Should schoolyard bullying become a criminal offence?

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What is schoolyard bullying? It is an exercise in causing indefinite amounts of pain to someone else without regard for their feelings or emotional well-being. A bully chooses to ignore the pain of others and disregards the consequences. When people gather together to induce this type of pain it is considered mob mentality. Each bully alone welds singular pain; together the group that chooses to harass and degrade another have the ability to leave the bullied person alone and depressed within every corner of their daily life. It is psychological warfare waged by people of weak moral character. This weakness in moral character comes from the bully not the bullied. If a person is already dealing with pain and sorrow know or unknown to the bully, then this can be the last straw or the final signal that life is too hard and no one cares or understands the deep disconnect a person feels when depressed or alienated. The bullied try not be weak but endure the constant barrage of insults, mental-physical abuse, or whatever deranged method the bullies choose. But there is a breaking point where the bullied become too tortured to endure the menace; they rise up and strike back or surrender. Either is not necessary if the bullies knew that their behavior was unacceptable by any and all; punishable by law. But this still will not stop those who choose to bully. It is an internal character, the influence of family and peers and a need for society’s non-acceptance of the weakness of the bully or bullies that can stop schoolyard bullying. The fact that some feel the bullies come from good families, are good kids means that apparently they have not looked at the behaviour of the bullies. If these are good kids from good families with values and moral standards they would not have place themselves in the position of the harasser, the degrader, the killer of a human soul. Again, the bully chooses to bully it is not just something that oops happens. It is methodically planned, daily devised and arranged between the conspirators to cause anguish and deep hurting pain. Once is a lapse of judgment; continuous harassment over days, weeks, or months is a crime. This is a CRIME of HATE and RAGE subjecting a person to relentless ridicule and disregard of the victim’s state of mind or history. It is sad that again the schools are to blame for the lack of judgment of these students from GOOD FAMILIES. It is not the school’s responsibility and should not be the government’s priority to raise children to be GOOD citizens. It is the FAMILIES responsibility to teach their children kindness of heart. It started with rumors, a love triangle, and a dirty look in a high-school bathroom. Soon jokes about an innocent loving female student cropped up on Facebook, and a girl’s face was scribbled out of a class photo hanging up at school. One day, in the canteen, another girl marched in, pointed at her, and shouted "stay away from other people’s men." A week later, as the girl walked home, a car full of students crept close. One kid hurled a crumpled soda can out the window, followed closely by shrieks of bad language. If your children had behaved like this, how would you want them punished? Certainly a proper grounding would be in order; computer privileges revoked. Detention, yes—maybe even suspension. Or what about 10 years in jail? Now what if i told you that the girl had gone home after the soda-can incident and killed herself—discovered by her little sister, hanging in a stairwell. Now which punishment fits the crime? Schoolyard bullying has caused a lot of eyebrows to “jump”. This is because of statistics that were recorded in the Herald Sun, early in 2011. • About 42 percent of kids have been bullied while in school with one in four being verbally attacked more than once. • About 35 percent of kids have been threatened in schools. • About 58 percent of kids and teens have reported that something mean has been said about them or to them in schools. • about 77 percent of students have admitted to being the victim of one type of bullying or another. • The Australian Justice Department bullying statistics show that one out of every 4 kids will be bullied sometime throughout their adolescence. • 46 percent of males followed by 26 percent of females have admitted to being victims in physical fights. These are ridiculous statistics and how on earth does irresponsible, low-life people bully others. I’ll tell you how, they physically and mentally act tough and decide to bully someone in front of their friends, so they become some sort of heroes. What do you think about schoolyard bullying?