Erin Damiani EDU

      Bullying happens around us everyday in and out of school. Bullying can occur online or face to face as well. A person can be bullied physically or even verbally. Bullying is most definitely a known problem that occurs all around the world. It can be extremely harmful to children. As a future teacher there needs to be more awareness brought to bullying and ways we can stop it. After watching the movie "Bully" it was extremely heartbreaking to watch. Over 13 million American kids will be bullied at school, online, on the bus, at home, through their cellphones and right on their streets of their towns. The documentary starts with a father speaking about his son Tyler who committed suicide due to bullying. It also speaks about different children and their stories about bullying. A child named Cody who was being bullied was asked by the assistant principal how bullying made him feel and he stated "it breaks his heart". Bullying leads children to do harmful things w

                                                       In this world today school violence is an extremely important topic. There have been many school shootings like Sandy Hook in Connecticut and the most recent one Oxford High School in Michigan. The video Bowling for Columbine (Moore, 2002) was about a school shooting that occurred on April 20th, 1999. It really talks about gun control and really how easy it can be for one to grab and just have the access to a gun in parts of the United States. It really gives us insight on what happened in Colorado. The town had heavy amounts of trauma because of this shooting. It had caused so much pain. Moore has very much solid argument in this which is how the government is promoting capitalist interests over human lives. Moore also makes a point that the NRA is extremely heartless and how they had led pro gun rallies in right after the Columbine shooting. A question was "why do kids do this?" and it is believed that this happens beca

      After watching the film and reading the articles I have learned a lot and while learning I also made many connections to the previous module. It is important as future educators that we are accepting and make sure our students have a voice and are being accepted. While watching "The Laramie Project" I found it horrible to see how a student was tortured and left to dead because of his sexuality. This is an example of the issue with how many people do not accept others and how this needs to be changed. People should never be treated differently because of their sexuality or gender. It is important for students to be able to feel safe in their school and classroom. The article "Hate in Schools" states "Two main areas to focus on should be making sure kids who were targeted feel safe and delving into why the perpetrators of the bias incidents are acting that way"(Vara-Orta, 2018). It is extremely important as future educators we make sure our students ar