Introduction
Nowadays, a plethora of American schools face the issue of bullying, and the students who offend their peers and classmates are not controlled by any governmental organization. The harm that they cause to their teachers, students, and other school attendants is tremendous. Therefore, the following paper will discuss and cover the rate of school bullies’ legally unregulated actions, the detriment that they constantly cause to other children who surround them, and to the schools’ broken equipment.
Regulation by Law
As it was mentioned above, one of the most significant issues of today’s educational environment is that bullies in schools are not regulated by the country’s police departments, and their actions do not contradict the laws established by the American government. In my opinion, the aforementioned situation is impermissible because many people who work and attend different schools daily might be offended or harmed by some temperamental kids with no legal responsibilities. Moreover, I think that the federal government is obliged to impose penalties on such students in order to reduce the harm caused by them to other people to the minimum.
Evidence
However, there are multiple pieces of evidence that support the issue of uncontrollable bullying school movements in the United States of America. According to Evans, Fraser, and Cotter (2014), almost thirty percent of all children who attend their schools on a regular basis, are involved in bullying. Not only do they remain participants of this aggressive movement, but they are also likely to become victims of such students.
Besides many parents do not want their children to study in such an environment because the latter ones lose their concentration in their educational process and may be involved in bullying as well. Moreover, the statistics demonstrate that there is also a high rate of deaths and shootings in schools (Evans et al., 2014). The issue above is obliged to be considered and solved by American law because multiple cases of abuse, violence, and deaths cannot be disregarded.
Counterargument
Unfortunately, there are people who do not consider the issue of bullying and victimization in American schools crucial. Usually, such an audience supports this movement or might be involved in it. According to Reijntjes et al. (2013), those children who act like bullies or are very aggressive to their peers, have more leadership qualities and are likely to obtain a high social status, popularity, and authority in their future lives and careers.
Other people argue that bullying is nothing more than pubertal behavior because people change as they grow up and become more mature during their lives as adolescents. (Reijntjes et al., 2013). Therefore, there is a minor group of individuals and parents who do not support the implementation of strict control on bullying children in schools and neighborhoods in general. I would respond to such counterarguments by saying that the advantages above do not cover all possible disadvantages and the harm caused by these people to others.
Discussion
It would be proper to mention that bullies also cause harm to their auxiliaries and colleagues in their workplaces, which makes all people around them feel awkward and not confident. Usually, such cases in schools or offices are regulated by teachers, educators, or bosses. Nevertheless, such discourses are usually disregarded by bullies because they have their personal set of mind, which is tough to change.
However, if this issue was addressed by the government and established in the federal law, the bullies would be obliged to obey it. Otherwise, they might receive severe punishments, or specific fines might be imposed on them as well. In my opinion, it would be proper to compel bullies to compensate for all the harm that was caused by them to other people. For instance, they might cover all the expenditures for the medical treatment of the abused person, or they might fix some interior parts that they broke.
Moreover, there are many other illegal actions that bullies experience and remain with impunity. For instance, it is estimated that almost ninety-five percent of bullies are drug-addicted. Besides, the majority of such students and people in the United States of America are always armed due to their criminal lives (Valdebenito, Ttofi, Eisner, & Gaffney, 2017). According to Ttofi, Farrington, Lösel, Crago, and Theodorakis (2016), the majority of children with bad behavior are likely to become drug addicted in the future, which is also essential to be regulated by the country’s law.
Conclusion
As the government of the United States of America is intended to protect the country’s citizens’ rights and freedoms, the bullying in schools and workplaces should be regulated by the official law because this situation is getting out of control. Those who damage the schools’ properties, offend or abuse their colleagues, peers, and schoolmates are obliged to receive penalties and punishments to compensate for the harm caused by them. However, there are some people who consider such behavior beneficial for the future development of these children. Moreover, there are many illegal activities of bullies that have to be persecuted and eliminated in the nearest future.
References
Evans, C. B., Fraser, M. W., & Cotter, K. L. (2014). The effectiveness of school-based bullying prevention programs: A systematic review. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 19(5), 532-544. Web.
Reijntjes, A., Vermande, M., Olthof, T., Goossens, F. A., Schoot, R. V., Aleva, L., & Meulen, M. V. (2013). Costs and benefits of bullying in the context of the peer group: A three wave longitudinal analysis. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 41(8), 1217-1229. Web.
Ttofi, M. M., Farrington, D. P., Lösel, F., Crago, R. V., & Theodorakis, N. (2016). School bullying and drug use later in life: A meta-analytic investigation. School Psychology Quarterly, 31(1), 8-27. Web.
Valdebenito, S., Ttofi, M. M., Eisner, M., & Gaffney, H. (2017). Weapon carrying in and out of school among pure bullies, pure victims and bully-victims: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 33(1), 62-77. Web.