Bullying

Watching the video If you really knew me made me think that there are possible solutions and that every school needs this no matter which because it can possibly stop bullying. The solutions this video brought up was that people were able to speak to one another about they’re experiences in life and what makes it so hard and trying to keep a school status at the same time. People were able to say sorry for all the things they had done to others and fix past relationships with each other. People learned stuff about each other they never knew before which made it easy to talk. This was a good way for the kids to reach out and explain how they feel and are tired of the pressure. Even if the school doesn’t have problems with bullying it can help the kids get comfortable with each other and possibly behave nicer.

In an article I read 1 Ohio school, 4 bullied teens dead by own hand it reflected on how the kids were bullied to death and recent events since two of the familys are suing the school in Ohio. In this article it listed the kids who were bullied. One was bullied for being gay, one  was bullied for wearing pink, one was bullied for having a learning disability and one commited suicide with antidepressents. All of this had happened at one school and now the parents of two of the families are suing the school for not protecting the kids from the bullys. The school could have done an assembly of some sort to stop the bullying. This school has a tendency to have students commit suicide they should have done something to prevent any more suicides.

At DHS I don’t think it’s a big problem. Im not saying there isnt any but its not that big of a problem here. I think DHS is different because people are more accepting here and we were taught by the schools and our parents that certain things such as bullying and other bad habits arent accepted in this community. I also think we don’t classify certain behaviors as bullying such as people avoiding others because they think they’re weird. I see it a lot at this school and people just avoid others and those people who are avoided probably feel really alone. Its not like they are being bullied but they are being shunned by most people.

Potential solutions that I think are affective consist of the school performing a school assembly that shows that the school is not tolerable of bullying and what is considered bullying and what happens when you bully. It should be serious unlike our 7 reasons to leave a party assembly. I think it is up to the teachers to watch out for kids being bully to stand up for them and warning kids who are bullying that they can get in serious trouble and if they do it more than once or twice they can be sent to the deans. The teachers should help do that but it all comes down to affecting the students behavior. We need for them to stand up for each other and show how bullying isn’t correct and to stop it. 75% of the way to stop bullying is up to the kids and how they will behave. To stop bullying you need to show them that bullying isn’t correct and that if a teacher isn’t there, its up to the student to stop it.

Drug testing in schools

I think that drug testing isn’t the best way of testing wether students are using illegal substances. The tests may show which illegal drugs they used such as marijuana or heroine etc., but it doesn’t exactly show if kids have been abusing alchohol because that can leave the body system in 24 hours and would not show up on tests. In result of drug testing kids would be more likely to use alchohol which can be a more serious drug since it could produce more accidents and such. The  blue sheet I have gives insight of this by expalining “Drug testing says very little about who is misusing or abusing drugs…Additionally, students misusing other harmful substances not detected by drug tests will not be identified” (Blue Sheet). Drug testing can only go so far and it doesn’t tell everything a person has done in the past 24 hours.

In some cases it does though, some medications people such as anitbiotics and medications for allergies have come up positive for certain illegal drugs. Such a case happened when student Mike Brown was randomly drug tested when he was prescribed medicine and the schools test came up positive for him taking cocaine. Later they drug tested him randomly for six months “…and began to feel harassed and stigmitized as a result” (Blue Sheet). After being yelled at for not having enough urine to make a sixth sample the Browns decided to remove him from the drug testing program making Mike Brown unable to participate in extracurricular activities. Some tests are wrong and could really hurt kids like it did with the Brown case. That’s why there shouldn’t be drug testing.