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Bullying is a child’s
worst nightmare, a child’s worst fear.
Bullying is common in schools now-a-days, and has always been
present. It is common in many students lives at school. No
matter what you wear or where you come from,ect. certain people
will naturally be a target for bullies.
WindyRidge has it’s popular and non-popular
groups. It’s bullies and it’s victims. Though there
is The Bully Prevention Program, it still doesn’t and
never will stop bullying. Many serious cases this year have
occurred, and none have seen the truth. WindyRidge is a small
school, like a small town, where everyone knows everything
about you, even though most of it is not true. When rumors
go around, just like at every other school, it usually starts
with collusion. Collusion is when someone in the group starts
bullying its victim and the bullier wants one of it’s
buddies to join in on the bullying. The buddy doesn’t
think it is a good idea but still goes along with it because
the buddy doesn’t want to loose their reputation or their
friends.
This is what happens at Windyridge. The
popular or well liked kids pick on or bully the kids that
are known to be different or are not like themselves. Then
they start by simply looking at them funny or looking at them
and whispering hateful and cruel things to their group. Usually
one of the kids in the group were one of victims at one point
and understand what they’re going through, and usually
one of the victims used to be their friend. For the sake of
being popular or well liked, they go along with their group
in the bullying not caring or recognizing how much they have
hurt the victim(s).
In writing this I feel one way that I can
help our school to be a collusion-free school is, not going
along with this behavior and teaching every student to be
aware of the consequences of bullying.
Being bullied is very tragic especially
when it repeatedly happens even after being addressed.. This
may lead up to self mutilation, suicide and or school shootings.
Many students after being bullied so many times end up being
the bad students, the misunderstood ones, the crazy ones.
My theory on all school shootings and incidents
is that if you just listen to what the victims are screaming
out, then you’ll understand what is going on inside the
victims heads and can prevent what is about to happen. Not
listening to what the victims are saying or just strictly
judging them or stereo-typing them is just as bad as bullying
them. In many cases like the famous Columbine incident, the
students were bullied, stereo-typed and tormented at school.
This as many specialists have said led up to the Columbine
shooting, though what the students did was so very wrong it
still proves a point. I believe there was a way this tragedy
could have been prevented by more effective communication
between the perpetrators and their parents and teachers.
By saying this I will help and befriend
someone in need because of bullying and will listen to what
they have to say.
You can never stop bullying, even if you’re
an adult and or a child or even the President of the United
States. It will always surround you, everywhere you go and
every place you see. Bullying is something to make you feel
powerful and stronger than the person you are bullying, and
for the slight second you bully you feel like all your troubles
are gone and the victim has taken them in. It is an addiction
and a cruel one at that. You will see a form of bullying on
TV and even cartoons and commercials. The advertisers want
you to think, for example, if you don’t wear Hollister
or Nike then you’re not in or cool so then you are basically
bullied to dress like that and not be yourself so you can
be in and not bullied when really you are. On the cartoon
Batman and Robin, they fight and save the world from the bad
guy and really the bad guy, when younger wanted to be a part
of their team but couldn’t because he wasn’t strong
enough or fast enough or even smart enough, so he became the
bad guy for revenge.
I am writing this with the intention to
help our school be bully-free and I for one, will never bully
anyone.
Bullying will always happen and can never be stopped but it
can prevented. By vowing to yourself, to never be a bullier,
and by vowing to yourself to never be a victim, and by always
standing up for yourself, in a mature way, you can help stop
bullying.
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