My point of view: Bullying

Bullying is so mean, and pointless. Why do we need to hurt other people to make us feel better? 

Thousands of kids are being bullied every day. 

Here is a list of a the different kinds of ways kids bully each other.

1. Physical bullying includes any physical contact that would hurt or injure a person like hitting, kicking, punching, etc. Taking something that belongs to someone else and destroying it would also be considered a type of physical bullying. For example, if someone was walking down the street and someone came up to them and shoved them to the ground, that would be physical bullying. In elementary and middle schools, 30.5% of all bullying is physical.

2. Verbal bullying is name-calling, making offensive remarks, or joking about a person's religion, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or the way they look. For example, if there was a group of kids who made fun of another kid because he couldn't run as fast as everyone else, it would be an example of verbal bullying. 46.5% of all bullying in schools is the verbal type. Verbal aggression is when a bully teases someone. It can also include a bully making verbal threats of violence or aggression against someone's personal property.

 

3. Indirect bullying includes spreading rumors or stories about someone, telling others about something that was told to you in private, and excluding others from groups. An example would be if you started a rumor that a boy in your class likes playing with dolls, and if the reason that you made up the story was because you thought it was funny. This would be indirect bullying. Indirect bullying accounts for 18.5% of all bullying.

4. Social alienation is when a bully excludes someone from a group on purpose. It also includes a bully spreading rumors, and also making fun of someone by pointing out their differences.

5. Intimidation is when a bully threatens someone else and frightens that person enough to make him or her do what the bully wants.

6. Cyberbullying is done by sending messages, pictures, or information using electronic media, computers (email & instant messages), or cell phones (text messaging & voicemail). For instance, if you sent a picture of a snake in an email to a person because you know that they are afraid of snakes, that would be an example of cyberbullying. According to a survey done in 2003 only 4% of bullying is listed as "other types" and this would include cyberbullying. Even though this number seems small, the growth of this type of bullying is going up fast because of the spread of technology around the world.

If  kids spent as much time being nice as they do being mean we would have fixed are bullying problem.

I don't get how being mean is fun. Kids are afraid to go back to school because they're being bullied so bad. How don't the teachers see whats happening? What happens to a child at this age, if they remember how they were bullied forever? They will grow up thinking they weren't good enough. They could even end up in a abusive relationship, with that person or someone else.

 If you think this is all fun and games... this effects kids for the rest of there life.

It's not just kids, it's adults too. The worse thing is if adults pick on little kids, maybe to help their kid to be the best or most popular. How sad is that? Adults are bullying little kids so their own kids can be popular. Adults do it to each other, and even to a groups of people. They will pick out one person and bully them until they think they're worth nothing. 

Here is a story of a girl that went through bullying:

  Bull[y]ing is the worst thing that someone can do. I have been getting bullied by older people starting from third grade, I am now in eighth. When I was in fourth grade no one liked me because my brother had committed suicide, they thought it was weird in a way. They didn't talk to me because they thought that I would be just like my brother. It hurt so bad just sitting in school not talking to anyone. People here in my new school make fun of me too. That reason is because I am a little over weight and I am not the prettiest looking girl.    

Some kids are scared of going back to school because they get picked on. People say that the amount of kids getting bullied are going down, FALSE. That is not true, it has gone majorly up. Maybe if the teachers would open their eyes and look and see what is happening in the halls and classrooms bullying could be prevented. I see kids everyday getting picked on and pushed around.

My brother had committed suicide because he didn't like his life. People made fun of him because he wasn't as fast of a learner as all of the other kids in his class. I thought my brother was the smartest kid I knew, but other people just didn't want to give him a chance to get to know him. Because of all these bullies, that is what it can lead up to sometimes. When my brother got bullied he felt like there was nothing worth living for. That's how a lot of kids feel.

Kids are committing suicide because of all the bullying. This has to stop! Kids aren't liked as much because they're not as skinny or pretty or strong as their peers around them. It's so sad that people live and go through this daily, and how it can effect the rest of their life.

You can also help those people who are going through bullying. If you see or hear someone being bullied, stand up for that person and put a stop to it. Tell the bully, that's not nice. Ask them if that's how they would like to be treated, and to stop. You could stop that person from being bullied, just by standing up for what's right. If you try that and it still continues, then tell an adult or teacher. 

Thanks for reading!
Beka