This article was an article that I found on a PBS website. PBS stands for Public Broadcasting Service. This article talks about bullying and how it affects a child. The article states that bullying can be physical or mental and can be exhibited by an individual or a group of people. Something that I found extremely interesting within this article is that "classic bullying" which refers to child-on-child bullying is not common and the article states that it normally happens in "cliques"; where a group of children gang up against one child. The article goes on to to explain that girls often are involved in "indirect bullying" which means that girls do not bully their victims to their faces but rather start insidious rumors behind the other persons back. In comparison, boys often bully and "name-call" directly. A common type of bullying that takes place in many schools is boys being called "gay" or little girls being called "lesbians" due to them being different. Children this age do not know what they are calling each other when calling their peers lesbian or gays but associate these terms with "loser" or being different. Lawrence Cohen, Ph.D writes, “Most kids who are cruel to others are not physically big and tough kids. Instead, they often are super-popular students who wield power malevolently, or who influence bigger ‘bullies’ to pick on social outcasts. Many bullies are picked on a lot themselves and take this out on others, so the same child is both a victim and a perpetrator.” Basically what Dr. Cohen is writing is that bullies are products of bullying.
Genre: Web Site Article
Topics: Bullying Girls vs Boys, Causes/Results of Bullying, Perpetrators of Bullying
Rhetorical Strategies:
-Audience: Parents of Children/ Public (adults)
-Purpose: To inform about causes of bullying and bullying in general
-Context: Bullying in schools
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