Dean Larges

I wondered one of my former learners who was considered to be a bully when he was in my comp eaches as a student in s stock-stillth and 8th grade. The young mans name is doyen Larges. When doyen was in my animal(prenominal) education classroom I had to constantly stand on him roughly his deportment towards other students. He would non solo verbally abuse students still on occasion would get into physical altercations with some of his classmates. Recently Dean has come back to the area as a parole officer. I asked him if he was willing to be interviewed about his past behaviors during pith develop. We sat down on a few occasions and talked about his past behaviors and actions. I withal talked to him about the ending to work in the courts and nurtures with our trouble youth. The first thing we discussed during the interview was the milieu in which he grew up. Dean was raised in a familiar middle class family.When he was in the 6th grade, which is the year forwards he attended the middle school that I work in, his parents dissociated. He grew up with a brother who was four years older than him. Dean admittedly utter that when his parents divorced, it was a changing point in his behavior. In his memory up to that point he did not consider himself to be a bully. He remembers being very happy while his parents were fluent married. He felt a lot of anger over the divorce and did not talk to either of his parents about it. He felt that the rules were disparate from house to house which confused him at a young get on concerning rules. He feels now that his blustery increased as a guidance to fill the void of not having both of his parents well-nigh. He state during middle school most of the attention that he received from the bullying was positive from his peers.Looking back he realized that he deemed the express mirth from his peers to be positive but more than likely they were just assay to appease him so he wouldnt bully them. He was fair ly grand for his age which made it more difficult for students to stand up to his bullying. By nature Dean was and still is very outgoing. This combined with his vulturous behavior and the anger he felt at this time was not a good combination. He had al agencys been involved in sports and was aggressive but up until this point not overly aggressive with his classmates. He had a real problem not entranceing his dad on a daily basis. He feels that he derailed to take this anger out on his classmates and at quantify his teammates in the various sports that he was playing.Many of his coaches specially in football encouraged or rewarded the aggressive behavior so in his mind they were condoning it. He felt that this was one of the reasons the behavior started to increase, as he was being rewarded for it. When he got to middle school he had more freedom and more time to act out. When Dean first came to middle school he was not in my physical education class but he was in the gym and the locker room during an time of day where I also taught a class. I had to deal with him multiple times either for being too aggressive or for verbally abusing students. He was always very apologetic after the fact but continue with his behavior. He was suspended from school once or twice collect to bullying/fighting in other classes during his 6th grade year.His 7th grade year he was in my class and after the start of the year his behavior was better, at least in my class. He seemed to stomach more issues in classrooms with female teachers. We talked about this and he give tongue to that his moms rules were not very strict compared to his dads so this was probably the reason for his omit of look upon for female teachers. He claims that as he moved into high school his bullying behavior slowed and eventually stopped as he started to see that his parents divorce was actually a good thing for them. Both of his parents seemed to be happier now that they were divorced. Dean felt part of it was also just developing up and seeing the effects that his bullying behaviors had on his fellow students. During our interview we discussed if his mother or father were verbally or physically aggressive or abusive. Dean said that both of his parents were very loving and not abusive at all.I do not feel that any genetic work outs played much if any of a role in Dean being a bully. Dean and his older brother also had a good relationship. They played sports together and were fairly close even with the four year age difference. Dean felt that another factor at this age was that he started seeing less of his brother. His brother started drive and was playing different sports so he was not around as much as he had been. There were many sources that influenced the changes and or lack of changes in Deans behavior. As I discussed earlier his parents divorce had a huge influence. Another factor that had influence was the changing of schools from elementary to middle school an d the extra freedom that came with that. In talking to Dean he said that a man-sized factor in changing his behavior were a few male teachers and coaches.One in particular made a strong impact on helping to stop his bullying. He said that his junior varsity football coach played a big role in teaching him how to act properly and held him to a higher(prenominal) standard of behavior. This particular coach was also his U.S. History teacher so he spent quite a bit of time around him.This teacher/coach helped him to get a line why treating bulk, including classmates and teammates with respect is an important lifespan skill. The last topic we discussed was how we can get through to young people so that we can stop the bullying. In Deans opinion and I agree, we contract to continue as adults to take the time to get to know students and understand their individual situations. Once you have a better understanding of whats disaster in their lives you can figure out a better way to stop the bullying. His past behavior and the belief that he could help troubled youth turn their lives around was the main reason that he chose the passage that he did.