Cause and Effect of Bullying

Cause and Effect of Bullying

Bullying is a serious problem in schools today. Most children become bullies due to stress or stressful situations they are forced to deal with. Bullying normally begins by stuff they see at home such as their parents fighting, maybe the bully was bullied by someone else earlier in their life, or maybe they even are having trouble with their academics. A lot of bullying does result in what they see at their house. If a young child grows up seeing his or her parents constantly fighting and hitting each other, of course they are going to think that is acceptable behavior. Some kids may have even been excessively picked on by their older siblings which could also cause this behavior. If they feel like they don’t have any power against their siblings because they’re older or bigger than them, when they go to school with kids their own size or age they’re going to finally feel like they have the power and of course they will constantly pick on them. Sometimes, they even just want to get revenge for what happened to them at one point in time. Bullying can sometimes come from a lack of academic performance. I have noticed that most bullies aren’t the kids who make good grades, but the ones who do struggle with them. They get frustrated that they can’t make as good of grades as some people in their classes, which then builds up anger. If a bully is jealous of someone, they more than likely are going to bully them out of spite. Bullies come off as strong and confident people, but that’s not it at all. They like the sense of authority that they have over other kids because maybe that’s the only thing they hold any power in. Many bullies take their insecurities out on other people which then cause the kids they bully to be insecure. It’s such a shame that young kids these days are being bullied, and more attention needs to be brought to the situation