Bullying part 2

So to begin this post off I decided to show some statistics. 1 out of 4 kids are bullied. In a recent study 77% of the kids were bullied physically,mentally, and verbally. 1 out of 5 said that they were bullies or did bullying of some kind at some point. 8% of students miss one class per month due to being scared of being bullied. Playground statistics- Every 7 minutes a child is bullied. Adult Intervention -4%. Peer Intervention -11% No intervention-85%.

These statistics go on and on. Students everywhere have to wake up in the morning and go to school worrying about who is going to beat them up, who will make fun of their hair, shoes, clothes, or whatever that person decides. Some students live in constant fear of being attacked by someone around them. My question to that is what kind of effect is this going to have on those kids? Being in constant fear, unable to feel welcomed or unable to belong to something would not be pleasant. In fact it would go past that to be downright unbearable. Most of the time you will hear stories about people only being bullied about one thing, maybe they had an embarassing fall and everyone saw, they may be laughed at for a little while but eventually people forget. But what about those kids that are bullied everyday? What do they do? How do they live?

Those people have to feel so insignificant, so separated from the rest of their classmates and their peers. I for one know that feeling inferior to someone is not fun and makes for less self esteem or confidence in  your abilities. The feeling of inferiority can make someone doubt their abilities about something they should be able to do with no problem.

There have been laws, and riots, and protests against racial bullying and racism, yet in schools all across America and across many other schools in the world bullying still exists. I remember being that age and thinking that you couldnt tell your parents or you couldn't tell a teacher because they would call that kid's parents or tell the principal which never helped because once the bully got in trouble, you felt more of the pain. Honestly those kids were right, it is hard to tell on a bully, because the system for dealing with them does nothing. That system does not help whatsoever. So what is a kid to do when they feel desperate and feel alone because of bullying? That situation doesn't leave much room for safety in a child's life.

Now in today's society with the booming technology with more and more people having cell phones that get the internet, that have the ability to have emails sent to their phone and a connection to social websites like facebook without needing a computer, information spreads quickly. Before it used to be that the school building and area around it was the only danger from bullies. Today that isn't even where most of the bullying takes place. The internet has spawned a bullying beyond what it used to be. It has spawned something that can create a falsehood, spread it within minutes to hundreds of people, and do it all anonymously because it doesn't have to be face to face anymore. What does this mean to those who fall on the lower end of the social network? It means utter humiliation not just in school but outside of it and with the ability of spreading something untrue and reputation destroying so much faster than before.

Bullying is not something to take lightly, in can have tremendous effects on someone all the way through adulthood. Many people assume that bullying at grade school age is normal, its a rite of passage almost, everyonse has it happen to them and it is just the norm. What I say to that is why does it have to be the norm? Why is that ever okay to let people make judgements about someone because they are different or because they can? There is no benefit by someone being beaten up or emotionally abused by someone, there is never and will never be a good outcome of bullying or abuse. So my question to America is why haven't we done more to help the youth of this country? Why don't we try to stop it to change the views because at those ages we have the ability to mold their future habits, and if we let it happen when they are little, they will only learn to do the same thing to adults as they continue to get older.