The Golden Rule : Anti- Bullying

The Golden Rule Bullying has been in the news more lately than in the past, because of the tragedies that follow the torture and harassment of the young children in our country. Children have always been picked on in school but the extent that it has gone to in more recent years has become cause for very serious concern and extreme measures. The response to the increasing teen suicides and murders of bullied victims has been to implement the “No Tolerance Laws,” to launch the new “It Gets Better Campaign,” and the appearance of many new proposed laws that are currently being considered and unfortunately have not yet taken effect. Many of today’s bully victims include homosexual youth, minority youth in those states that still are intolerant of difference, and anyone that seems weaker than the bully and in turn appears to be an easy target. The bullying epidemic has become very controversial due to the fact that bulling continues to exist throughout adulthood and early occurrences do not always subside in childhood or adolescence. This creates the separation between non-bully adults, supportive or not of this initiative, previously bullied adults supportive or not of this initiative, and adult-bullies that see no wrong in the behaviors, and therefore see no need for any change or action. This bullying problem is normally ignored until the worst case scenario forces those around the incident to open their eyes and realize the possibilities for horror and tragedy. For example, Cyber bullying has received more public recognition in the recent years, but only after a very tragic incident caused attention to be brought to the fact that the terror of bullying is in fact not exaggerated but underrated if anything at all. “Cyber bullying has received enormous attention since the 2006 suicide of Megan Meier, an eighth grader [whose name became a household name] who was bullied on Myspace. The suicide of Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi - who jumped off the George

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