School bullying getting worse
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omonatheydidA 14-year-old boy who was attending a middle school in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, forced his classmate to write and sign a slavery contract in November last year on grounds that he had done “something wrong to the former.”
The victim, who had been bullied, was obliged write a “Body Abandonment Note” at the collective threat by five other colleagues of the 14-year-old. The bullied had to crawl on all fours, weeping, in front of other classmates at the order of the attacker thereafter. They even beat him if he refused to obey, citing the note.
“I just did the same thing to him as I heard that he had been bullied since his elementary school days,” the 14-year-old boy said in an interview with The Korea Times on Jan. 16. “I only copied what others did to another classmate after making him write a note of body abandonment in May last year.”
School violence has been developing to more cruel type, such as slave contracts mentioned above amid the rapid distribution of advanced smartphones. Another new type of bullying based on smartphone is “battery charger holder,” which refers to a bullied student who has to hold all kinds of battery chargers by smartphone makers for those who exhaust their batteries while playing games on the smartphone.
“In general, there is one battery charger holder in each class, with five to six in each grade in total,” said a 19-year-old high school girl at Goyang, Gyeonggi Province.
It is also common for bullies that extort money from weaker students on the occasion of anniversaries. For example, they forced younger students to take money from others to buy “Pepero”stick snacks on Nov. 11 -- known as Pepero Day here -- the day of exchanging stick-shaped cookies between friends, families and couples. They also threatened weaker classmates to bring money to buy presents for their parents. The amount is not fixed and they say “As you want to do.”
“But less than 20,000 won is not acceptable although the amount is said to be enough if the victim wants to bring. He might be beaten with such small amount,” said a 16-year-old student in Nowon-gu, northern Seoul. “They might collect more than 100,000 won in one class.”
An anti-youth violence councilor said that new campus violence has also come from the imbalance of power between students. “What makes it worse is that new types of school violence have not easily spotted due to tricky smartphones and other high-tech devices,” said Jeon Yeon-hwa, counselor of the Foundation on Anti-Violence.
Jeon Yeon-hwa , a counselor at an anti-youth violence body, said, “Even new form of school bullying stems from the unbalance of power between students, but it’s even worse because it cannot be noticed easily unless watching it with full attention.”
Source: Koreatimes
The victim, who had been bullied, was obliged write a “Body Abandonment Note” at the collective threat by five other colleagues of the 14-year-old. The bullied had to crawl on all fours, weeping, in front of other classmates at the order of the attacker thereafter. They even beat him if he refused to obey, citing the note.
“I just did the same thing to him as I heard that he had been bullied since his elementary school days,” the 14-year-old boy said in an interview with The Korea Times on Jan. 16. “I only copied what others did to another classmate after making him write a note of body abandonment in May last year.”
School violence has been developing to more cruel type, such as slave contracts mentioned above amid the rapid distribution of advanced smartphones. Another new type of bullying based on smartphone is “battery charger holder,” which refers to a bullied student who has to hold all kinds of battery chargers by smartphone makers for those who exhaust their batteries while playing games on the smartphone.
“In general, there is one battery charger holder in each class, with five to six in each grade in total,” said a 19-year-old high school girl at Goyang, Gyeonggi Province.
It is also common for bullies that extort money from weaker students on the occasion of anniversaries. For example, they forced younger students to take money from others to buy “Pepero”stick snacks on Nov. 11 -- known as Pepero Day here -- the day of exchanging stick-shaped cookies between friends, families and couples. They also threatened weaker classmates to bring money to buy presents for their parents. The amount is not fixed and they say “As you want to do.”
“But less than 20,000 won is not acceptable although the amount is said to be enough if the victim wants to bring. He might be beaten with such small amount,” said a 16-year-old student in Nowon-gu, northern Seoul. “They might collect more than 100,000 won in one class.”
An anti-youth violence councilor said that new campus violence has also come from the imbalance of power between students. “What makes it worse is that new types of school violence have not easily spotted due to tricky smartphones and other high-tech devices,” said Jeon Yeon-hwa, counselor of the Foundation on Anti-Violence.
Jeon Yeon-hwa , a counselor at an anti-youth violence body, said, “Even new form of school bullying stems from the unbalance of power between students, but it’s even worse because it cannot be noticed easily unless watching it with full attention.”
Source: Koreatimes
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Date: 2012-01-17 12:26 pm (UTC)Poor kids.
Tbh I was never a victim of bullying in school since I was pretty popular as the school ~*=[[REPRESENTATIVE]]=*~ and no one could ever touch me because they knew what I and my network (aka circle of friends) were capable of >8)
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Date: 2012-01-17 01:35 pm (UTC)Intimidation, form of bullying jsyk
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Date: 2012-01-17 12:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-18 02:33 am (UTC)I met up with 2 ESL students at my school, the older one asked me a question that the younger one started to answer and all he had to do was hold up his hand without even looking at the guy and the younger one stopped talking mid-sentence and stared at the ground. It's pretty awkward to have to watch.
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Date: 2012-01-17 12:36 pm (UTC)Why so violent. Kids nowadays.
My high school days was seems like fairy tale, the worst that could happen is a bitchface showdown from the senior to junior.
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Date: 2012-01-17 01:15 pm (UTC)Even I, who was unpopular and had no friends, was never bullied. Have things really changed so much?
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Date: 2012-01-17 01:36 pm (UTC)Bullying is not okay and I really wish some schools take it more seriously. I remember when I was young, a senior student walked past me and slapped me, I don't know whether it was a joke or whatever. The school found out and The guy got in trouble and left soon after. I love my school. ;~;
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Date: 2012-01-17 01:59 pm (UTC)You should do something about bullying, but I wonder what would be the best solution. One solution doesn't work for everbody. And not all problems can be solved by the school, e.g. if there are issues at home.
Just had an interesting lecture about how lack of parental attention might make a child (under the age of 7) play a lot of violent games/watch violent shows and later this might be the reason for violent behaviour (since someone under the age of 7 isn't able to differentiate fantasy and reality really).
I wonder if this (lack of parental attention) is why these kids bully too. It's really horrible, to torture others like this.
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Date: 2012-01-17 02:01 pm (UTC)Some bully because they were bullied, other do it to catch attention, some do it to proove they exist others are just sociopath.
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Date: 2012-01-17 02:57 pm (UTC)thank god i had the balls to tell my parents about it one day and they talked with my teacher and the parents of the people that bullied me, but they didnt get a punishment back then, they didnt even apologize. i guess people just thought they were ~too young~ to understand what they did to me (we all were around 11/12 back then).
i was even told to give them another chance because people change and whatnot when they still made fun of me
/cool story bro
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Date: 2012-01-17 03:18 pm (UTC)Reminds me of how I got bullied. I didn't say anything most of the time b/c 1) I'm a very quiet person and 2) I didn't think peeps would believe me or cared. One event broke the camel's back and I finally told my parents. Not much was done to the students, but I was glad they at least addressed it. This was in middle school too =/
That's why I am so determined to help fix this issue when I enter middle school teaching full-time.
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Date: 2012-01-17 03:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-17 03:53 pm (UTC)but back in "my day" it was mainly verbal.
....but slave contracts? beatings? stealing?
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Date: 2012-01-17 04:14 pm (UTC)When I was bullied the kids parents who bullied me were always going "Oh my child would never do anything like that she must be lying" I was
lucky enough to have a duo of kick ass parents who personally bitched out everyone and that I got so fed up in the end, I retaliated. But the
escalation of violent bullying in school is no joke it is awful my little niece came home with a black eye, scratched up knee one day and she had told the teachers it was an accident but with a little coaxing she revealed that a group of girls had pushed her off the highest point of the jungle gym. She and her classmates are only 6! Fuming at that one.
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Date: 2012-01-17 04:19 pm (UTC)6?!?!
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Date: 2012-01-17 05:38 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-01-17 06:39 pm (UTC)I can't help but pity the students who experience and see these things first hand every single day of their lives. If anything, I think they'd pretty much be the best people to talk to about what kind of bullying is going down around school and who is being bullied. Students know best in these cases. You can't expect teachers to see all of these things because they aren't around the kids 24/7, but teachers are the best people to go to for enacting punishment on these kids. The government really has a tough task ahead of them. Parents need to step up and actually be better parents. Plus, Asian countries on a whole need to change their mentality of power and seniority etc.
Even if I think some of these kids need to go to a juvenile delinquent centre with all the things they put others through, especially when the victim ends up committing suicideno subject
Date: 2012-01-17 08:26 pm (UTC)i was never bullied but i feel sorry for ones that had been cos my people, when they bully , they bully hardcore! to the point that if i know those kids, i would spank them , eventhough im not their parents, who the FUCK cares! they were bad!
and there was a news in my country, where a 9-11 years old kid chopped off another kid's penis!!!!!!!!
AND THE PARENTS DIDNT EVEN APOLOGIZE WTF! THAT KID MUST BE LIKE...... FUCK PARENTS THESE DAYS!
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Date: 2012-01-17 08:44 pm (UTC)No matter how bad it got for us, I can truly say that we had it a lot easier than these kids. What the hell?
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Date: 2012-01-17 09:57 pm (UTC)wtf is wrong with the kids nowadays?! parents and teachers should pay attention to their kids/students -_-
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Date: 2012-01-17 10:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-17 10:09 pm (UTC)I can feel that this gif will be used often.
Honestly, I'm glad I lived in a bubble tbh where everyone was quite friendly. I can't with reading all this and imagining what people went through.
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Date: 2012-01-17 10:16 pm (UTC)Are you bloody kidding me. I can't with the squids. No brain. No fucking brains.
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Date: 2012-01-17 11:20 pm (UTC)It breaks my heart to hear of children going through such horrible things. And it sounds like no one is really fighting to protect them :(
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