School Bullying and Legal Responsibility

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.