Bullying of Students with Disabilities

We still have cowards within the education system who feels that praying on others will build them up to a point where they are seen as having power. All resources must be channeled to let these individuals see that their behavior will not be tolerated and they will be found and appropriate actions taken against them.
 
A lot of times the kids that are bullying are being bullied themselves at home. There is also the factor of neglect. They are not being disciplined by their parents and so they continue with the bad behavior.
 
I think bullies themselves also has issues. For one, these bullies attack on people who are smart or the nerds of the class primarily because they are envious of these kids achievements. I think they attack the students with disabilities because again, these kids are brave enough to go to school even with their conditions. They probably feel threatened by how these students are able to go to school despite their conditions. And then, there they are, bullying these kids just to show they are superior. Even though deep inside, they feel insecure and cowardly.
 
I think this is great but they also need to take a look at the bullies' side of things. There is always a reason why kids feel they should start picking on other. It may be something in their personal lives that cause them to be doing it. You can't fix a problem without getting to the root of it.
 
Shenwil said:
I think this is great but they also need to take a look at the bullies' side of things. There is always a reason why kids feel they should start picking on other. It may be something in their personal lives that cause them to be doing it. You can't fix a problem without getting to the root of it.
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True enough, the bullies are quite often overlooked. I have been bullied as well when I was younger. I don't know why, I'm not the prettiest nor the brightest kid. But girls always pick on me and I just cannot understand why. And these are the popular girls and the girls who are loved by teachers even.

Even now, I struggle to find what their reasons are. Surely, there must be something that's bugging them. Maybe it's not me per se but something inside them. I have moved on but I surely hoped to understand more of their behaviour. The psychologist in me wants to.
 
It is beyond me to understand what provokes one to bully a disabled person. This is a manifestation of extreme intolerance and an acute deficit of empathy as well as sympathy. Some of these bullies are themselves victims of bullying and are only compensating by transferring the action to a weaker party. Others are pathological sadists .
 
It is indeed good news to protect children who are prone to bullying especially children with special needs. As a parent, it is one form of assurance that there's a rule that helps protect my child against bullying especially during moments when I'm not there to watch over him. I agree with what the others said about the bullies though. Aside from them being reprimanded from bullying, I think there should also be a program that would look into their situation. A program that will help discover what's behind the attitude of bullying because there's definitely a deeper reason behind it.
 
Unfortunately bullying in one form or another as been around ever since time began, and even though schools and teachers, parents and even the children themselves have tried to stop it, it still continues and it might sadly be a fact now that we will never be able to eradicate it completely no matter how much we try. A combination of education and punishment is all that we can do I feel from now on, and even though it might not sound like much, what other options is there to try and stamp out bullying, when it seems that everything we've tried in the past still hasn't made any difference?
 
I also remember being bullied when I was in high school and all I could do at that time was cower in shame and shyness. II eventually got over it but sometimes I still think of those times until now. It's really such an uneasy thing to be the one being bullied. Bullying has indeed been such a long time problem especially among the youth. I would never want my child to be bullied the way I was and the way other children are being humiliated to shame by others. I do hope that there would be an effective and permanent solution to this someday.
 
Any form of bullying doesn't just affect that child at the time, but can often leave a permanent scare and I think that the punishment dished out at the moment doesn't reflect that. A lot depends on the age of the child involved, and sometimes if the bully is a young age, severe punishment isn't always the answer but for a child that is old enough to know better, the just suspending them for a couple of weeks like what happens now isn't enough.
 
There is no excuse for bullying. The earliest time it is detected one should know how to deter it from happening the second time around. Predator preying on it's prey has been around long enough and it should end. It is possible if parents, and the whole society not just the teachers will have a hand into it. Otherwise, things will just be the same at it is.
 
When I was in grade school, I was bullied by the son of the student admin, he looks at himself too high, but now I saw him being at the lowest part of his life I want to help him but the anger is still in my heart, see how bullying our personality? That is why when I reach college, I used to fight the bullies, I hate them so much. There is one time my friend got bullied and steal his money, I immediately stand up to fight the guy, I don't care if I will be kicked out because of that action, all I want is to fight for my friend.
 
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