Lathan Daw Mrs.

Verdunn English 4/7b February 25, 2014

Bullying is something that should be avoided at all times, nobody should be bullied because of his or her actions, sexuality, or anything else.

I realized that bullying never has to do with you, its the bully whos insecure. Bullying is for people thats weak hearted and dont get any love at home, so they pick on people they know is not going to do anything. So let me explain why bullying is bad and we need to prevent more of these incidents.

Bullying happens in all type of ways, one way is cyber bullying. Cyber bullying happens on social networks like face book, twitter, and other websites. In one case, a girl name Rebecca Sedwick killed her-self because she was getting cyber bulled by students at her school. People cyber bully other people, because they hate on them and sometimes wish they could be them. Cyber bullying should stop because a lot of suicides are happening around the world and kids or teenagers arent safe in the world. I also believe people cyber bully because it makes them feel secret or anonymous, because the victim doesnt know who they are. I feel that this type of bullying is the scariest one of them all even though I dont condone bullying at all. As a whole we should prevent things like this from happening and help the kids that getting bullied so no suicides would happen. After Rebecca's body was found at the cement plant, her family said they believed she had killed herself because she was cyberbullied for a year-and-a-half by a group of her peers, the Lakeland Evening Ledger reported. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/rebecca-sedwick-tricia-norman-sue-thoseresponsible-for-death_n_4342994.html)

Another case of bullying is sexuality bullying. That deals with people who are gay, bisexual, or a transsexual. People with these types of sexuality get picked on or bullied the most because most people believe people shouldnt be gay. In my opinion I dont care about your sexuality its because everybody has his or her preference. About 25% of people that are with the Lesbian Gay Bi-sexual Transgender (LGBT) commit suicide because people dont accept their belief. A case like this happened in England with a boy name Ayden Keenen-Olson that

ended in his suicide because of his sexual preference (gay). He told his teachers and principle that he was getting called out of his name and racist comments but they all ignored them. He wrote letters about his problem being bullied before his suicide, expressing how he felt and how he was fed up with people picking on him. I feel if a teen talks to you about somebody bullying them, being gay you should act upon it before they do something dangerous and possibly taking their own life or maybe someone elses. I also feel that if you bully somebody because of their race, sexual preference or just because whatever the case maybe they are the confused individual. According to recent gay bullying statistics, gay and lesbian teens are two to three times as more likely to commit teen suicide than other youths. (http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/gaybullying-statistics.html)

Verbal and physical abuse also happens a lot in high school. Verbal abuse is the namecalling, spreading lies about people and other things. Bullies use verbal abuse to lower ones self- esteem and make a person feel less than what they are. They call them out their name; fat, ugly, short, etc, just for the person to fell bad. School officials should look into these types of abuse because these are harmful words that can harm a person deep down inside, these harsh words are being said to all types of kids, which could lead to more murders or suicides in the world. These types of things happen when teachers or parents arent around, because they know the victim not going to fight back. Teachers should pay special attention and take action if they should see or hear this type of abuse. The victims always feel like they do not matter, some cut themselves and become Emo. Physical abuse sucks because kids get cuts, bruises, and into fights because the bully wants to physically hurt them, which would only make them the weak person. To stop physical abuse, most schools should put more cameras up and listen to the kids that are getting bullied and stop telling them dont worry about it.

Another form of bullying is covert bullying. Covert bullying happens the most to people that are new to the school, and telling people not to hang with them. This type of bullying is also hazing, and that happens in sports and bands. People dont commit suicides cause of these types of things but they probably would leave the school and go somewhere else. In a case with a band member getting hazed and killed because people wanted him to do things because he was new to the band. Even though hazing is not harm of bullying its still wrong, and people think others dont like them because of how they get treated. Bullies that like to pick on the new people should get to know them first before picking on them because their probably a nice person but theyre only bringing people down. So we should stop covert bullying, cause this type of bullying hurts people feelings and never trust people again.

Bullying should be stopped and watched around the world because a lot of young kids are dying and committing suicides because people dont except them as who they are. The president should change some laws about people bullying Lesbians, Gays, Bi-sexual, or Transgender because theyre the ones living that life and other people are trying to ruin somebody live. Thats how I feel about bullying people that have a disability or something else in that category should not get picked on and that only shows that the bully is confused about their life, so we should stop bullying.

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