Politics-- Bullying?

For years now there has been this rising trend within schools starting mainly in middle school. Bullying itself has escalated to drastic measures. Every person is susceptible to bullying but there are different types of groups who are actually bullied. Bullying depends on the person. If a person stands out or is deemed different for some list of reasons, they are more likely to be judged and criticized for every little thing that they do. The actual bully depends on how they stand in society (within the school). How politics comes into play is that much work isn't really being done to prevent this epidemic. Bullying is still getting worse and lives are being lost because of it.

In this article, Challenging homophobic bullying in schools: the politics of progress discusses that the government isn't doing much to put a hold on this escalating problem. Yes, small governmental groups for rights are stepping in to make things a tad bit better, but in my opinion; it is going to take more than that. We need the "big guns" to intervene and create more stable laws on bullying and all its types. 

To grasp every aspect, there isn't just bullying occurring among young teens and adolescents. There is bullying with adults within jobs and so on. Even in politics lies bullying. It may not be as drastic in contrast to younger teens, but it does exist. My thoughts seem to be all over the place, but the aspect of my point is that we desperately need more government involvement.

The government has recognized the toll that bullying has taken on the U.S. and made some efforts of changing it. There are bullying laws, but how much is that actually helping to solve the problem? Most victims don't even speak up about being bullie4d so how can bullying laws be thrown into action? In the end, our society as a whole has chinks in it. It's not fully developed when it comes to the topic of homophobic bullying or just bullying in general. What we need is something to take the laws more in depth to making living as a person classified as different better.

To wrap things up, below, I'll give you the link to the article that fueled my questions and concerns.

Article Link

Kira M. 

Works Cited

Daniel Monk (2011). Challenging homophobic bullying in schools: the politics of progress. International Journal of Law in Context, 7 , pp 181-207 doi:10.1017/S1744552311000061