Tyler Mendoza
Laura Long
English 10
12/8/16
The Worst Problem In The World
You come home exhausted and depressed. Another horrible day you have gone through full of older and bigger kids giving you a hard time. It’s your first year of high school. You’re smaller than most kids and not as strong. In middle school everyone just left you alone but now there are way more people around and everyone is different. For fun, other kids pick on you about your clothes, looks and personality. The bullying happens every day of the week. You come home after school every day and don’t talk to your parents or siblings. They realize you are depressed and they also get affected negatively. They miss spending time with you and they hate seeing you not enjoying life. This is not their usual child. You are embarrassed and frightened about what may happen to you if you do open up to your parents or anyone else about the situation because you are afraid of the consequences. It seems that the bullying is affecting everyone around you. And unless you or someone else stands up to the bullying, it doesn’t get any better.
We see the affects of bullying take place in many different ways. Bullying is a very major problem because by bullying one person you can affect the family of the victim, friends of the victim and even yourself. If the parents or the friends see the sadness in the kid and how different he is acting because they are getting bullied they will feel sad and hurt that their kid or friend is being harassed and they can not do much about it. When someone is getting bullied they start to act different around parents or close ones to cover up the emotion that you are feeling. They will notice this happening and they will feel depressed that someone is changing you. A lot of the times when someone is getting bullied harshly and it doesn’t get any better, the bullied victim can take their own life to get away from the constant pain. If this happens then everyone around the victim is negatively affected. The people that cared deeply about the victim like family or close friends may want to commit suicide as well because of losing a loved one. The bully will also be affected if the victim harms them selve. Everyone will turn on the bully because of what he caused. The bully will also regret bullying and feel horrible about what he caused. Sometimes the bully will take their own life because of regret. If you cause a death when you know you didn’t have to, your life will never be the same. There is also a chance that you can go to prison for murder if the information gets out about you being the reason for the suicide. Bullying always causes major problems for multiple people. Always think of the deeper meaning of something. Before bullying someone, remember how many people you can affect by doing so.
By looking at the statistics recorded about bullying in schools, we need to understand how impact full and widespread bullying really is. One school reported that 64% percent of children who were bullied did not report it. Only 36% of the students reported the bullying. This shows that the kids were more than likely being brutally bullied because if 64% of the students that were being bullied did not report anything than they were likely to frightened to report the bullying. They could have thought that by reporting the bullying that would get them bullied even more. If a bully got in trouble because someone in the school told the staff about what was happening then the bully would automatically assume it was the victim of the bullying. This is the main reason that most people are afraid to speak up about bullying. People get bullied for a lot of different reasons. A lot of times bullying takes place when a person doesn’t like a certain quality in another person or just wants to make fun of another person for a certain quality. Some of the reasons for being bullied reported most often by students were looks (55%), body shape (37%), and race (16%). Bullying is very common around the US and other countries. People all around the world are getting treated poorly and disrespected every day multiple times a day for a quality that they are born with. Bullying is something that needs to be stopped in order for the world to become a better place.
It would be extremely difficult to completely end bullying worldwide as it occurs everywhere around the world, but the people of this world can come together and stop bullying. If you are being bullied, you need to speak up and tell someone about it. If you are not comfortable with telling the staff at your school or the police, talk to your parents or even the bullies parents. This way you can work it out and put a stop to the bullying without getting anybody in trouble. Tell them how you feel when they bully you and tell them that they have no reason to be making your life miserable. The bully will most likely want to stop the bullying because they realize that you don’t want them in any trouble and you want no harm towards them, you just want the bullying to stop. If the bullying continues even after talking to the parents or your parents, then you need to take the issue to your school staff or the police. They obviously have not learned anything from when you talked to their parents and have not tried to change. It is now a problem they have forced you to solve the hard way. Another way we can put a stop to bullying is by standing up for people who are getting bullied. If you witness someone getting bullied in your school, don’t be afraid to let the school staff know about this.The staff is not allowed to tell the bully who told them about the bullying. Wait until after school hours so nobody sees you going to the office. This could prevent your name from coming up in rumors about who told the staff. By speaking up, you can potentially save somebody’s life. Sometimes the person that is getting bullied is to afraid to speak up. Or they might not want to get the bully in trouble. This is why you need to take a stand and help the bullied child out. By speaking up about the bullying you can change lives. Don’t be afraid to speak up because if you don’t, the bullying will just get worse and worse. And if the kid that is getting bullied commits suicide or takes it into his own hands and causing a murder or a violent revenge, you will forever feel awful that you could’ve prevented something horrible from happening. Yes, bullying is a problem that seems to never slow down, but if more and more people all around the world came together and did whatever they could to help stop bullying, the problem will definitely reduce.
There is a section in The San Francisco Globe titled “This Guy Was Bullied. Read His Graduation Speech.” The section starts off with a freshman in high school named Kyle walking home from school one day and seeing a kid from the same school that he goes to walking on the opposite sidewalk with a large amount of books and binders in his hand. He witnesses the kid getting pushed to the ground and punched by multiple other kids. Kyle walked over to the bullied kid and helped him carry his books and binders to his house. They lived fairly close. The two kids bonded very well and Kyle asked him if he wanted to hang out with him and his friends. He accepted. Kyle's friends also liked the bullied kid. Kyle and the bullied kid developed a very good friendship over the 4 years of high school. On graduation day the bullied kid gives a speech about the first day he met his best friend Kyle. In the speech he says that he was planning to kill himself that weekend and he cleaned his locker out so his mom didn’t have to when he was dead. This is why he had all those books that day. “ Thankfully, I was saved. My friend saved me from doing the unspeakable.” There is no doubt that bullying is a major problem that seems to never stop happening. But together, the people of this world can help out to end bullying. Every chance you get, help someone out and speak up to help someone. Take just a little time from your day and go save somebody’s life! Don’t be the person that could have prevented someone from losing their life. Never be afraid to help somebody if they need it. If you are a good person, you will do something to prevent bullying from taking place just like Kyle did in the story. By speaking up and helping out with bullying you are a hero and you will never regret it.
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