Mentality

Bullying is a serious subject in education; thousands of kids are effected in a negative way daily, and is becoming a more prevalent issue in societies eyes. Debra Piotrowski and James Hoot wrote an article, "Bullying and violence in Schools," that informs the audience that bullying resorts from individuals who are consumed by their damaged emotions of depression, inferiority, inadequacy, insecurity, loneliness, fear, jealousy and rejection. Bullying is a mentality of aggressive defense. It is a mentality fear, fear of getting hurt any more. It is a mentality that is developed usually when that last straw is put on that camel and the camel's back breaks. It is a mentality that begins to feel good because no one wants to mess with you anymore, everyone leaves you alone. It's a mentality that damages the emotional disturbance evermore, and we as educators must do our job to catch and notice these types of behaviors early on in education because they tend to carry on in life. Casey Heynes is a boy from Australia that had enough bullying one day, and after being punched repeatedly in the face and body, body slammed his bully into the concrete--thus changing the bully/victim relationship. In an interview he was asked if he felt remorse and how he felt about the whole situation, in which he replied that it felt "good," with no remorse, because it stopped the bully from messing with him.