"Pesistant" Bullies Should Be Expelled

1. First of all I would like to make it clear that it is “persistent “bullies that should be expelled. I am not saying that bullies should be expelled right away. I agree with the idea that children who are bullying the other are also the ones who have issues with communicating other students and they should be given help and the second opportunity. So how persistent is persistent? There is need to define “persistent.” It probably changes at each school though; they all have different rules and regulations. Some schools might give them the notice warning that the one who bully the other will be expelled if bullying happens again. If bullying happens again even after giving them the second chance and at the same time offering them some kind of help such as a personal counseling, they should be expelled. Counseling and providing them right direction to not to bully the others would not work all the time due to lack of resource or proficiency of the counselor. There should be many other reasons that counseling might not work because the issue is complex the most of the time. And there might be another child who have been a victim of bullying and die by one's own hand during the process of counseling of those children who bully the other. Therefore, giving aggressors the second chance would be enough just for once, and they should be expelled from school after the second time. 2. It is very difficult for children who suffer from being bullied to report bullying because they are afraid of retaliation later. If there is no guarantee that aggressor will be gone from school, they would be afraid and hesitant to report the issue to school or parents and probably take no action against bullying. There should be pretty high probability that retaliation will happen after reporting bully since the attackers probably would get pretty upset if they find out that they have been reported to the school for bullying, blame the weaker, and the situation will just be worse. But if they know that those children who are bullying will be gone from school, they are more likely to report bullying because they don’t have to worry about retaliation later. In one of the claims made by opposition side, somebody claims that report on a bully and she/he will come back at you worse the situation. If there is not any action taken against bullying, nothing will happen and will be changed, and children being bullied will just keep suffering from bullying and they might commit a suicide eventually. Therefore, as a result of expelling the attackers, there will be more lives saved. I am aware that defining bullying or evaluating which side is wrong or right is difficult to do. But I believe the issue of bullying is similar of the issue of sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is pretty subjective; it depends on the persons who receive it. If she/he feels that she/he has been sexually harassed, it should be called sexual harassment. The same idea can be applied to bullying. If a child feels being bullied verbally or physically by the others and mentally or physically harmed, it should be called bullying. Therefore, if somebody claims that he/she has been bullied, some actions that will lead to expelling aggressor at the end should be taken. 3. Being exuded from a school would negatively affect bully’s life. It is pretty severe punishment that will bring many detrimental consequences to them. It is much more severe punishment than suspension and probably the most oppressive punishment a school can give to a bully. They might have to deal with many difficulties after going though the process of expulsion and possibly going to another school. They might potentially even become a victim of bullying after joining a new school. They will have to suffer defamation of being a bully. There should be an opportunity to give them a second chance before expulsion like I stated earlier. But if the second time happens, there has to be a consequence that they have to be deal with. If there is no severe punishment, who or what will stop them from bullying? If a bully gets away with it, she/he has no incentive to change and the weaker will keep suffering from it. Even though expelling from school will adversely affect attacker’s life, they deserve it; that is the consequence of what they did. There might be wrong judgment of expelling them, but it is for protection of lives of children who are targets of bulling. A value of lives of children should be overweighed more than anything else. The harsher the punishment, bigger the effect. The harsher the punishment, there should be less possibility of bullying and another life might be saved. It is not capital punishment and that is the whole another issue. They will have to deal with painful consequence of bullying because they have been bullying the weaker without knowing the pain of suffering.