It is proven that there are 3.2 million students in the
world that are bullied each year. Bullying is a very big problem now days, and
is overlooked by many people around the world. Bullying isn’t always physical;
it could be verbal harassment too. Verbal harassment is one of the main types
of bullying with today’s high school students. Every year it is getting worse,
and more and more students are starting to think it is okay. Our kids need to
start taking a stand against bullying and help to control what is happening
around them. I think that if enough people started working together to stop it,
it can end once and for all.
The act of bullying is very unnecessary. It usually tends
to occur when the offender is having problems in their own life and needs some
way to let it escape, or if they think that bullying will make them “cool”.
While they do that, it is causing innocent people to feel horrible. The phrase
“Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” isn’t the
truth. Words can be extremely harmful. Being bullied is very traumatizing for
the victim, and most of the time it will make them feel like they are worth
nothing and that there is no one there to help them. There is about 4,400 children
that die from bullying each year because they don’t speak up. The bully makes
the victim feel weak, like they can’t even stand up for themselves. Eventually
the victim will start believing that they aren’t worth it and they will stay silent.
It is proven that children that are bullied before ninth grade end up taking a
part in some type of crime by the age of 24. Bullying can also cause health
problems such as depression, and also low self-esteem. It seems like in the
future, bullying is only going to get worse. Not enough people are trying to
stop it. The number of kids dying because of being bullied is only going to
increase within the next 10 years and that will also lead to more crime in the
world.
One of the many solutions that people around the world
believe can stop bullying is to increase supervision in schools. Many acts of
bullying take place when no adults are around and it is a more one on one
thing. If there was more supervision in schools it would lower the chances of
it happening. Teachers need to start distinctly looking for kids that are
taking place in bullying; they could stop it before it even starts. Although
this is a great idea, there are also a few disadvantages. Not all bullying is
going to take place at school, it can also take place off campus or it can even
turn into cyber bullying, which happens on the internet. There are also not
enough teachers in schools to be able to supervise everyone that gets bullied,
some people will get missed and the bullying will still continue. There are
many different ways to at least improve the situation a little bit.
A solution that I think will help the situation is to
start anti-bullying clubs at every school. The club can be a happy environment
where kids can go and get help if they are being bullied. The club can be
students that have been through the experience of being bullied and can help
more personally then a teacher would have been able to. Also, if it is students
that are operating the program they would be able to notice a lot more bullying
because they will be with all of the kids during class, and even outside of
school, so they can see what is going on. Everyone has been bullied at some
point in their lives so there are many people that could join the club. I think
this idea should be brought up in many schools, starting in the high desert.
Every school in the high desert has some type of bullying taking place every
day. If we start these clubs, bullying can be minimized and the schools will
have a more welcoming atmosphere. It’s a great way to stop bullying.
I want to be the beginning of the end of bullying. It has
to start somewhere, and that somewhere can be at encore. I personally think it
would be a great idea to start a club for kids that are bullied. It can be a
safe place where no one will feel judged about anything, and kids can even go
to vent about a situation that is bothering them. If this plan worked, every
school in America could have anti-bullying clubs and there would be a lot more
control over bullying. Bullying needs to come to an end before it gets worse
and we lose more lives. The world would be a lot happier place if bullying were
non-existent.
