Teen-Bullying

In Jamie Nabozny case the rash amount of bullying made him want to take his own life. Jamie decided in seventh grade, that only way to escape the bullying, was to kill himself by taking a number of different pills. After rethinking what he had done, he told his mother, who then rushed him to the hospital and had Jamie’s stomach pumped. Still in High School, Jamie was being bullied because he was gay, and the started to become physical. On day while Jamie was doing his homework he was beaten so badly that he needed to be rushed to the hospital, and have surgery. One of the students stated that he would kill Jamie if, he were to tell who beat him up. In Jamie’s case the court held that the school district did not do enough, or anything at all to stop the bullying. The school district was found guilty, and Jamie was awarded 900,000 dollars from the case, which in reality is not enough for what Jamie had experience on a day to day basis. At Deerfield, there does not seem to be a bullying problem because, our school has enforced many rules that cover harassment, and bullying. Due to the numerous rules and restrictions, I feel students do not bully others because they realize that the consequences are severe for simply saying something inappropriate or beating another student up.  I do not think bullying is a problem a Deerfield High School, but it does occur here in smaller cases. Bullying can occur in many different ways, such as physical abuse, verbal abuse, cyber bullying, and texting, which my make a student feel that he or she cannot escape the abuse no matter where they go. At Deerfield there are some traditions like homecoming week, in which the senior class hazes the underclass men, which to supervisors and deans at the school may seem like bullying, but in reality it is nothing more than some harsh verbal exchanges, and maybe some physical abuse if things get out of hand. Truly these are the only time where Deerfield may consider bullying as a problem, because otherwise I feel that the students have respect for each other, and know their limits in certain situations. For other schools around the country and world that experiences sever cases of bullying, new programs and ideas should be considered in order to stop bullying. In the television show If You Really Knew me, I felt by taking the students out of school and exploiting them to the program, it made the students more aware of the problem, and made the students more aware of what they were doing to one another.