Brooke Gonnelly Bullying in School

Any school you go to all over the world always has at least one bully. In fact 30% of kids in schools have been involved in bulling either by being the bully or by being bullied. That is over 5.7 million kids and that is only in the United States. Male and female bullying often differs. With females they are targets of rumors and sexual comments. Males are usually are bullied by being hit, slapped, or pushed. One study shows that 60% of kids who bully between grades 6-9 have at least one criminal conviction by the age of 24. For the kids who are bullied they deal with issues such as low self-esteem, not fitting in, depressed, anxious, insecure, and afraid.

What can we do to prevent this from happen in our schools? Increase teacher and parent involvement, creating very clear rules and punishments for students, involve every adult and student at the school including cafeteria workers, janitors, and crossing guards. Schools who followed these guidelines cut bullying by 50%.

When i was in school there was bullying all over. Some kids were bullied to the extreme and had to change schools. Mostly in high school bullying turned into the boys sexual harassing the girls. Of what I’ve witnessed and from personal experience the schools don’t do anything about the complaints because then it becomes a he said she said game. High schools definitely need to be more sensitive to the female student especially because immature boys sometimes go to far and there is no punishment for them.

http://www.safeyouth.org/scripts/faq/bullying.asp

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