This image was received from the website called Education News. This image is a young adult girl crying and depressed looking. Behind her is a group of girls that look like they are talking about her and somewhat look like they dislike the girl that is crying. One of the girls on the far right of the image is pointing at the sad girl and most likely talking bad about her. This image is disturbing because young kids and young adults in these days in age are very hateful and mean. They feel they have the control to accept or not accept whoever they want and if they do not accept someone for whatever reason then they control the others around them so that they do not accept that person either. This creates a group of bullies instead of one person. I seem to see that girls for whatever reasons are the ones that do most of the bulling. Girls are constantly in competition with one another and a lot of the time it has to do with boys that they are dating that another girl may have been dating before her causing these girls to not like the new girlfriend. These kids these days need to learn to focus on what is really important at this age and that's their education. Not their popularity or opposite sex attractions. In the news lately we recently learned about a young 12 year old girl who committed suicide because she was being bullied so bad. No one seemed to understand how bad this situation was until she took her life. Not even the boyfriend who was the reason why she was being bullied. This is becoming a true issue within our children’s lives and something needs to be done about it.
Cited Work:
Muhammad Nadeem “As
Schools Focus on Bullying, Clarity Remains Elusive” http://www.educationnews.org/k-12-schools/schools-focus-on-bullying-clarity-remains-elusive/#sthash.JCdl0Gk6.dpuf
Web. 10 Oct 2013
It's unfortunate that this image portrays such a regular occurrence in schools. I know that this was a regular sight when I was growing up and now that I'm a mother I've been seeing this same situation played out in my daughter's schools. It has been really challenging as a parent to help guide my daughter through these types of situations and help her learn how to deal with the clique mentality that is so prevalent in schools and peer groups. Actually when she was in middle school I ended up reading a few books focusing on these issues that were really helpful in building her up in a way that she learned to avoid the drama and meanness as much as possible. One that might be a good source for research was called Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip. Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World by Rosalind Wiseman. I think she also offered in her book other research and studies that might come in useful in this area.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture brings back some sad memories of me growing up. I have long blonde hair like this girl does in this photo and all through middle and high school I was always just the “dumb blonde”.
I think it is very sad that because I had a certain hair color I was considered dumb, eventually it took a toll on me and I dropped out of high school. My mother didn’t approve of that, so she worked extra hard to put me in a private school where nobody made fun of my hair color.
In today’s society bulling is all over and it starts as young as pre-school. The other day my four year old son came home saying that somebody made fun of him because he accidently didn’t put on the same pair of shoes. One foot had on one and the other one had on a different one. Knowing that I let my child go to school like that (it was a very crazy morning and I didn’t pay attention) and get made fun of just broke my heart. From now on I will always check their shoes.
I think you are one hundred percent correct when you say girls get made of more than boys do. It would be interesting to find the reason is for that. Maybe you could do a survey and ask some high school students and see what they have to say.
I am really looking forward to reading the rest of your paper.
Lindsey
All your information seems to be portraying an image such as this girl so it really fits well as your image analysis. Its interesting the point about girls being bullied more is brought up, do you think that is because they are bullied by both sexes more, instead of just their own. Or does bullying go both ways for both genders that would be really interesting to know. The images focus is clearly on the girl in the front, and with the rest blurry it makes her feel very lonely. Your ideas are really good so far and I am interested to see where you end up.
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