6 pages in length. The writer provides a brief overview of a school safety situation and provides an alternative solution to the way in which it should have been handled. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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from one foster home to another - decides he does not like the way Lester - an African-American fifteen-year-old whose only male role models have been the many boyfriends his
mother brings home - combs his hair or the style of clothes he wears. To show his disapproval, Hector begins to taunt and annoy Lester at every chance meeting
the two boys encounter, even if Hector has to purposely go out of his way to be in the same place. Nothing is done by other students to try
to defuse the situation, because Hector is a big man on campus who is feared and revered by all others at school. The circumstances soon get so out of
control that Lester finds himself not only avoiding Hector at every cost, but he has also started skipping class in an extreme effort to escape the mounting persecution. The
extent to which Hector was punished for his bullying amounted to a 2-day suspension, a disciplinary approach many consider to have a questionable - if not wholly ineffective - impact
upon the wrongdoer (Childrens Defense Fund, 1975). School violence has long been an issue between cultural power play as much as it has
been an issue of adolescent angst, with childhood bullying often a precursor to the vicious cycle. In this particular case, the Latino students who instigate the bullying upon their
African-American classmates are oftentimes from broken homes where proper moral and ethical values were not instilled; others, however, have emotional and/or mental disorders that preclude them from assimilating into their
respective peer groups. The detrimental aspect of bullying - "where a child or group of children keep taking advantage of the power they have to hurt or reject someone