By Xavier M, 807
Bullying is a problem that we have in our society! For years, people have been bullying others. Personally I think that bullying is horrible. Nothing good can come out of bullying. Maybe people that bully have reasons for thinking that it is ok to bully other people. In this editorial, I will write about why people bully and what we can do to stop it.
Bullies have been around forever. You can find them everywhere. They are in offices, in factories, and especially in schools. According to endthehate.org a website that provides bullying statistics, it's estimated that 160,000 children miss school because they are scared of the local school bully each month. If you think boys are the only gender that bullies people, think again. While boys physically bully people, girls emotionally bully others. Unfortunately it's a fact that most bullying goes unreported. If bullying goes unreported it will just get worst until the innocent either become suicidal or bring guns to school to shoot a lot of other innocent people all because the bully went unreported.
Endthehate also estimates that more than 43 percent of students in middle school and high school avoid using the bathroom in school due to the fear of being bullied. Seriously, what world do we live in where you can't even use the school bathroom without being harassed by an idiot who thinks he’s better than you. My opinion is that adults should take action immediately. I don't care how; I just want it done. At the rate things are going, if adults don't do anything, then we might as well ask our parents if we could get home schooled because no one will ever want to go to school again.
The funny thing is that people don't bully us just because they think it's fun. Bullies act this way mostly because of their parents. Imagine that: one of our solutions is also the problem. At kidshealth.org it says that bullies act that way because they were probably bullied themselves when they were young or that they were harassed by their parents or other adults. "There’s also a possibility that the bully has a personality disorder that doesn't allow them to understand normal social emotions like guilt, empathy, compassion, or remorse. These people need help from a mental health professional like a psychiatrist or psychologist."
So in the end, bullies aren’t all bad, but they aren’t all good either. They’re probably just misunderstood. I still think bullies should take responsibility for their action, but at the same time you can't help but feel sorry for them. Still, I have a few sharp things to say to them. Parents should really try to help stop bullying, but at the same time I think the more that parents try to help, the more damage it might cause. The way I see it , this war will never end. As long as there are people who want to hurt others, as long as there are parents who won't take responsibility for their children’s actions, as long as students don't "snitch" on the people who hurt them, it will not stop. This is Xavier Joselyn Martinez, and as long as theirs bully's in this world, I will never be happy.
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