Bullying

Good morning my fellow bloggers. This past week I was assigned a presentation topic as a final exam project in my class. Going thru the process of finding information really had me interested and it became very emotional towards me. So today I want to discuss something that is very serious around the world in our schools. BULLYING!! I can seriously write more than ten pages about bullying. It is a big topic. So I am only going to talk about the importance of bullying. My definition of bullying is when someone is constantly picking on someone that they don't feel like they belong. from 2008-2009, there was a percentage rate of 28 students from grade 6-12 that were experiencing bullying. Also, in 2011 there was a percentage rate of 20 students from grade 9-12 that were experiencing bullying. Bullying is not just happening on our school grounds. There are actually three different types of bullying. One is verbal, for example name calling, teasing, taunting, and threatening to harm them. A second type of bullying is social bullying. Social bullying is when a bully tells other students to not be friends with that specific student, spreading rumors, and embarrassing that student in public. I can relate to this specific type of bullying because I did have this one girl on my softball team in college that tried to turn everyone against me and tell them lies about me. It is actually still going on in my last year playing, but this time the situation is different. She feels like a fool because the new athletes ignore her and are actually getting to know me. They like the person that I am. Before, all the other girls believed her and didn't want to get to know me one bit. But once a few of those girls did, they completely missed understood me. All I did was stay strong and stayed myself. And finally the last type of bullying is cyber bullying. Cyber bullying is bullying that takes place thru technology.

From the research I looked up, there are many ways to prevent bullying anywhere in your cities. A few ways to prevent bullying is that parents and teachers should have a huge role in encouraging their students to not be afraid to come talk to them as well as doing the things they love most in life. Since there is a lot to address please click here for more ways on how to prevent bullying. The final thing I would like to show you guys is this Bully video. This video broke my heart so much. Bullying stops here!! Today is the day you help someone that feels unwanted. Simply shake their hands or have a simple talk with them. Let them know they are not alone. As a whole, we can stop bullying! Everyone have a great day and remember let people know that they are not alone. Love you all!