Watching that video on bullying really put some things in perspective and I realized that shootings, bullyings, and any other violence in schools can happen anywhere at anytime to anyone. Yes, that video focused on those people who were bullied and then shot people and killed them. But, not everyone that is bullied is going to shoot up a school. people who are not bullied could very well shoot up a school.
The thing that stuck o ut the most was the kid who shot his ex girlfriend in the cafeteria and one other person. He said he had deliberate people he wanted to shoot and aimed for them. Walking up to your ex girlfriend and just shooting her? Crazy, to say the least. On top of that, before he even went to school he kills his mom? That was just indescribable. I did not know what to say or how to react besides, "Oh my Gosh!" But then again, so did everyone else I think.
It's hard to think of kids that have been pushed that far, to something that drastic. It sucks to think that out of everyone in these child's lives, that not ONE person could see that he/she was depressed or angry or just needed a friend. ONE person is all it could have taken possible. It's harder to think even more about if something like this happened at your own school. What if it was one of your students? One of the ones you tried to reach out to? How would that make you feel? It is just crazy to think about something like that happening at your school, but then again, I'm sure everyone else thought that as well.
ED460 Personal and Social Well Being is a course taken by college students in education during their student teaching semester. Topics covered include: poverty, child abuse, bullying, drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, counselors' role in school, adolescents and choices, and the use of technology.
I agree with you comment about how the students could feel so incredibly alone and not one person cared enough to notice before they took drastic measures. I thought it was very strange that the first kid in the video that shot himself in front of everyone had told his parents about his bullying situation but they did nothing about it except to listen to him. Sure that helps him vent about his situation but that doesnt mean it put a stop to the bullying. There is so much more needed to be done in our schools to prevent students like that from getting lost in the crowd with no one to listen to them.
ReplyDeleteyea dude I completly agree. Seeing that video hit me really hard and at all those moments you described i felt the same way.
ReplyDeleteIn drumline my sophomore year we had a student who played cymbals, about halfway through first semester he got kicked out of school for drug abuse. He was a freshmen, I didn't really know him it bummed me out, but i shaked it off. Mr Hanman, our director, came over to me and said well sean we lost another one. He said it in this sincere voice and i was thrown back. He blamed himself in a way for losing that child. He wanted to do something, he asked me what we could have/ should have done. We continued to discuss and I realized he was thinking like a teacher and I wasn't even close yet. My point is dude i don't think we can even put to words what it is going to be like if something like that happens in our classroom, it is indescribable. Were gonna have to start thinking like teachers and just honestly try to give each and every student our complete all so we can work that it never does.