Bullies

In today’s busy society many of us have become more concerned with the battles we face concerning economic crisis along with political and social aspects. These topics have become so important that we have forgotten other things that use to be more important long ago. Among these forgotten essential issues are children and schools. If one could take a look at a historical timeline, it would show a pattern of particular risk that are associated with children that are being bullied and the bully.

Since the notorious Columbine High School tragedy more efforts where made to prevent bullying in schools across America. Unfortunately because more relevant issues have arose, keeping bullying under control has become least of worries. Lamar Bailey produced an article stating that all schools should be more concerned in adopting a strict bully policy (Bailey, 2009). Bailey affirms that in order to make a policy, schools must first define what bullying is exactly (Bailey, 2009).That way all students would be aware of what is bullying exactly.

Although Bailey’s efforts to refine each and every school’s policy are for the good, some wonder if the polices infringe on freedom of speech rights. Ronald Collins who is a scholar at a nonprofit nonadvocacy First Amendment Center raises the question if the anti-bullying laws are conflicting with the right the first Amendment gives us (Bailey, 2009).Collins simply asserts that depending on the definition of bullying dictates whether or not it violates the First Amendment (Bailey, 2009). Even though Collins assembled a strong argument, Bailey declares more significant points as to why the strict bully policy should still be set in place.

The author conveys as to how bullying may have long term effect on not just the victim (Bailey, 2009). Bullying can also endanger the person doing the behavior (Bailey, 2009). According to Bailey, bullying can lead to suicide attempts, injuries, drug and alcohol abuse, running away, skipping...