INTERVIEW WITH KEITH JILLETTE ON HIS RETURN FROM WASHINGTON, D.C.
Interviewer: Brianna St. Jean
Breanna; You recently went to D.C. ?
Keith: Yes
B: Why did you go there?
K: I was selected as part of the United States Senate Youth Program which is this organization created and sponsored by The Hearst Foundation and they select two students each year from each state as well as two students from D.C. and two students from military schools from around the world such as army base schools, so 104 kids every year to go to D.C. and participate in interactive learning about the government and interactive experience about the government. You get to listen to guest speakers and tour the city and it’s supposed to encourage us because we all got in based on our resume already being interested in politics it’s to encourage us to seek public service careers whether that be in elected office or just working for the federal government.
B: Who did you go there with from Rhode Island, did you know that person?
K: We met and bonded a lot on the trip, Zach Johnson who is a student down in East Greenwich.
B: Tell us about the visit to the White House.
K: They brought us in the east wing which is the public area, where they do tours but they brought us up to the more private part of the east wing, the part that connects to the rest of the White House.
B: Did you end up meeting the president?
K: And yes they had us line up and the president came down the hallway and it was pretty crazy because they have the columns on the side and if you’ve ever seen when they announced Bin Laden had been killed, when he walks down the hallway to the podium, we were basically where the podium was in the back and he comes around and down the hallway.
B: So, you got to meet him?
K: Well, not personally, he came and he talked to us, he gave his own introduction and he took pictures with us but then he took questions. My question wasn’t selected because he went boy, girl, boy, girl, and then he left because he’s a busy man but he took quite a few questions and he talked for over an hour, like an hour and ten minutes, which is the most, the longest he’s ever done for the program, and he has very interesting answers including unlimited donations to politicians he’d like to get rid of that to get money out of politics. He would also like to institute mandatory voting which I thought was interesting, like in today’s America the idea is that you have to go out of your way to sign up to vote, he thinks it should be the other way around and you should have to vote and if you want to not vote you can go out of your way to opt out to vote if you really don’t want to participate. As a student in this country, as a citizen, your responsibility should be to to vote and perhaps that would make us more informed and if you’re going to vote you would want to know about what you’re voting for, so those are some of his ideas on how to improve.
B: What were some of the questions that you were being asked?
K: Just like what would you do if you could go back in time and change the Constitution and that kind of stuff. A lot of the questions for a lot of the speakers were very specific to the speaker, for example, we also met Supreme Court Justice Ruth… So a lot of questions were about her career leading up to being a Supreme Court Justice and we met a judge who was a former alumni from the youth program, he's a former judge and now he’s the president of Oklahoma City University, Robert Henry, and so we asked a lot about his career accomplishments and his opinions on constitutional issues and traveling to D.C. It was a great experience because you got to go into the State Department so we got to see the diplomatic rooms where they bring diplomats and ambassadors where the government has special parties and it was amazingly decorated--all these original portraits and all that stuff. It’s like a museum in there, we were actually sitting in the same place listening to our speaker because you had a speaker usually with every meal and that was where the prime minister and president were the day before because he was currently visiting during the week. In fact a bunch of us actually saw the Canadian Prime Minister, he was walking towards us at the same time we were and they made us go off to the side while he walked by and he was with his security that was cool.
B: If you could do it again, would you?
K: Yeah, with the same people we forged such a close bond, we all went to bed around 10:30, supposedly, that's when they told us to but there was a lot of sneaking around with the security guards so really everyone was running on like four hours of sleep every night and then we would get up early in the morning because we had a packed schedule and everyday it was just constantly being with everybody. Everyone is so intellectual and so dedicated to what they believe in. It was a great discussion and a great bonding experience especially since we mostly knew each other already because we reached out through social media and we had a group chat, we managed to get all 104 of us in before the second to last day before the trip so it was cool to meet everyone in person, we definitely had a strong bond. I would definitely do it again and spend more time with each other, the whole last day no one even went to sleep because we had to pack our bags and they collected them in at midnight and then they wouldn't let us go back to our room after they collected our bags because the first bus left to the airport at like 3:30 in the morning so it was just the nonstop, having a good time down in the hotel ballrooms but it was great, I think I made some lifelong connections with some people.
B: Are you going reach out to those people even after?
K: Yeah the group chat is still rocking right now, everyone's talking about the great time everyone had.
B: Do you think you guys are going to meet up through the group chat again?
K: Yes, there's already a new plan for a regional reunion like in Boston on a so and so day, people who are there are going to show up and that kind of thing. The program is a strong alumni association where they meet yearly from all different years so we all have plans to join that organization and take part in it with the yearly meetings and all that stuff .
B: How long was your flight to D.C. ?
K: It was about an hour and a half flight, an hour and a half there and the same time back. Definitely better than the people who have to come from like Alaska and the kids that had to come from Japan and South Korea who were from the two military schools that got selected, they had to come quite a way. It was great to meet all these people from all over and across the country and to be able to say you have friends in California and Alaska and Michigan and all these different places. So basically during this week we would get up around 6 or 7, one time we were lucky we didn't have to get up till 8 and this was the same time we'd be going to school and be going to bed around 1 or 2 so you get up and you're feeling pretty groggy but there was a breakfast buffet everyday! It was all expenses paid, five-star hotel , it was the Mayflower Hotel which is where the Canadian prime minister was staying. so it's funny that we saw him at a random place and not at the hotel but so we had a breakfast buffet and by then I'm usually up with the two cups of coffee I got. We would eat and on a few days there would be a speaker right after breakfast or we'd head out right after that to go to either a monument or a memorial or just some building that we were touring and usually there we would hear from a few speakers, including a speaker we would have after lunch. And then we’d have a little time at the hotel before dinner or we’d kinda chill out and then we’d have a dinner speaker and then after that we’d have the night up until we had to be in our rooms to ourselves then that was at the end of the day and we’d usually be using google hang out to be communicating down the hall.
B: So you guys pretty much stayed on the go all the days you were there?
K: Yes, we definitely had a tight schedule we hit everything on it, it was a great experience, literally every hour we were doing something whether it was touring the Jefferson Memorial or whether it was going to the Anderson House and meeting the different officials there including the ambassador from Germany. It was interesting to hear his perspective as a foreign government official being in America working to get American help or going to NASA. We went to the NASA Space Park where they’re building a new telescope to kind of replace the Hubble Telescope so that was very interesting to hear about their perspective on public policy because they definitely care about technological innovation and investing in common change so we heard about a lot of different issues and a lot of different people definitely kind of expanded my idea of what you could definitely do about public service because everyone who works for the government is a public service which is a career I’d like to be involved with definitely, all of us would.
B: Do you remember some of the speakers’ names ?
K: Yes, besides the ones I’ve already mentioned, we heard from I believe his name is Jack … you could probably google him but he’s the executive director of the Society of the Cincinnati which is like a society made up of all the … it was made back during the time of the American Revolution, the officers, the American Army, and it’s all their senates, like the people that were in it today are directly descendents from the people who were originally joined, that’s the only way you could be in it and it’s preserving the Founding Fathers documents, letters, and memorials, and that kind of stuff. And this guy is a descendant, he talked about American exceptionalism and America's place in the world this is a historian, so that was a very interesting speech, Peter Widdig, the ambassador from germany, he gave a good speech, John Kirby, the assistant secretary of state for public certifications, basically he’s the secretary of state, John Kerry’s press secretary so he gives daily press briefing so he talked all about what that job was like and then answered questions on all state departments, I asked a few, I got a couple questions in for a few different speakers, including him and Jonathan Kephart, one of the breakfast speakers I think on Wednesday and he’s a reporter and opinion writer for the Washington Post so he gave his opinion on the presidential election and it was great to get his insight as someone who reports on that for a living and one of the highlights was Brian Lamb , the founder of C Spin which is the channel that provides direct coverage on congress and politics and live footage of the senate, they air documentaries, it’s public news service although the government and what they do, the founder of C Spin came and he interviewed us, like it was a live broadcast where we had got to ask him questions on what he did and he would walk around and interview us and all our experiences and that’ll be airing in a few weeks that was a great experience just everything was so amazing and intense .
B: What are some of the questions you asked to some of the speakers?
K: I asked Mr. Kirby, about what the policy the state department had for Syria based on the president with stained power because the Syrian civil war was being currently negotiated on going in on that war America is heavily involved in and the question is for the president who has committed innumerable atrocities against his own people what his placements cause the American policy is that he needs to step down as president but the international policy is that he should probably face trials for war crimes but that’s obviously something he would not prefer to do and the question is where do you leave all this when you’re facing international punishment for what he’s done so the question is would we be willing to trade or punish you if you leave office as president so I asked is that the kind of compromise that America would look into, is it basically letting the dictator off for what he’s done and he answered that, the policy is still developing but as long as Asad is out of power he does not imagine there won’t be any kind of international punishment he will face the kind of punishment he deserves whether it’s from the united states or whether it’s from somebody else , I asked Mr. Kephart, the journalist, about his opinion on how the media was so slow to pick up on the Donald Trump phenomenon, he’s originally written off as a joke and now at this point he’s likely to become their President Nominee so how is the establishment, how are they slowed to pick up on this trend the elector wanted someone loud at the anti- Obama if you would, you know he’s much more of an intellectual and he responded that the only way to look at presidential campaigns is through the prism of what has already happened , like you won’t know what happens in the future all you can go by is what has gone by and if this were any other election Donald Trump probably wouldn’t have had much success, so looking at present because he’s predicted to be a success this is breaking all established notions about a presidential campaign so his response was we were able to sort of pick it up but we definitely learned our lesson now he refuses to make predictions now and he’s only going to report on what’s currently happening and not only things that are going to happen because it’s most likely wrong at this point, but that was very interesting .
B: What are your future plans ?
K: Well I’m going to be going to Roger Williams University and majoring in critical science and minoring in history and definitely going to a law school after either staying there at Roger Williams , they have a law school program or maybe going somewhere in Boston. That’s what I want to do immediately , I plan on keep working on what I do, I’m a page at the state house of rhode island so kinda an assistant to the state senators and I’ll probably volunteer for campaigns and after college I definitely plan on being involved in working for the government and perhaps pursuing a career in public service whether its elected office or not .
B: Do you have any scholarships towards colleges ?
K: Well the United States Senate Program offered a 10,000 dollar scholarship that came with part of the program, it was originally 5,000 dollars but they doubled it as a surprise , we were presented that on the opening night dinner that it got doubled so that was pretty crazy but besides that I’m getting around 14,000 dollars a year from Roger Williams so that’s pretty decent and then I’ve applied to a couple other scholarships but I haven’t heard back from them yet so around 14,000 a year and 10,000 dollar scholarship is a one time thing but that’s still pretty decent , it definitely will help start off the year.
Breanna; You recently went to D.C. ?
Keith: Yes
B: Why did you go there?
K: I was selected as part of the United States Senate Youth Program which is this organization created and sponsored by The Hearst Foundation and they select two students each year from each state as well as two students from D.C. and two students from military schools from around the world such as army base schools, so 104 kids every year to go to D.C. and participate in interactive learning about the government and interactive experience about the government. You get to listen to guest speakers and tour the city and it’s supposed to encourage us because we all got in based on our resume already being interested in politics it’s to encourage us to seek public service careers whether that be in elected office or just working for the federal government.
B: Who did you go there with from Rhode Island, did you know that person?
K: We met and bonded a lot on the trip, Zach Johnson who is a student down in East Greenwich.
B: Tell us about the visit to the White House.
K: They brought us in the east wing which is the public area, where they do tours but they brought us up to the more private part of the east wing, the part that connects to the rest of the White House.
B: Did you end up meeting the president?
K: And yes they had us line up and the president came down the hallway and it was pretty crazy because they have the columns on the side and if you’ve ever seen when they announced Bin Laden had been killed, when he walks down the hallway to the podium, we were basically where the podium was in the back and he comes around and down the hallway.
B: So, you got to meet him?
K: Well, not personally, he came and he talked to us, he gave his own introduction and he took pictures with us but then he took questions. My question wasn’t selected because he went boy, girl, boy, girl, and then he left because he’s a busy man but he took quite a few questions and he talked for over an hour, like an hour and ten minutes, which is the most, the longest he’s ever done for the program, and he has very interesting answers including unlimited donations to politicians he’d like to get rid of that to get money out of politics. He would also like to institute mandatory voting which I thought was interesting, like in today’s America the idea is that you have to go out of your way to sign up to vote, he thinks it should be the other way around and you should have to vote and if you want to not vote you can go out of your way to opt out to vote if you really don’t want to participate. As a student in this country, as a citizen, your responsibility should be to to vote and perhaps that would make us more informed and if you’re going to vote you would want to know about what you’re voting for, so those are some of his ideas on how to improve.
B: What were some of the questions that you were being asked?
K: Just like what would you do if you could go back in time and change the Constitution and that kind of stuff. A lot of the questions for a lot of the speakers were very specific to the speaker, for example, we also met Supreme Court Justice Ruth… So a lot of questions were about her career leading up to being a Supreme Court Justice and we met a judge who was a former alumni from the youth program, he's a former judge and now he’s the president of Oklahoma City University, Robert Henry, and so we asked a lot about his career accomplishments and his opinions on constitutional issues and traveling to D.C. It was a great experience because you got to go into the State Department so we got to see the diplomatic rooms where they bring diplomats and ambassadors where the government has special parties and it was amazingly decorated--all these original portraits and all that stuff. It’s like a museum in there, we were actually sitting in the same place listening to our speaker because you had a speaker usually with every meal and that was where the prime minister and president were the day before because he was currently visiting during the week. In fact a bunch of us actually saw the Canadian Prime Minister, he was walking towards us at the same time we were and they made us go off to the side while he walked by and he was with his security that was cool.
B: If you could do it again, would you?
K: Yeah, with the same people we forged such a close bond, we all went to bed around 10:30, supposedly, that's when they told us to but there was a lot of sneaking around with the security guards so really everyone was running on like four hours of sleep every night and then we would get up early in the morning because we had a packed schedule and everyday it was just constantly being with everybody. Everyone is so intellectual and so dedicated to what they believe in. It was a great discussion and a great bonding experience especially since we mostly knew each other already because we reached out through social media and we had a group chat, we managed to get all 104 of us in before the second to last day before the trip so it was cool to meet everyone in person, we definitely had a strong bond. I would definitely do it again and spend more time with each other, the whole last day no one even went to sleep because we had to pack our bags and they collected them in at midnight and then they wouldn't let us go back to our room after they collected our bags because the first bus left to the airport at like 3:30 in the morning so it was just the nonstop, having a good time down in the hotel ballrooms but it was great, I think I made some lifelong connections with some people.
B: Are you going reach out to those people even after?
K: Yeah the group chat is still rocking right now, everyone's talking about the great time everyone had.
B: Do you think you guys are going to meet up through the group chat again?
K: Yes, there's already a new plan for a regional reunion like in Boston on a so and so day, people who are there are going to show up and that kind of thing. The program is a strong alumni association where they meet yearly from all different years so we all have plans to join that organization and take part in it with the yearly meetings and all that stuff .
B: How long was your flight to D.C. ?
K: It was about an hour and a half flight, an hour and a half there and the same time back. Definitely better than the people who have to come from like Alaska and the kids that had to come from Japan and South Korea who were from the two military schools that got selected, they had to come quite a way. It was great to meet all these people from all over and across the country and to be able to say you have friends in California and Alaska and Michigan and all these different places. So basically during this week we would get up around 6 or 7, one time we were lucky we didn't have to get up till 8 and this was the same time we'd be going to school and be going to bed around 1 or 2 so you get up and you're feeling pretty groggy but there was a breakfast buffet everyday! It was all expenses paid, five-star hotel , it was the Mayflower Hotel which is where the Canadian prime minister was staying. so it's funny that we saw him at a random place and not at the hotel but so we had a breakfast buffet and by then I'm usually up with the two cups of coffee I got. We would eat and on a few days there would be a speaker right after breakfast or we'd head out right after that to go to either a monument or a memorial or just some building that we were touring and usually there we would hear from a few speakers, including a speaker we would have after lunch. And then we’d have a little time at the hotel before dinner or we’d kinda chill out and then we’d have a dinner speaker and then after that we’d have the night up until we had to be in our rooms to ourselves then that was at the end of the day and we’d usually be using google hang out to be communicating down the hall.
B: So you guys pretty much stayed on the go all the days you were there?
K: Yes, we definitely had a tight schedule we hit everything on it, it was a great experience, literally every hour we were doing something whether it was touring the Jefferson Memorial or whether it was going to the Anderson House and meeting the different officials there including the ambassador from Germany. It was interesting to hear his perspective as a foreign government official being in America working to get American help or going to NASA. We went to the NASA Space Park where they’re building a new telescope to kind of replace the Hubble Telescope so that was very interesting to hear about their perspective on public policy because they definitely care about technological innovation and investing in common change so we heard about a lot of different issues and a lot of different people definitely kind of expanded my idea of what you could definitely do about public service because everyone who works for the government is a public service which is a career I’d like to be involved with definitely, all of us would.
B: Do you remember some of the speakers’ names ?
K: Yes, besides the ones I’ve already mentioned, we heard from I believe his name is Jack … you could probably google him but he’s the executive director of the Society of the Cincinnati which is like a society made up of all the … it was made back during the time of the American Revolution, the officers, the American Army, and it’s all their senates, like the people that were in it today are directly descendents from the people who were originally joined, that’s the only way you could be in it and it’s preserving the Founding Fathers documents, letters, and memorials, and that kind of stuff. And this guy is a descendant, he talked about American exceptionalism and America's place in the world this is a historian, so that was a very interesting speech, Peter Widdig, the ambassador from germany, he gave a good speech, John Kirby, the assistant secretary of state for public certifications, basically he’s the secretary of state, John Kerry’s press secretary so he gives daily press briefing so he talked all about what that job was like and then answered questions on all state departments, I asked a few, I got a couple questions in for a few different speakers, including him and Jonathan Kephart, one of the breakfast speakers I think on Wednesday and he’s a reporter and opinion writer for the Washington Post so he gave his opinion on the presidential election and it was great to get his insight as someone who reports on that for a living and one of the highlights was Brian Lamb , the founder of C Spin which is the channel that provides direct coverage on congress and politics and live footage of the senate, they air documentaries, it’s public news service although the government and what they do, the founder of C Spin came and he interviewed us, like it was a live broadcast where we had got to ask him questions on what he did and he would walk around and interview us and all our experiences and that’ll be airing in a few weeks that was a great experience just everything was so amazing and intense .
B: What are some of the questions you asked to some of the speakers?
K: I asked Mr. Kirby, about what the policy the state department had for Syria based on the president with stained power because the Syrian civil war was being currently negotiated on going in on that war America is heavily involved in and the question is for the president who has committed innumerable atrocities against his own people what his placements cause the American policy is that he needs to step down as president but the international policy is that he should probably face trials for war crimes but that’s obviously something he would not prefer to do and the question is where do you leave all this when you’re facing international punishment for what he’s done so the question is would we be willing to trade or punish you if you leave office as president so I asked is that the kind of compromise that America would look into, is it basically letting the dictator off for what he’s done and he answered that, the policy is still developing but as long as Asad is out of power he does not imagine there won’t be any kind of international punishment he will face the kind of punishment he deserves whether it’s from the united states or whether it’s from somebody else , I asked Mr. Kephart, the journalist, about his opinion on how the media was so slow to pick up on the Donald Trump phenomenon, he’s originally written off as a joke and now at this point he’s likely to become their President Nominee so how is the establishment, how are they slowed to pick up on this trend the elector wanted someone loud at the anti- Obama if you would, you know he’s much more of an intellectual and he responded that the only way to look at presidential campaigns is through the prism of what has already happened , like you won’t know what happens in the future all you can go by is what has gone by and if this were any other election Donald Trump probably wouldn’t have had much success, so looking at present because he’s predicted to be a success this is breaking all established notions about a presidential campaign so his response was we were able to sort of pick it up but we definitely learned our lesson now he refuses to make predictions now and he’s only going to report on what’s currently happening and not only things that are going to happen because it’s most likely wrong at this point, but that was very interesting .
B: What are your future plans ?
K: Well I’m going to be going to Roger Williams University and majoring in critical science and minoring in history and definitely going to a law school after either staying there at Roger Williams , they have a law school program or maybe going somewhere in Boston. That’s what I want to do immediately , I plan on keep working on what I do, I’m a page at the state house of rhode island so kinda an assistant to the state senators and I’ll probably volunteer for campaigns and after college I definitely plan on being involved in working for the government and perhaps pursuing a career in public service whether its elected office or not .
B: Do you have any scholarships towards colleges ?
K: Well the United States Senate Program offered a 10,000 dollar scholarship that came with part of the program, it was originally 5,000 dollars but they doubled it as a surprise , we were presented that on the opening night dinner that it got doubled so that was pretty crazy but besides that I’m getting around 14,000 dollars a year from Roger Williams so that’s pretty decent and then I’ve applied to a couple other scholarships but I haven’t heard back from them yet so around 14,000 a year and 10,000 dollar scholarship is a one time thing but that’s still pretty decent , it definitely will help start off the year.
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El Bullying No Es Un Juego de Ninos
El acoso escolar, tambien conocido como bullying, es cualquier forma de maltrato fisico psicologico y verbal, estadisticamente, el tipo de violencia dominante es emocional y se da mayoritariamente en las aulas y pasillos de los centros educativos.
El bullying se da mas entre ninas y ninos ya casi enfrentando a la adolescencia y mas frecuente ques se de el tipo de maltrato a las mujeres.
Existen diferentes tipos de bullying; un de ellos es el que se vive mas en las escuelas la exclusion social que es el rechazo por parte de grupos de amigos, companeros de clase en algunos casos se da en la misma familia.
Algunos ejemplos de esto son:
*cuando se excluye a la persona de jugar en grupo, participar en algun tipo de evento por ejemplo en la escuela; otro ejemplo puede ser cuando se tiene un trabajo de escuela en grupo y se excluye a individuo, estos ejemplos solo son algunos de muchos que se lo pueden presenciar en la escuela.
La causas de este tipo de bulling no se debe a que el agresor tenga algun problema mental o trastorno de la personalidad, fundamentalmente, presenta ausencia de empatia y algun tipo de distorsion cognitiva. La carencia de empatia explica su incapacidad para ponerse en el lugar del acosado y ser insensible al sufrimiento de este.
En base a la escuela la responsabilidad al respecto oscilla entre la figura de que algunos profesores no han recibido una formacion especifica en cuestiones de intermediacion en situaciones escolares conflictiva, y la disminucion de su perfil de autoridad dentro de la sociedad actual.
Las consecuencias de la exclusion social puede dejar secuelas biologicas y mentales, las victimas acosadas son mas vulnerables a padecer problemas mentales como trastorno por estres postraumatico, depresion y trastornos del animo a medida que envejecen.
*Las medidas de prevencion son las siguientes;
Escrito por Noemi Balderas
El bullying se da mas entre ninas y ninos ya casi enfrentando a la adolescencia y mas frecuente ques se de el tipo de maltrato a las mujeres.
Existen diferentes tipos de bullying; un de ellos es el que se vive mas en las escuelas la exclusion social que es el rechazo por parte de grupos de amigos, companeros de clase en algunos casos se da en la misma familia.
Algunos ejemplos de esto son:
*cuando se excluye a la persona de jugar en grupo, participar en algun tipo de evento por ejemplo en la escuela; otro ejemplo puede ser cuando se tiene un trabajo de escuela en grupo y se excluye a individuo, estos ejemplos solo son algunos de muchos que se lo pueden presenciar en la escuela.
La causas de este tipo de bulling no se debe a que el agresor tenga algun problema mental o trastorno de la personalidad, fundamentalmente, presenta ausencia de empatia y algun tipo de distorsion cognitiva. La carencia de empatia explica su incapacidad para ponerse en el lugar del acosado y ser insensible al sufrimiento de este.
En base a la escuela la responsabilidad al respecto oscilla entre la figura de que algunos profesores no han recibido una formacion especifica en cuestiones de intermediacion en situaciones escolares conflictiva, y la disminucion de su perfil de autoridad dentro de la sociedad actual.
Las consecuencias de la exclusion social puede dejar secuelas biologicas y mentales, las victimas acosadas son mas vulnerables a padecer problemas mentales como trastorno por estres postraumatico, depresion y trastornos del animo a medida que envejecen.
*Las medidas de prevencion son las siguientes;
- *Hablar con alguien mayor que pueda ayudarles.
- *No responder con agresion ya que esto empeorara las cosas.
- *Padres o maestros tomar cartas en el asunto ya que este tipo de acoso puede llevar al individuo a la muerte.
Escrito por Noemi Balderas
Bullying is Not a Children's Game
School aggression, also known as bullying, is any form of physical, psychological and/or verbal cruelty.
The dominant type of violence is emotional and takes place primarily in classrooms and hallways of educational facilities.
Bullying takes place mostly between boys and girls and is more common than the type that results in the mistreatment of women.
Different types of bullying exist, one of them found in schools results in the social rejection of students by classmates and frequently by family members.
*Some examples of these are:
When a person is excluded from playing in a group; participating in a school event; or taking part in a group learning activity.
The causes of this type of bullying do not suggest that the aggressor has a mental problem or a personality disorder, fundamentally, it reveals an absence of empathy and some form of cognitive distortion.
The absence of empathy explains one's incapacity to put himself in the place of the victim and to be insensitive to another person's suffering.
The problem can be exacerbated when some teachers have not received specific training in matters of intervention in situations of school conflict and the diminution of their authority in the school environment.
The consequences of social exclusion can produce physical and mental scars; the accosted victims are more vulnerable to emotional problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and sadness.
The means of prevention are as follows:
1. Speaking to an older person who can offer help.
2. Not responding with aggressive behavior which can make matters worse.
3. Parents or teachers taking a hand in the situation before the victim is desperate or even suicidal.
*If one receives a threat through the Internet or other electronic media, immediate action should be taken to prevent further verbal attacks.
Written by Noemi Balderas
Translated by Mr. Peckham
The dominant type of violence is emotional and takes place primarily in classrooms and hallways of educational facilities.
Bullying takes place mostly between boys and girls and is more common than the type that results in the mistreatment of women.
Different types of bullying exist, one of them found in schools results in the social rejection of students by classmates and frequently by family members.
*Some examples of these are:
When a person is excluded from playing in a group; participating in a school event; or taking part in a group learning activity.
The causes of this type of bullying do not suggest that the aggressor has a mental problem or a personality disorder, fundamentally, it reveals an absence of empathy and some form of cognitive distortion.
The absence of empathy explains one's incapacity to put himself in the place of the victim and to be insensitive to another person's suffering.
The problem can be exacerbated when some teachers have not received specific training in matters of intervention in situations of school conflict and the diminution of their authority in the school environment.
The consequences of social exclusion can produce physical and mental scars; the accosted victims are more vulnerable to emotional problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and sadness.
The means of prevention are as follows:
1. Speaking to an older person who can offer help.
2. Not responding with aggressive behavior which can make matters worse.
3. Parents or teachers taking a hand in the situation before the victim is desperate or even suicidal.
*If one receives a threat through the Internet or other electronic media, immediate action should be taken to prevent further verbal attacks.
Written by Noemi Balderas
Translated by Mr. Peckham