Creative Tension

We should really define who are the main contributors of bullying in this school. Once we know who the enemy is, we can attack!

Call the bully’s parents

I think the students know very well what they shoul or should not do.

Bullying is something that, people need to work on ignoring as much as possible. Negatively responding to bullying just ignites the fire even more.

We have to encourage students to stand up for themselves and others.

Hi,
I believe that the school needs to have a good teacher – student relationship so that victims and bystanders can report bullying. Also, a school needs to make clear to the students that bullying is not right, it’s them that have the authority to do the right thing.

I think the problem is not on the “we” but on each individual. We are going to be with the same people for the rest of our high school, and each of us should have their limits and know when is enough.

I believe that to tip the balance we should raise awarenes about how bullying affects people in a bad way.

Ridiculous this bully story… Bully happens more often than it should in our graded comunity which worsens our daily life by seeing our colegues depressed. Most of the bullying is done trough facebook even though it is bad I do not support the idea that the school should interfere with the students outside of the school campus by any means

Get to the root of the problem: confront the bully. Someone in a position of power should face this person.
The people being bullied need to know that there is nothing wrong with them, there is something very wrong with the world we live in. They need to know (and bystanders need to know too) that they are in a community that will support them and stand behind them if they ever chose to speak up (which they should).

I don’t think people are aware of how bullying can turn into something serious, people can even be bullied to death. Unfourtunetely bullying has no solution, I don’t believe there is a way that bullying can totally end, but letting others know of how serious it can get may help a little.

I think that defining EXACTLY what bullying is – a constant attack towards a particular victim (please, emphasis on the keyword CONSTANT- would help people that are so confused about bullying.

There’s this great movie called The Breakfast Club, maybe showing it to our high school would be a good idea. The kind of bullying that happens in highschool (that isn’t EXACTLY bullying, bullying normally only happens in middle school) is alienation and segregation. Everyone has their own cliques and stereotypes of others. The Breakfast Club is all about getting out of your comfort zone, breaking stereotypes and forgetting about the stupid “cliques” we made up. It’s a great and powerful movie, and if you think language may be a concern: my sister first watched this movie at school. Just sayin’. It’s a great movie and I think that we could learn a lot from it, standing up to others, and breaking out from this idea of stereotypes and cliques.

I think we have watched bully in the media so much, it is like falling in love: portrayed in an exaggerated version to make it more interesting. But in reality bullying does not happen that way; with a jock pushing a nerd against a locker or a queen bee putting the new girl down and staring down at her contemptuously. In real life bullying is a lot more subtle. A comment that is negative but shielded by a laugh and a friendly “just kidding”can hurt a person for life.

What about starting a zero tolerance schoolwide program against any form of aggressiveness or intimidation? including those apparently friendly pokes, gossiping, teasing or any inappropriate remarks. We are all responsible of what happens in our community so let’s take away the peer attention and support that bullies need to keep going.