Friday, August 27, 2010

Classmate response blog

This quote is from Grizzell's blog:
"One was to help the girl that was being bullied by the other students, and the second choice was to ignore what was going on and do not tell the teachers. I decided to choose the second choice because I did not want to get bullied if I told on them to the teachers. I regret what was my choice and now I want to explain why people bully each other. People or students bully each other because they think they are superior compared to others in their work or in school. They do this because they want attention from students, teachers, or co-workers."
          What Grizzell said about how bullies think they are superior and wants attention is true. The bullies have pride in themselves and they always think that they are better than the rest. Bullies harass others because they refuse to see the bullied as their equals. Bullies also want attention. They want everyone to know that they are the best. Their want of attention might be because of the lack of attention that they didn't receive from their parents or others. I agree with what Grizzell said on the second half of the paragraph. Bullies have many reasons and one reason might be because they want attention. Everyone needs attention or they will feel left out. Bullies are lonely because no one wants to be near them. They think that they gain attention but it makes people avoid them more. This is the reason why bullies continue to bully.
          I think that this relates to the ASTI constitution because of her regret that she mentioned. One of what the ASTI constitution said was, "Take responsibility for your actions and words." Grizzell regretted her decision of not helping the bullied girl. she could've helped her but she chose not to. She chose to walk away and ignore it. Grizzell felt responsible and thus her regretful feeling came to her. She felt bad for her decision and i think this relates because Grizzell might want to take the first choice if she ever did witness someone bullying others.

Friday, August 20, 2010

Phuong Ha: Reflection #13

‘Just Kidding’ and ‘Ganging Up’ from Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons
            I am usually a person who witness people getting bullied from afar. I felt bad for that person because the bullies were saying such harsh things to the bullied. Although most of the times, the bullies only use words to attack the bullied, I witnessed a few bullying in which the bullies actually hit the bullied. My options in the situation in which I see someone getting bullied is that I can walk away, help the bullies, or help the bullied. To walk away would mean that I pretend not to see anything. This sounds cruel but I won’t be involved with it. I can help the bullies but that is an option no one would even want to choose. To help the bullied, I might also be bullied later on. This will cause me trouble because I might be another victim. If I do want to help the bullied, the best way is to get a group of friends to help as well. This way, the bullies might get intimidated.
            I think that people bully others because they think they are better than the others. I think that they are too stubborn to understand the fact that they are the same as others. With the pride they gathered up, they bully others to show it and to gather more pride. They bully because they want to show that they are stronger than the rest of the people. The reason why they want to hurt their peers might be because of jealousy, anger or frustration. They might be jealous of one of their peers with something so they want to hurt their peers. It might be from anger because bullies can hate someone and bully that someone. They might bully their peers to vent their frustrations out to people.