Choose one of these issues to research: bullying hunger choose one of these formats for your presentation: letter to a newspaper editor slideshow presentation your presentation should address all the following questions: what is your chosen issue? why is this issue a problem in your state or local area? what government agencies and citizen groups would likely address the issue? what is the ultimate goal to address this issue? (in other words, how will you know the problem is solved? ) what are the public policy alternatives to address the issue? what is one positive and one negative outcome for each possible policy alternative? what is the best plan to get the policy enacted? how can citizens get involved to enact the policy? '

What is your chosen issue? My chosen issue is bullying.

Why is this issue a problem in your state or local area ? Bullying in many countries is a big problem. In Peru statistics are not so clear but when you read the news you notice that number of students beiing bullied is increasing. This goes from physical agressions to insults. Fortunately there is awareness of the problem and most of the people know that has to be stopped.

What government agencies and citizen groups would likely to address this issue?

There are many things that can be done for example parents, school staff, and other adults in the community can help children prevent bullying by talking about it. Also, it is a good idea to build a safe school environment, and create a community-wide bullying prevention strategy.

What is the ultimate goal to address the issue? The ultimate goal must be zero bullying and to do that it is necessary team work I mean parents, authorities, the school system must be involved and to know that the problem is solved it is important to use statistics to monitor the issue.

What are the public policy alternatives to address the issue? The public alternatives are working very hard in creating a strategy to overcome the problem. The strategy can be designed to give psychological help to the victims and to give lectures in schools and also to monitor the problem with statistics.

What is one positive outcome  and one negative outcome for each possible policy alternative?

One positive alternative is that the strategy ends up solving the problem one negative alternative is that victims probably end up having psychologycal problems or maybe phisical injuries if bullying is not attacked with a good strategy.

What is the best plan to get the policy enacted?

It has to be team work, I mean eveybody has to be involved and it has to be a good strategy for the short and the long run.

How can citizens get involved to help enact the policy? Parents, children and aurhorities must create awareness that a problem like this exist and must be solved.

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