It's like, "Thank you so much world. Once again you have proved my exsistence is destined to be a miserable one...." ...It's people like that, that make you seem worthless. I felt so easily cast aside, and people just don't understand how much one act like that can change or severely affect a person and how they act. |
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| Trisse | Oct 9 2006, 09:45 AM Post #8 |
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I have been a victim and witnessed bullying in Primary. I was mostly verbally abused by my peers (by girls) the real reasons as to why they picked on me is still unknown to this day. I have no resentment towards them (my bullies) but i do want answers! hehehe! but i thank them. They have shaped and moulded me in becoming the strong and wise person i am today. :)In saying that I do feel bullying is an issue everywhere, fortunately for me i did not witness any form bullying in HIGHSCHOOL!!! I am not saying that bullying was absent altogather in highschool, there might have been some bullying and all but i did not see that first hand. In other highschools yeah, but not where i was at. I dont know what else to say, only that bullying is present in every school, no matter what year level. And if a school tells you otherwise (like 'there is no bullying at our school') then they obviously dont know their children, because bullying is everywhere. |
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| Maiden | Oct 9 2006, 01:03 PM Post #9 |
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I only got bullyed on once and that was in 5th Grade and he got it lmao he never did it again, <_< but anyways. I think violence should be stopped cause if you realize, we have more Dress Code Rules and Drug rules, but just a page of School Violence Rules. We had two school gangs start something at my school and the school told them to stop, and the boys looked and said there was no school rule about it. And it's the truth, my school (back before I quit) had hardly no gang violence/School shootings ect. And my school always wonders about it. :rollseye:
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| Skelly | Oct 9 2006, 01:08 PM Post #10 |
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a strange angel
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It's so weird. From what I'm seeing, most of the bullying I see starting from you guys stops at high school - for us, it grows much worse. Goes to show me how different Filipino schools are. XD
Woah. Never noticed that before, which is weird considering how I despise some of the stupid dress code rules we have here. |
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| Maiden | Oct 9 2006, 01:13 PM Post #11 |
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We have a 10 paged essay in our Agenda's about School Dress Codes and Drug's, but when it comes to like school violence and stuff, we have nothing, but a page. :lol: and later the school doesen't know why we are have gangs come and shoot us all. It's cause we have no rules or anything on Bullying ect, the teacher's just let us die.
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| Angelic Blue | Oct 27 2006, 04:40 AM Post #12 |
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I only have one thing to say on the matter.... One day one of those kids is gonna run into a teacher who's an ex-Marine or something and get their face ripped off. Or......... Two kids will arrive to shoot up the same school and end up only shooting eachother. Oh the irony. |
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| Prince Roxas | Nov 7 2006, 04:03 PM Post #13 |
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Just a Nobody
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I have been a victim of bullying throughout my entire school years, though it died down during the last two. But like Scott, I love in Scotland and each country has its different terms. While America may do it for systems like music (Thanks GIP for providing this) and others I haven't heard, I don't really see much reason for it happening over here. I think the main concern is power or letting out your emotions through violence as its the only way you know how to do it. In Scotland, its been proven that most bullies act the way they are through troubled homelife or up bringing. This affects a child in many ways, and it usually ends up with them not being able to control their emotions and finding no other way but to take it out on those more fortunate. Did I have reasons for being picked on? No, not really, because I was a quiet boy, I didn't have a lot of friends, actually my main bullying problem picked up when I moved house and school. And all of my bulliers fell into this category, from the way they acted and the clothes that they wore (it may sound evil but I had also seen the homes that they lived in, neighbour hoods and all). Its quite ironic that my bullier in my second year of High School turned out to be my best friend in my Senior years (5th and 6th). I actually thank them, because I am a much stronger person now, and there's no way I would take their crap because I also know the way to get them to leave you alone now. Uh, I don't know if my point got across, but its the fact that I think bullies come from those kids who don't know how to control their emotions and bring it out in different ways, in this case physical or mental violence. |
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he never did it again, <_< but anyways. I think violence should be stopped cause if you realize, we have more Dress Code Rules and Drug rules, but just a page of School Violence Rules. We had two school gangs start something at my school and the school told them to stop, and the boys looked and said there was no school rule about it. And it's the truth, my school (back before I quit) had hardly no gang violence/School shootings ect. And my school always wonders about it. :rollseye:
Goes to show me how different Filipino schools are. XD

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