Bullying is a problem all around the world and affects many children and teens everyday. Sometimes the extent of bullying is so bad that teens take their own life, in attempt to get away from the cruel world. There are so many different ways that a person could be bullied such as through physically touching (punching, hitting, shoving or kicking) or cyber bullying (online bullying).In Transverse City Area Public School there has been some problems with two teens using twitter as a site to harm people's reputation. In this school they supply their students with net books as a way to help them be more involved in technology, like Bishop Kearney High School. Two twitter accounts were created @TCRumors and @TCGossipHurts to harm students image and say mean things about them. One girl tried to take a stand and not put up with people harming others, she was personally involved because she was mentioned on the site. She talked to a few polices officers but they all said that they couldn't do anything.She said "I realize that most adults don't take this kind of thing seriously. They look at it as something you can ignore, when in reality it is in your face."(Catilyn K.) The school district decided to handle it by creating a anonymous hotline online called "Be the Solution". This allows students to send this hotline the links or texts that are some how to connected to a form of cyber bullying and can take a stand and try to fix the issues.
A young fun, loving, caring, 14 year old boy took his life after being bullying about his appearance and his sexual orientation. Who has the right to judge other people, why should people be so cruel to another human being that the human being is willing to take their own life to get away from the pain and torture. This boy was Jamey Rodemeyer, he was a fun, life loving teenage boy who wasn't sure who he was in this world, but mean and cruel kids in his class decided to make fun of him and verbal abuse him.The police station that is involved with this case is debated whether or not to charge these kids who were involved in bullying this young man with criminal charges such as aggravated harassment, harassment, cyber harassment and hate crimes charges because there are currently no laws against bullying. Lady Gaga was Jamey idol he looked up to her and loved her music. She tweeted "Bullying must become illegal. It is a hate crime." and " I am meeting with our President. I will not stop fighting. This must end. Our generation has the power to end it. Trend it #MakeALawForJamey". Lady Gaga is helping and supporting this family in their time of need.There is a young girl, Whitney Kropp, whose lives in Ogemaw County,Michigan. who has recently been the victim of a bullying prank. Whitney has been recently voted to be part of their high school court at the prank. She won her the position, she was voted for this position to be funny to other students but in reality it hurt her. She said she has been bullied countless of times in the past. She has a positive attitude towards this and believes that it is only high school drama, she said it does hurt to know that she was put in this position as a prank. She didn't always have the positive attitude and one point she was so overwhelmed with this situation that she thought of committing suicide. Many people have stood out and had support for Whitney like a graduate, from the same high school, who made a you-tube video to support Whitney. Also her sister who is a senior at the same school who started the Facebook support page. The community she lives in paid for her dress, her hairdo and her dance ticket. Many people have took time to help support this young lady.
Sierra Hixenbaugh ,16 was young girl who hung herself because of persistent bullying. People would make rumors about her and call her horrible names that no one deserved to be called. Many people took a stand and wore purple on a certain day to show support for Sierra. The school Sierra went to,has current created an anti bullying policy and held a anti -bullying concert for everyone to take a stand and stop bullying. People are trying to prevent this from ever happening again.
After I read all of these stories about bullying and teens thinking the only way to get out of this horrible environment was to kill themselves it made me sick to my stomach. People that pick on others don't feel secure about who they are and what they do ,so they try to make others feel bad about themselves. I sincerely feel bad for all the teens and family of these teens who have been bullied and I hope that they have a better life. I think if everyone tries to put more focus on this matter we can all try to prevent this and stop all the harm that comes from these crimes. Everyone need to be kinder and more friendly to others and the world will be a better place. Lets all take the challenge of being kinder and nicer to people around us and to stop bullying from happening to our peers. Everyone deserves respect from each other. Be kind and respect to everyone.
Bishop Kearney has a policy against bullying that is a very effective system. Bullying is such a huge problem everywhere in the world, so we need to have consequences for those people who choose to bully just in case it happens. This anti-bullying policy helps the person being bullied and provides consequences to the bully.To some people the consequences such as being expelled or out of school suspension may seem too dramatic but i think that if we stand up to the bullies and prove to them that it is wrong people will change and bullying will start to decease.
Some quotes of students in my class are "Bullies are just insecure cowards standing up to them is all it takes" (Gabe.B) " Bullying hurts everyone. It hurts the victim and destroys the bully's soul" (Nick H.) " Bullying has gotten way to far out of control, it is happening everywhere and anywhere and it is becoming a global issue" (Meghan H.) "Bullying is lame"(Frank B.). These are some fantastic quotes from my fellow student.
My quote is Bullying is a huge problem in our society and legal action should be taken against those who bully others" (Me). I feel that if everyone stands up we can put an end to bullying and never have to experience a friend being harmed or taking their own life. Take a stand against Bullying.
